BELLEVILLE – It’s all systems go for converting the old Essex County Isolation Hospital multi-building complex and, more recently, Garden State…
Day: July 28, 2015
Thieves plunder garden
KEARNY – It’s not just the planters who’ve been hard at work at the Kearny Community Garden. Some produce…
A&P bankruptcy dooms supermarket
BELLEVILLE – Another area supermarket is being dealt a death blow. The Belleville Pathmark, located on Belmont Ave.…
LL parking? Tough call
NORTH ARLINGTON – With help from the borough and state, the Joseph Mellino Memorial North Arlington Little League field on…
Bizarre behavior leads to 2 arrests: KPD
KEARNY – Maybe it was the heat. Last week, which saw Kearny sweltering in torrid temperatures, found local cops with their…
Ripped returning for Woodstock Festival
LYNDHURST – Get ready for Woodstock redux. Well, that’s actually the second annual Woodstock Festival, co-sponsored by the Lyndhurst Youth Performing…
Hearing-impaired teen wins scholarship
NORTH ARLINGTON – A North Arlington teenager who overcame profound hearing loss to graduate high school as an honor roll…
Thoughts & Views: The kindness of strangers
Why is there a photo of the Geico gecko accompanying this column? Because he is my alter ego. At least…
WE’VE GOT MAIL
‘LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT I MEANT’ To the Editor: I write to explain my position that the…
Killer of Kearny teen gets life in prison
KEARNY – The Pennsylvania man who murdered 16-yearold Alishia Colon in her Belgrove Drive home in 2013 was sentenced Friday…
Burglar surprises sleeping teen: cops
KEARNY – A Newark man was arrested in the early-morning hours of July 18 after allegedly burglarizing a ground-floor…
C.S. Osborne donates shade trees to town
HARRISON – Several of the pride and joy of C.S. Osborne & Co. are no more. The longtime…
around town
Belleville Mayor Raymond Kimble and the municipal council sponsor an Ecuadorian flag raising in celebration of Ecuadorian Independence Day, at Town…
4 new officers join township’s Finest
BELLEVILLE – One is following in the footsteps of three family members. Three have prior law enforcement experience. But…
Little girls get taste of hoops at Kearny camp
Most local basketball camps are of the coed variety, but they really don’t offer young girls much of a chance…