Kearny crime rate continues to drop

KEARNY — The Kearny Police Department has released its Uniform Crime Report Index for 2017, and the…

Kearny hoops awards dinner brings former Net O’Koren to speak

For all intents and purposes, it was not a season to remember for the Kearny High…

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LOST & FOUND

By Karen Zautyk KEARNY — This is the story of a ship that sailed from Kearny…

Swimming fees lowered by Lyndhurst commissioners

By Ron Leir rleir@theobserver.com LYNDHURST — No matter last week’s nor’easter, March 20 marked the first…

DeGise announces termination of medical-services provider contract in response to yet another inmate suicide at Hudson jail

Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise made the following statement after more than three hours of meetings…

KPD: Drug deal could have been lethal

At 12:52 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, Kearny patrol officers responded to a report of gunfire at…

GETTING HIS DUE … FINALLY

BELLEVILLE — At the intersection of Belleville and Franklin avenues stands the imposing building that was once the…

Doomed NYC helicopter took off from South Kearny: reports

A helicopter that crashed into New York City’s East River Sunday, March 11, killing all five…

Obituaries for March 14, 2018

Manuel Vila Manuel Vila, 79, of Harrison, died March 9, 2018, at home. Visiting was at…

Belleville names Johnson as new football coach

Belleville High School hasn’t enjoyed a winning season over 20 years. The last season that had…

LYNDHURST GOES ‘STIGMA FREE’

LYNDHURST — Fact: 1 in 4 Americans will be, at one point in their lives, diagnosed…

Red Bulls unfurl new Argentine superstar Kaku

HARRISON — His given birth name is Alejandro Romero Gamarra. But in international soccer circles, he…

Kearny gets another state wrestling champion in Cardenas

It didn’t take long for Kearny’s last state wrestling champion to recognize the talents of the…