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Nearly full day spent quelling marsh fire
KEARNY – Firefighters last week spent nearly 24 hours in the marshes behind Gunnell Oval, combating a stubborn brush fire…
2 area towns getting Fire Dept. assist grants
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D- 9th), chairman of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, announced that the U.S. Dept. of…
Turfing project forges ahead
Kearny is moving ahead with plans to turf Veteran’s Memorial Field along Belgrove Drive. Applied Landscape Technologies of Montville – hired…
Kearny boys’ soccer: No room for error this time
The Kearny High School boys’ soccer team enjoyed a magical run last fall in the regular season and Hudson County…
Visions Dance Studio now offers tumbling
Starting its 19th year, Visions Dance Studio, located at 202 Midland Avenue (corner of Davis and Midland Avenue) in Kearny, is…
Kearny Health officials looking for dog that bit local man
Health officials are on the lookout for a dog that badly injured a man in Kearny’s…
Cadets get upclose lesson on 9/11
KEARNY – Last week, we wrote about the Kearny Police Department’s Junior Police Academy and the 50 dedicated cadets who…
Overseas mission for teacher
KEARNY – Before she returns to her teaching job at Kearny High School next month, Jennifer Hansen will be…
Better late than never on court safety
KEARNY/HARRISON – Maybe the state should throw the book at them. Nine years after the N.J. Administrative Office of the…
Burglaries top KPD blotter news
Kearny police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly burglarized two Kearny Ave. businesses in the overnight hours…
Help keep kids safe
The Kearny Police Department Traffic Bureau is reminding residents that Kearny public schools will reopen Thursday, Sept. 10. The KPD…
They can dance with the best
Visions Dance Studio of Kearny is proud of its competition team and knows the importance of…
Another mulch fire erupts
KEARNY – Firefighters from Kearny and North Arlington battled a stubborn fire over the weekend at a meadowlands mulch company where fires…
Saluting Junior Police
KEARNY – Last Thursday evening, 50 youngsters — ages 11-13 — received their diplomas as proud graduates of the Kearny…
Landfill on short leash?
KEARNY – Kearny is preparing to give a big meadows tenant the boot. Letters have gone back…
Short-staffing spells OT woes
KEARNY – Town officials are seeing red around the Kearny Fire Department but it’s not flames that have their…
On Kearny Ave., unwanted attention
KEARNY – A 32-year-old man was arrested last week after he allegedly accosted a 14-year-old girl on Kearny Ave. and…
Kearny actor featured in NYC production
If you’ve been a long-time reader of this newspaper, you’ve no doubt, at one point or another, read a…
Deer sighted in Kearny! Inside Lincoln School!
KEARNY – Pop quiz: 1. Which of these animals is NOT native to New Jersey? A. Muskrat…
Former Kearny resident Oyola pens book about faith
James Oyola cherishes the time he spent growing up in Kearny. “We moved to Kearny from New York when I…
Flying crime fighter
KEARNY – Huge crowds showed up for Kearny’s annual National Night Out Against Crime observance Tuesday, Aug. 4, from 6…
New officers settle in at S.A.
KEARNY – They’ve only been in town for a little more than a month but Lts. Hwang and…
One field facelift starts, 2nd in wings
KEARNY – Conversion of Veteran’s Memorial Field off Belgrove Drive in Kearny, from natural grass to artificial turf, with associated…
Notes from the KPD blotter
A man wanted on a child-neglect warrant ended up in the Hudson County Jail last week after arresting officers found a…
Kearny’s Meola returns as one of Red Bulls’ all-time best
HARRISON – It had been a while since Tony Meola had attended a soccer match at Red Bull Arena,…
Finally, funding for firefighters
KEARNY – The fourth time was the charm for Kearny’s Bravest. It took a lot of persistence, and maybe…
New leader, new uniform, new windows
KEARNY – Having spent four weeks getting readjusted to her old workplace, Kearny High School interim principal Linda Rocco is “thrilled…
Estimated 3rd quarter tax bills going out
KEARNY – Kearny property owners should be getting their third quarter 2015 property tax bills shortly – not that they’ll…
KPD: Nothing you’d want to see
A walk in the park turned out to be anything but for a woman and her 4-year-old daughter on Friday,…