KEARNY – Matt and Timothy Farias are practicing being brothers’ keepers. Sure, they’re brothers but it goes far…
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NPD: Help us find two armed robbers
NUTLEY – Police here continue to search for two men they say allegedly robbed a Dunkin’…
Tragedy on Kearny Ave.
KEARNY – At 6:50 a.m. last Thursday, Jan. 26, Kearny police received a 911 call reporting a…
NAHS partners with Sandy Hook Promise
North Arlington High School, in partnership with Sandy Hook Promise, a national, non-profit organization led by…
Justly deserved honor for patriot Phil Kearny
KEARNY – Standing orders have arrived per digital dispatch: U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Philip Kearny, commander…
Scary drug facts to go with your coffee
BELLEVILLE – It was billed as “Coffee with a Cop,” but there was a lot more…
BOE pitching $66M referendum
NUTLEY – If Nutley property owners want to support a plan to relieve overcrowding in the…
No replacement yet for the late Jon Giordano
KEARNY – As of last week, no candidate has yet surfaced to fill the Second Ward…
KPD blotter: N.J. bail reform at work
At 1 p.m. last Wednesday, Jan. 18, Officer Luis Moran responded to Bergen Ave. and Elm St.…
Small raises for 2 employee groups
KEARNY – Some Kearny municipal employees are now members of the 1%. No, they’re not part…
A trifecta for Kearny cops
KEARNY – Interesting day for the Kearny PD on Thursday, Jan. 12. Officers recorded three separate arrests…
4 years for ‘stolen’ car scam
HARRISON – A 27-year-old Harrison man has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role…
WiFi hotspots available from LPL
LYNDHURST – Township residents who don’t have Internet access at home just got a great gift…
Blue Lines Matter!
By Karen Zautyk Last year, as a symbol of support for their police officers, towns across…
PSE&G prepared for Monday storm
PSE&G is preparing for the approaching storm system that could bring heavy rain and gale-force winds.…
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…