KEARNY – A fire in a three-family home at 90 Johnston Ave. last week was declared under…
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Belleville’s hidden history
BELLEVILLE – If you were in the vicinity of the historic Belleville Dutch Reformed Church at Main…
Labor peace achieved with Harrison firefighters
HARRISON – Members of the Harrison Fire Department have averted both a Newark takeover and a…
Raptors at risk from methane flame
LYNDHURST – In recent years, the Hackensack Meadowlands has drawn both humans curious about nature and…
Monumental undertaking for Explorers
HARRISON – For those Harrison eighth-graders who had never before set foot in the nation’s capital,…
KPD: The right to bare legs?
At 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 14, Officer Michael Alvarez was on patrol at Kearny Ave. and Rose…
Fashion & art & Goodwill
HARRISON — Well, they did it again. “They” being Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern…
They give their all for you …
LYNDHURST – The Township of Lyndhurst is painting part of the community red and blue in…
Utility planning upgrades in area
KEARNY – New Jersey’s biggest utility wants to run an underwater power line from Newark to…
‘Security’ man robs local bank: HPD
HARRISON – The Harrison Police Department is seeking a man who robbed a local Kearny Bank…
ALERT: Trucktoberfest canceled Saturday, Oct. 22
The Kearny PBA Local 21’s Trucktoberfest, scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 22, has been canceled because of…
Lucky 13 join Kearny’s bravest
KEARNY – Now there will be three. If she makes it through training, Haley Girdwood will…
New effort to redevelop Porete Ave.
NORTH ARLINGTON – More than a decade after several south Bergen communities were battered by…
KPD: It wasn’t just a bad dream
Shortly before 5 a.m. on Oct. 7, a resident of the 400 block of Elm St.…
HPD: Gas station robbed again
HARRISON – A local service station targeted by robbers earlier this year has been hit once…
Looking to buy … but no sale yet
EAST NEWARK – It appears that the Borough of East Newark is taking steps to acquire…
Driver saved from burning auto
KEARNY — A motorist caught in a burning car beneath a tractor trailer on the Belleville…
Bravest try to save animals, too
KEARNY – This story does not have a happy ending. Animal-lovers may want to skip it…
Vikings enjoying second life in Bergen tourney
The North Arlington High School boys’ soccer team has survived a season thus far that…
ABOARD THE MARY DAY – A reporter’s travel to Maine
By Ron Leir ABOARD THE MARY DAY – You needn’t call me Ishmael but I admit…
Ladders & engines & red, white & blue
Sights from the Kearny Fire Department’s Open House from Saturday, Oct. 8. All images by Karen…
Should Clara Maass pay property taxes?
BELLEVILLE – The Township of Belleville has retained a high-powered law firm to challenge the tax-exempt…
KPD: Oh, brother (and sister)
The call came in as a man randomly picking fights with people in the area…
Fumes send KHS kids to hospital
KEARNY – It all started innocently enough when a teacher opened a window to get…
NPD: Be wary of utility scammer calls
NUTLEY – Calls to Nutley residents claiming to be from PSE&G are likely scams, especially when…
Local businessman under a cloud
BELLEVILLE – He operates cigar stores but his questionable business dealings may leave those enterprises in…
Fla. teen arrested in BB incident
KEARNY — Shortly after 8 p.m. on Oct. 1, Kearny police headquarters began receiving reports of a…
Public input sought on Passaic Ave. spans
And now, the next chapter of the long-running Passaic River cleanup story: a design study. It…
New homes going up in Kearny’s Second Ward
KEARNY – A new residential development was approved by the Kearny Planning Board on Sept. 7.…
Peden Terrace: two-way or one-way?
KEARNY – Probably the steepest hill street in Kearny and one of the most difficult roads…