A rift in the ranks

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – Only four months after the Lyndhurst First ticket…

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…