Annual Kearny senior citizens’ picnic is June 14

All Kearny senior citizens are invited to attend the annual Senior Picnic, sponsored by the Mayor,…

Homes of the Brave

EAST NEWARK —   The Borough of East Newark covers a grand total of 0.102 square miles…

Archdiocese ordains 7 new priests

Seven men were  ordained to the priesthood for service to the Archdiocese of Newark on Saturday,…

‘It’s all about the reading’

EAST NEWARK — A visit from a children’s book writer, free books and new book cabinets.…

New occupants for old parish schools

  KEARNY – The moribund parish school campus of St. Cecilia in Kearny will be seeing…

KPD: Say ‘hello’ to our little friend

We start this week’s Kearny blotter with an incident that occurred in another town. According to authorities,…

Owner ordered to clean up boat yard

KEARNY – It looks like the last voyage for the old Rapp’s boatyard. Since the yard…

To jump-start your imagination … read

Several years in the making, the project was no flight of fancy — but the final…

Sketch leads to arrest of suspected burglar

BELLEVILLE — A Newark man is in police custody in connection with an overnight Belleville home…

Vikings prove that seeding means nothing in NJSIAA playoffs

The NJSIAA baseball playoffs began last week and things didn’t exactly look rosy for the Vikings…

Harrison’s Gaus a multi-sport dream

If you ask Maciej “Mack” Gaus what his favorite sport is, the Harrison High School senior…

That (Confederate) flag’s not still there …

Well, it only took about 24 hours, but the Confederate Flag in North Arlington we told…

‘I don’t want to discuss this’

If you’ve taken a ride along River Road in North Arlington near the Belleville Turnpike recently,…

New commission roster in place

LYNDHURST — Lyndhurst’s five newly elected township commissioners were sworn into office at a reorganization session in…

Cooking up a storm at new HHS kitchen

HARRISON — There’s nothing half-baked about Harrison High School’s newly completed culinary kitchen. Three years in…