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Confessore calls it a career
HARRISON – As one longtime administrator leaves, a new one enters at the Harrison Board of…
Getting into the spirit of the paranormal
How do you get 130+ high school students to sit in absolute silence, listening with rapt…
Kearny Rec creates policy for transgender participants
KEARNY – Given the recent action by the Secaucus chapter of the Boy Scouts of America…
‘Remember, Jon, there’s another carpenter (up) there’
KEARNY – An overwhelming sense of loss. That was the obvious sentiment that prevailed at the…
KPD: Victim helps nab burglary suspect
At 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7, Kearny police received a report of a burglary in progress…
2 motorcycles stolen from 1 township man: NPD
NUTLEY – Two motorcycles parked in their assigned parking spaces at a River Road apartment complex…
Water fails test but is OK to drink
BELLEVILLE – It happened in 2015 and, again, in 2016. As per a Dec. 29, 2016…
DOT to brief SKIA on traffic changes
KEARNY – Local business owners will huddle with state transit officials this week to learn about…
LPD seek 2 in Bridge Exxon holdup
LYNDHURST – Two suspects were being sought in connection with the armed robbery of a service…
4 charged as deli-nquents
KEARNY – In the Dec. 28 edition of The Observer, the headline on the KPD…
Kearny grapplers move on after losing their mentor
It was the first week of December and the Kearny High School wrestling team was just…
I-280 westbound traffic shift begins this weekend
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials remind motorists that a long-term traffic shift on I-280…
Martin Luther King Jr. flag-raising Jan. 16
BELLEVILLE — Mayor Raymond Kimble and the Township Council sponsor the third annual Dr. Martin Luther…
Kearny Second Ward Councilman Giordano dead at 50
KEARNY – Kearny Second Ward Councilman Jonathan Giordano died Saturday, Jan. 7. He was 50. Giordano,…
Cardinal Tobin takes throne as Archbishop of Newark
NEWARK – Amid great pomp and circumstance and musical fanfare, Cardinal Joseph William Tobin was installed…
Tougher standards for food trucks
LYNDHURST – It’s a real enough potential danger to what extent propane tanks in mobile food…
Arena tax deal costly, but town still gains
HARRISON – At long last, the sticky tax case is in the books – but it…
Keeping lid on taxes priority for ’17: Santos
KEARNY – Getting a grip on a pattern of rising local property taxes will continue to…
Jeweler’s killer gets life in prison
The Bloomfield man convicted of killing a Kearny jeweler during a robbery more than seven years…
KPD: Out with the old, in with the old
In Kearny, the 2016 blotter ended with yet another shoplifting, this one at ShopRite, and this one…
FieldTurf playing sites under review
KEARNY – The Kearny High Kardinals football team plays its home games on it. In Lyndhurst,…
Call it a case of instant ‘carma’
KEARNY/HARRISON – From the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up comes this story of a…
280 east ramp to Parkway exit 145 emergency closure Jan. 5
The New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) announces emergency maintenance work requiring the temporary closure tomorrow…
Dawn of a new Wittpenn
KEARNY – Don’t expect to see planes taking off and landing on the new Wittpenn (Rt.…
Attack victim, 25, succumbs to injuries
The 25-year-old Kearny woman who was brutally attacked by an East Rutherford man Dec. 17 has…
Only bidder will fix firehouse
KEARNY – It was the lone bid submitted but the town went with it. At long…
New librarian at the helm
BELLEVILLE – A somewhat circuitous path brought Michelle Malone to the Belleville Public Library in…
KPD: From one lockup to another
Back on Sept. 2, Kearny police were called to a Bergen Ave. apartment complex on a report…
Panel: Keegan’s worth $7.88 million
KEARNY – Here’s a holiday fable that’s guaranteed to knock you for a loop. Remember the…