State: Distracted-driving incidents total 1.4 million

By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent The statistics are mind-boggling. From 2004 to 2013, 1.4 million motor…

Moving day is coming

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Even Steven Shalom, who has run Discount City in…

Going out in style with Blue Ribbon

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – You could say Ron Shields’ career as a Harrison…

For the sake of the Passaic

By Karen  Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY– Plastic lawn chairs, propane tanks, wrought iron railings, pipes, dead…

Nothing stops her

By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent Harrison’s Blanca Alvarez was sick with the flu the morning of…

Unsung heroes in our midst

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – The Harrison American Legion Post 282 salutes Joseph…

His swift response saved a life

  NUTLEY – An off-duty Nutley cop has been credited with coming to the aid of…

Habitat back in business in Kearny

  KEARNY – The long dormant Hudson County Habitat for Humanity International project site in Kearny…

Tribute to Rogers, Spectra Colors

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – The Salvation Army of Greater Kearny will honor…

Frank Riposta achieves top honors

  Century 21 Semiao & Associates announced that Frank Riposta, of the Kearny branch office and…

KPD: TVs or more TVs?

If one were inclined to speculate, one might say that two alleged shoplifters collared at Walmart…

Around Town

Belleville Belleville Elks Lodge 1123, 254 Washington Ave., hosts its monthly breakfast on Sunday, April 27,…

Abdo named 5-year top listing associate

  Maggie Abdo, sales associate with Century 21 Semiao & Associates Lyndhurst office, was named top…

Coccia’s Hughes wins NJAR award

  Jan R. Kwapniewski, president of Coccia Realty, with offices in Northern New Jersey, announced that…

Nutley police blotter: MV stop leads to drunken-driving arrest

April 12 A motor vehicle stop at a Franklin Ave. location, at 1:54 a.m., resulted in…

1.7B to clean Passaic’s lower 8 miles

  NEWARK – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last Friday, April 11, that it…

Lost medal recovered from Pa.

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – For more than two decades, it sat –…

Feds won’t pay for more firefighters

Two neighboring West Hudson communities have been shut out in their bids to snag federal funding…

Tribute to a teacher

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Fred Kuhrt died doing what he loved best…

Play ball! (and politics, too)

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – Saturday’s opening ceremony for the North Arlington…

News in brief

HARRISON – Harrison Mayor James Fife, 73, is spending time in St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark,…

Nutley Scouts to the rescue

  By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent NUTLEY – The temperature was bone-chilling and the rain was…

Town has new health officer

  KEARNY – Kenneth Pincus is Kearny’s new health officer. Pincus, a resident of Warren, was…

The long arm of the law

      By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Kearny police reported last week that…

KPD: ‘Knock, knock’ was no joke

  On April 4, at 6 p.m., pursuant to an ongoing narcotics investigation and armed with…

Washington Ave. crash

      Photos by Ron Leir A NJ Transit bus emerging from the company’s Washington…

Around Town

Belleville Belleville Public Library and Information Center, 221 Washington Ave., holds a Teddy Bear Tea Party…

Bixler takes on Oti as new realtor

  Magi Oti   Scott Bixler, broker of record, is happy to announce that Maggy Oti…

Work progressing at Rip Collins Field

  NORTH ARLINGTON – Construction of the new Rip Collins Athletic field complex in North Arlington…

Lyndhurst police blotter: Man hardly got it his way at BK after drug charges

April 4 At 7:16 p.m., police went to the parking lot of the Park Ave. Burger…