The intervention of what Police Chief John Dowie called “two very good concerned citizens” aided a police officer in the arrest of a man who had assaulted him on Kearny Ave. last week, authorities said. According to police, the incident began at 4:30 p.m., Monday, April 29, when Officer Ben Wuelfing was called to a [...]

Two men are under arrest in connection with a violent assault on a man in Nutley on April 27. Police said they responded to a Franklin Ave. location, at 1:55 a.m., on a report of a medical call. There, they said they found a man with a bloodied face, spitting up blood, claiming to be [...]

Belleville The Belleville Middle School Fine and Performing Arts Department is proud to announce its upcoming Spring Concert series. On May 15 the 7th and 8th grade choirs will perform selections of “Living on a Prayer,” “Man in the Mirror” and highlights from “Les Miserables.” The band, orchestra, and jazz band will take the stage [...]

  The New Jersey Association of Realtors (NJAR) has recognized 11 Coccia Realty agents as inductees in its Circle of Excellence Award for the year 2012 for Coccia Realty’s local offices of Rutherford, Lyndhurst and Kearny. The recipients for the Bronze Level were: Zoraida Alonso, Louise Bloomer, Gerardo Coppola, Beatrice Goldberg, Carol Hanson, Carol Hughes, [...]

  By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Next month, the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Newark, will be the setting for a Mass of Thanksgiving in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the ordination of the Rev. Msgr. Francis R. Seymour, KHS (which in this case, despite this story’s dateline, does not stand [...]

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Big Brother is watching you in Kearny … from the sky and from the ground. For added security, the town has installed 11 additional surveillance cameras on Public Service utility poles around town, and the Police Department monitors the traffic in real time on computer screens at headquarters [...]

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – What began as a call last week to break up a street fight ended with one of the combatants hospitalized, three Kearny police cars put out of service, three officers assaulted, their uniforms and much of their personal police equipment contaminated beyond salvaging, and the cell block and [...]

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – ‘Way better!” That’s how Harrison eighth-grader Joseph Renderos contrasts the lunches being served up now at Washington Middle School with the bad old days when kids waited for food service workers to ship over meals prepared some six blocks away at Harrison High. And classmate Luis Hurtado likes [...]

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Last fall, Franklin Elementary School – where Yvonne Cali serves as principal – implemented the Positive Behavior Support in Schools program designed to recognize good behavior by students. Now Cali may be wondering if the same principle can be extended toward her employers – members of the Kearny [...]

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent BELLEVILLE – In a split vote, the Belleville governing body has picked the Riefolo Construction Co. to redevelop the old School 1 property for residential use. On April 23, the mayor and Township Council selected Riefolo over its rival bidder, Group D Capital Partners I, which had pitched a “retail, [...]