By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer HARRISON – Real Salt Lake striker Alvaro Saborio had…
Category: News
Purple graffiti artist has cops seeing red
The purple painter has left his or her mark on Lyndhurst. Police are investigating three incidents…
News from the Nutley Police blotter
July 26 At 1:26 p.m., police responded to a home alarm call at a Whitford Ave.…
Nutley cops, mayor battle it out
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent NUTLEY – Nutley cops, armed with a giant inflatable rat…
Hudson nets 589 guns in buyback
Hudson County residents turned in a total of 589 firearms during the state-sponsored gun buyback…
She ‘delivered’ cocaine, now she gets jail
A Lyndhurst woman, a former U.S. Postal Service employee, has been sentenced to 46 months in…
How can you resist these loving creatures?
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST– Tucked beneath some green awnings at 221- 223 Stuyvesant…
Civilian dispatchers coming aboard soon
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – One year after the town designated East Orange to…
Borough enacts long-term financing plan
NORTH ARLINGTON – In a move that the Democratic majority says will save taxpayers money…
Revised recycling strategy in Belleville
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent BELLEVILLE – Starting Aug. 1, the Township of Belleville will be…
KPD blotter: 100 degrees, 106 calls
At 7 a.m. last Wednesday, July 17, the Kearny Police Department logged its 15,000th job for…
Highlights from the Nutley Police blotter
July 18 The representative of a company that delivered goods valued at more than $4,000 to…
Around Town
Belleville Belleville Elks will hold a Type O blood drive, open to Belleville and the surrounding…
PVSC repairs sewer line
Last week, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission closed off part of Schuyler Ave. near the Harrison/Kearny…
BOE faces suit from one of its own
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – And on goes the war. Kearny Board of…
Faulty span delaying dredging
LYNDHURST – The dredging of the contaminated Lyndhurst mudflats on the banks of the Passaic…
Fatal shooting probed by Essex prosecutor
BELLEVILLE – A July fatal shooting in Belleville July 9 is being investigated by the Essex…
Detectors key to safe evacuation
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Working smoke alarms were credited with helping to save…
Big bang in Nutley still a mystery
NUTLEY – Authorities are investigating an outside explosion that took place at 8:45 a.m. Saturday, July…
Spring opening for new health center
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – April 1, 2014, is the projected target date…
Portuguese monument pitched for park
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – As the town’s newest section of waterfront parkland…
Township, schools will share lawyers
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – The N.J. State League of Municipalities says it hasn’t…
This eagle will ‘fly’ at the Capitol
Three area students were honored for accomplishments recently by members of Congress from their representative…
‘Huffing’ his way into trouble, 3 days in a row
KEARNY – Perhaps you are familiar with the word already, but your correspondent was not, and…
Around Town
Belleville The Belleville Irish American Association is sponsoring a trip to Wildwood/Smithville/ Ocean City/Atlantic City/ Cape…
Suspected armed robbers caught in Nutley
Shortly after 9 p.m. Sunday, July 14, police responded to Park Drive on a report of…
News from the Lyndhurst Police blotter
July 6 An effort by police to disperse youths continuing to hang out after a township…
The span of memories
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – In the middle of the day on…
Assessing Sandy’s handiwork
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Now that Kearny has a permanent tax assessor,…
New look for town’s police fleet
HARRISON – If there’s ever another superstorm like Sandy – and climate experts are predicting…