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…

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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…