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Kearny boys beat Union City, 3-2, for second straight county soccer title
Najarro’s 2-goal spurt the di fference for Kards, first-ever repeat champs HARRISON – In the seven-year history…
Lady Kards capture soccer championship
HARRISON– It’s getting to the point, now, where the Hudson County Girls’ Soccer Tournament might just need to be renamed the…
Russo apts. renting at fast pace
KEARNY – For Joe Tornielli, it ranks as a great discovery. The manager of a Ramsey-based department store…
Racing for ‘Best in Class’
KEARNY – It’s off to the races for 34 Kearny High School juniors and seniors. Students in Victor…
KPD: In the wrong at ShopRite
A shoplifting suspect escalated the charge against him from theft to robbery last week when he allegedly assaulted two ShopRite employees…
Kearny driver dead after GSP accident
A Kearny man was killed in the aftermath of a single car accident on the Garden State Parkway…
Kearny Bank hosts business program
In an informal talk to business leaders at Kearny Bank headquarters in Fairfield. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas Bracken touted two…
Kearny boys’ and girls’ soccer teams move on to Hudson County finals
There’s a good reason why Kearny has the impressive moniker of “Soccertown, USA.” Soccer has been the predominant sport for…
Kearny’s Ruela heads Rutgers-Newark women’s soccer
Although she’s still just 25 years old and not that far removed from her playing days at Kearny High School, Ariana…
A bridge too old gets new life
KEARNY/NORTH ARLINGTON – Two infrastructure projects are moving forward in the West Hudson/South Bergen meadowlands area, one involving motorists using Rt.…
Inferno on the Turnpike
KEARNY – A tanker truck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline crashed on the N.J. Turnpike in Kearny last week,…
KPD: From a beer to a drug bust
A man drinking a can of Budweiser on the street led last week to the arrest and subsequent incarceration of…
‘Old Time Radio’ classics presented by W.H.A.T.
W.H.A.T. (West Hudson Arts & Theater Co.) kicks off its fifth season with the second annual “A Tribute to…
Klepacki returns home as new rowing vessel named for him
KEARNY – The greatest rower in the history of the Kearny High School crew program returned home Saturday, as the…
Pooches at the ready for ‘Pawrade’
KEARNY – Get your favorite pooch into the Halloween spirit at the 2nd annual Kearny Doggie Halloween PAWrade and Festival,…
Video shows tanker truck that exploded yesterday trying to avoid mattress on NJ Turnpike
A stunning video taken by Kevin Hauer shows the tanker truck that exploded yesterday on the…
Eastwood in Kearny for ‘Sully’
KEARNY – Hollywood came to Kearny again last week in the person of veteran film personality Clint Eastwood. Eastwood, who…
Their futures are bright
KEARNY – Melanie Bendezu is just a 12th-grader but already pondering a possible career as a surgeon. Fellow senior Eddie…
Congrats to Bixlers on new arrival
Another member of the Bixler Group has arrived! Parents Scott and Kathleen Bixler welcome Colin Scott Bixler. He was born…
KFD welcomes all to Open House
TOP photo courtesy KFD, remaining photos by Karen Zautyk Scenes from the Kearny Fire Department’s…
Prayers for the pets
KEARNY – If things continue thus, people are going to start bringing fish to the Blessing of the Animals…
KPD: In parking lot, a lot of drugs
Surveillance of a suspicious car in the Walmart parking lot paid off big time for the Kearny Vice Unit last…
Kearny parade moves to Halloween
KEARNY– The town’s annual Halloween Parade arrives early this season … or rather, on time, depending on how you look…
Concern over ‘non-standard’ KHS shirt
KEARNY – Public school officials are cautioning Kearny High School students and parents to refrain from doing business with an…
Kearny man found dead on RR tracks
A young Kearny man was found dead on the PATH tracks in Jersey City late Friday night, police said. Port…
Town’s lone movie house is history
KEARNY – That’s all folks! The closing credits have rolled at Kearny’s remaining movie theater, leaving West Hudson communities without any…
A garden grows
KEARNY – The transformation is pretty much complete: Lincoln Middle School’s courtyard is now fully equipped with an outdoor “green infrastructure”…
KPD blotter: The little Purple Pill
On Sunday, Sept. 20, at approximately 9:45 p.m., the proprietor of the CVS store at Schuyler and Bergen Aves. reportedly…
Cops grab accused serial burglars
KEARNY/LYNDHURST – Two men have been arrested in connection with at least 25 commercial burglaries across Bergen, Hudson and Passaic…