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Best friends, WWI veterans, get new headstones
BELLEVILLE — At 9 a.m. on Memorial Day, the bells of St. Peter’s Church on William Street…
Kearny professor pleads guilty to fraud
NEW YORK CITY — Mamdouh Abdel-Sayed, a tenured lecturer at the City University of New York’s…
Local athletes honored for their sportsmanship; NA’s Hutchinson, Lyndhurst’s Radigan named ADs of the Year
WEEHAWKEN – Every year, the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference holds a very unique luncheon honoring the…
WRITER’S RAVE REVIEWS
HARRISON — First-grader Michael’s fascination with children’s author Jay Isip’s “Dynomike” series stems from the fact…
Friends, family raising funds for the late Vitorino Cirne
By Kevin Canessa More than two weeks after the death of Vitorino Cirne, 51, the Lyndhurst…
Nutley’s baseball team advances to NJSIAA North 2, Group III semis
There’s an old baseball saying that big players come up big in big games. It’s definitely…
KHS art show dazzles
KEARNY — A wing of the South Building at Kearny High School filled with objets d’art on…
Former Kearny BOE payroll clerk faces new charges, HCPO says
Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez has released the following information: On Monday, May 21, 2018, Gina…
10 new cops on Kearny streets
By Ron Leir rleir@theobserver.com KEARNY — For Matthew Knighton, the choice of law enforcement as a…
Body pulled from Passaic River is missing postal worker Cirne
KEARNY — The body of a 51-year-old Lyndhurst man, a letter carrier with the Kearny Post…
Street Feast moved from Marina indoors on John Miller Way
Because of predicted inclement weather, the Kearny Street Feast scheduled for this Saturday, May 19 (known…
THE (VERY) OLD BALL GAME
If you were anywhere near Boys’ Park at Yanticaw Park in Nutley Saturday afternoon, May 5,…
Amid fanfare, FedEx opens its new North Arlington location
There was pomp and circumstance in North Arlington last week as FedEx Freight officially opened its…
KFD purchases thermal-imaging cameras with FEMA grant
By Kevin Canessa Here’s a scenario we’ve all probably faced at one point or another. You…
‘BRAVEST MAN I KNEW’
By Karen Zautyk Earlier this month, historian/writer Timothy Daudelin, a former Belleville resident who is a…
Pavers offered for entrance to KHS
KEARNY — Wanna buy a brick? As the Kearny Board of Education prepares to tackle the…
Remembering the Rev. Msgr. John J. Gilchrist
By Kevin Canessa The Rev. Msgr. John J. Gilchrist, who spent much of his priestly life…
KPD searching for missing man, Rogelio ‘Rollie’ Mendez, 40
The Kearny Police Department seeks the public’s help in locating Rogelio “Rollie” Mendez, a 40-year-old man…
CLIMBING THE LADDER
KEARNY Four Kearny Fire Department promotions took effect on April Fool’s Day but you’d be a…
East Newark school chief resigns
EAST NEWARK — For Patrick Martin, it was always about the kids. That’s what brought him…
DEVELOPING NEWS: Lyndhurst cops searching for missing 51-year-old man
The Lyndhurst Police Department is actively conducting a missing-person investigation. Vitorino Cirne, seen in the photo…
Generics v. Brands
If you take any kind of medication — for whatever the reason — chances are you’ve…
Kearny crime rate continues to drop
KEARNY — The Kearny Police Department has released its Uniform Crime Report Index for 2017, and the…
Kearny hoops awards dinner brings former Net O’Koren to speak
For all intents and purposes, it was not a season to remember for the Kearny High…
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Swimming fees lowered by Lyndhurst commissioners
By Ron Leir rleir@theobserver.com LYNDHURST — No matter last week’s nor’easter, March 20 marked the first…