KEARNY – When the Kearny municipal government held its 2016 reorganization last week, they did it in style, with…
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Do your antiques have value?
KEARNY – Get ready to comb through all that stuff you’ve been storing in your attic or china closets.…
Seeking to keep aid, lose watchdog
KEARNY/HARRISON – Two West Hudson communities currently receiving transitional state to help offset property tax impact are looking to get…
KPD: It’s deja vu all over again
If the guy in the photo looks familiar, that’s because his mugshot adorned the Kearny police blotter in our Dec.…
Suspect didn’t have a prayer of escaping
KEARNY – When Kearny police, having travelled to Newark on the hunt, apprehended a suspect in two town muggings, he…
BOE inks 2 union pacts; teachers waiting
KEARNY – Two more school employee groups were placed in the fold last Monday, Dec. 21, as the Kearny…
Combatting ‘hate rhetoric’ in a big way
KEARNY – A local industrialist is responsible for a billboard erected along Truck Rt. 1&9 in Kearny that decries anti-immigrant sentiment,…
5 area creches robbed of Baby Jesus statue
Baby Jesus statues were stolen from Christmas Nativity displays set up at two churches in Kearny, and from church grounds in…
‘All life is precious’
KEARNY – The latest rescue equipment acquired by the Kearny Fire Department cost only $109, but to animal-lovers, it…
‘They gave it their all’
KEARNY – They gave it their all in a six-week “heat,” but, alas, they lost the race. Kearny…
Is KHS project ready now for final go-round?
KEARNY – The Kearny Board of Education has received a new round of bids to complete the long-delayed high school…
Dogged pursuit of park victory for canines
KEARNY – He’s only a 13-year-old Lincoln School biped, but Nate Jablonski, a Star Scout with Troop 305,…
KPD: We’re not in Clifton anymore, Toto
Of late, there seems to have been a spate of incidents involving drivers found asleep at the wheel. The latest…
Retirements force town to borrow $1.5M
KEARNY – While Kearny’s municipal payroll is getting a bit lighter from a surge of retirements, the town is still…
News in Brief …
NORTH ARLINGTON/EAST NEWARK – Residents of two Observer communities will shortly be seeing new faces in the police ranks.…
Sentencing for Kearny man put off again
NEWARK – A Kearny man who admitted playing a role in a $13 million mortgage fraud scam will be…
Hometown ‘Legends’
“Legendary Locals,” just released by Arcadia Publishing, focuses on the residents -- famous and not --…
Family Success Center up & running
KEARNY – Prevention Links’ Liberty Family Success Center, the 53rd such state-funded facility in New Jersey, has begun operating in…
Kearny native competing for ‘Top Chef’
Karen Akunowicz remembers making an apron in the seventh-grade at Lincoln School in home economics class back in 1991. “We used…
KPD: Now, a front-row seat — in jail
Remember the man from last week’s blotter who was reportedly found sitting in one of the cinemas at the now-closed Lincoln…
Burglary suspect also combative: KPD
An East Newark man was remanded to the Hudson County Jail on $15,000 bail last week on charges including burglary and…
Official: Crash ‘looked a lot worse than it was’
If you were stuck in traffic on the Belleville Pike, or Kearny Ave., or Ridge Road,…
Clarification: Band, choir won’t perform at Kearny Walgreens’ grand opening
In a story we published last week, we were told by officials from Walgreens that a…
Chamber of horrors?
KEARNY – Like many other older communities with combined sanitary and storm water sewers, Kearny is facing a new federal mandate…
Walgreens open for business
KEARNY – It took demolition of two homes, the old Lynn Chevrolet showroom/service center, The Irish Shop and former Teddy’s…
KPD: He lost his shirt at Walmart
At 10:30 a.m., Nov. 19, KPD Officers Pete Jahera and Jon Dowie responded to a report from Walmart that a…
News in Brief
BELLEVILLE – A Belleville man has been sentenced to two years in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for…
Getting in the spirit of the season
Photos by Barbara Goldberg Kearny’s annual Holiday Tree Lighting Festival was held last Thursday night. Sponsored…
Santa makes appearance at Mid-Realty last weekend
Santa made an appearance at Mid-Realty last weekend and took photos with children — and the…