By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – Only four months after the Lyndhurst First ticket…
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Funding for Owens Park seems assured
NUTLEY – It was a close call for more than a year but the Nutley Township…
6,759 salutes to the fallen
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – If you have been were driving on…
BOE awards new contract for KHS work
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – After little activity since March, the Kearny High…
Town: No traffic flow change for Afton St.
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – With the winter – and sledding – season…
HUD, landlords settle bias allegation
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – The landlords of two North Arlington apartment buildings,…
5 firms vying for redevelopment counsel
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent NUTLEY – Five law firms are in the mix to become…
Forecast for bike fun: Fair in Kearny
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – From 1 to 4 p.m. this Saturday, Sept.…
KPD blotter: 8 cans of tuna to go
Recent Kearny Police Department blotters have contained a number of shoplifting reports, usually involving something like…
Around Town
Belleville Confidential documents will be shredded for free on Community Shred Day (Belleville residents only) on…
Nutley police blotter: Suspect sought was already in jail
As a result of a joint criminal investigation with the Lyndhurst P.D., Nutley Police detectives have…
‘Where angels play’
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – It has been nearly a year since Hurricane…
Joyous time for Bravest
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Last Tuesday’s heavy agenda meeting of the Kearny…
Guil pleas in med lab bribe scheme
A physician with an office in North Arlington and a Lyndhurst man employed by a diagnostics…
Through tragedy comes treasure
By Anthony Coelho Observer Intern September 11 is a date that will ring an…
Neither snow nor rain nor toxic threat
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – When we first received notification of a U.S.…
It could have been so much worse . . .
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A simple afternoon errand at Walmart on Friday,…
St. Cecilia’s feeling pastoral gap
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A Catholic parish in Kearny has lost two…
Dentistry on wheels arrives in Kearny
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – It’s 37 feet long, weighs 12 tons, and…
Reports from the Kearny Police blotter
A 45-year-old Kearny man was cooling his heels in the Hudson County Jail last week after…
5K KHS run deemed a success
KEARNY – You might say running is in their blood. That’s clearly the case for the…
Around Town
Belleville Confidential documents will be shredded for free on Community Shred Day (Belleville residents only) on…
They got tools; still need firefighters
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – The federal government has rejected an application by…
‘Log-in’ required at KHS
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – When they started the fall term last Thursday,…
McDonald bid to keep presidency misfires
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Bernadette McDonald’s effort to retain the presidency of the…
As if it were yesterday . . .
Can it really be 12 years already? A dozen years since the morning that changed…
Arrested in 160G cell-phone scam
A Nutley man and two from Passaic residents were arrested last Thursday, Sept. 5, by…
Funding in hand for new senior apartments
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – Finally, after nearly five years of scrambling…
KPD outreach to help the autistic
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Families with children — or adults — suffering…
Rec Center opens doors to pre-schoolers
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent EAST NEWARK – In a move some might interpret as…