4th year for CANstruction

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent  KEARNY –  Several years ago, Paul Rogers of Kearny visited a unique exhibit in…

$3.7M deficit confirmed

BELLEVILLE –  Well, now it’s official. An audit of the Belleville Board of Education for the 2013-2014 school year…

Medical school will be Roche tenant

By Ron Leir  Observer Correspondent  NUTLEY –  Roche USA, the Swiss-based pharmaceutical company that is marketing its 118-acre property…

Fitzhenry picked for vacant seat

By Ron Leir  Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON –  Republican loyalist Brian Fitzhenry was rewarded for his longtime service to…

Murder-suicide & more: NPD blotter

Details remained sketchy in the wake of what law enforcement agencies characterized as a murder-suicide on Hillside Ave. in Nutley last…

Drug suspects indicted

KEARNY –  Three suspects — one from the Bronx and two from Kansas — arrested by N.J. State Police…

Township gets 3 new cops

LYNDHURST –  The Lyndhurst Police Department has three new members. Officers Michael LeStrange, Steve Batista and John DeCamp were sworn in…

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…

Cops nab suspect in church burglary

A man who police described as the “primary suspect” in last year’s theft of a sacred relic – since recovered…

‘Ninja Turtles’ slowed up drug suspects

Two East Orange men who abandoned their car in a Kearny intersection following an accident ended up in the county…

Suspected ‘batter’ busted & more: KPD

You can credit a sharp-eyed Kearny police officer with the arrest last Thursday of a Harrison man wanted in connection…

Fatal shooting ruled suicide by police

KEARNY –  The death of a 60-year-old Garfield man, found mortally wounded in his car in Kearny last week,…

around town

Bloomfield  Bloomfield Public Library, 90 Broad St., hosts a Book Club meeting Feb. 2, 6:45 to 7:45 p.m., in…

Lyndhurst North Arlington wrestling co-op moves forward

By Jim Hague  Observer Sports Writer  Mike Goff is in his third year coaching the Lyndhurst-North Arlington High Schools…

QP boys’ hoops: Getting better with time

By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The Queen of Peace boys’ basketball team continues to work its way through…