A story in the Jan. 13 issue of The Observer about a fire at Plaque Art…
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Today’s vocabulary lesson
Ready for another column on the Great War? (I warned you I was fanatical about it.) This won’t deal with…
It only takes a cartoon
In the aftermath of the massacre at the satiric French publication Charlie Hebdo and, subsequently, the attack at a kosher…
Thoughts & Views: A lion among leaders
In its editorial euology last Friday, my alma mater, the N.Y. Daily News, referred to Gov. Mario Cuomo as…
‘The Interview’: Why did they even bother?
Having been exposed to all the hype over Sony Production Co.’s limited release of “The Interview,” I say, “Thanks, but…
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NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS FROM THE FIRST COUPLE To the editor: On behalf of my wife Cathy…
All was calm, all was bright
In December 1914, the troops of the Allies and the Central Powers have been in combat for several months and…
CORRECTION
A story published last week in The Observer misstated the school district where former Lyndhurst school…
Home for the holidays
With the holidays fast approaching, I know I speak for all my colleagues at The Observer when I wish all…
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‘PROMOTE BELLEVILLE KIDS’ Through the years I have always been interested in Belleville’s school children and schools. I…
Thoughts & Views: A time for remembrance
Do you know anything about the S.S. Leopoldville? That’s a rhetorical question, because odds are you don’t. As Christmas…
Thoughts & Views: The real lesson of Thanksgiving
Well, another Thanksgiving has passed and another U.S.A.-made myth has been celebrated about how the Pilgrims made nice with the Native…
Thoughts & Views: ‘Phishing’ season is year-round
In my spam folder, there are currently 15 emails: two ostensibly from EZPass telling me I owe toll money;…
Thoughts & Views: Playing the name game
What’s in a name? Plenty if it happens to be Avery Fisher, for example. That’s the name that – for now…
Thoughts & Views: The debt we owe is forever
The poem that accompanies this column was found among the papers of the late Luke A. Kenney of Nutley. I…