Belleville, Kearny ready to give new football league a chance
The new-fangled Super Football Conference that Nutley’s Joe Piro will head will also feature two other…
QPHS gets anonymous $500K donation
NORTH ARLINGTON — First, Queen of Peace High School met the challenge of raising a million dollars…
A case of marijuana munchies?
KEARNY — This job is so educational. While it is common knowledge that marijuana can…
Search continues for man who jumped into Passaic River to avoid HPD
Where is Keith Jean? That’s what police continue to ponder after Jean jumped into the Passaic…
Summer session ‘enriches’ kids
HARRISON – This has been the sixth season of enrichment for Harrison school children. During a…
Court says NJSEA can take dump; Kearny to appeal
KEARNY — Don’t believe everything you’re told — unless you get it in writing in an…
A quiet, tree-lined drug bust
LYNDHURST — A township couple was arrested last week at their Summit Ave. home in connection with…
New command set at Belleville PD
BELLEVILLE — He was installed as the leader of the Belleville Police Department only a few…
Harrison’s website back online
HARRISON – Harrison’s municipal website, which was taken down July 7 after hackers attacked the site,…
Leadbeater, others, ordered to repay $3M+
KEARNY — Former Kearny Board of Education member and ex-Councilman John Leadbeater has been ordered to…
DeVita takes new job in Cedar Grove, resigns Kearny BOE position
KEARNY – Soon he’ll be trading in his Kardinal logo for that of a Panther. Michael…
KPD: Fidgeting is dead giveaway
Last Thursday, July 28, Officers Chris Manolis and Jon Dowie were on patrol at Bergen and…
Dumb & dumberer
KEARNY – This is the sort of story that cries out for mugshots, but, alas, we cannot…
Arrest in Belleville vehicular homicide
BELLEVILLE — Two months after the tragedy, a 19-year-old Bloomfield man has been arrested on a charge…
Woman, 67, victim of strong-arm robbery: NPD
A 67-year-old woman was the reported victim of a strong-arm robbery on St. Mary’s Place late…
‘O brave new world . . . .’
By Karen Zautyk More evidence (as if we needed any) that the world is going mad:…
GUEST COLUMN — Cop’s fear: ‘Vilification for something I do’
By Capt. Timothy Wagner Kearny Police Department Special to The Observer I recently gave the following…
Obituaries for Aug. 3, 2016
Mary Rosamilia Mary Rosamilia (nee Casciano), of Harrison, died on Monday, July 26, at Alaris at…
In Kearny, soccer never loses popularity, evidenced by camp
Make no bones about it. Alexa Teixeira and Julia Viscuso are the best of friends. Both…
QP survives, gets new AD, new grid coach
The Queen of Peace alumni wanted to be heard by the Archdiocese of Newark and let…
Kearny United U15s reach national championship game
Jimmy Harkes has been the coordinator and coach for the Kearny United youth soccer program for…
I-280 eastbound bridge over Martin Luther King Boulevard traffic shift necessary this weekend for bridge replacement in Newark
New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT) officials today announced a traffic shift of I-280 eastbound, and…
Light rail train, SUV collide in Belleville
An NJ Transit Light Rail train collided with an SUV in Belleville this morning, causing one…
The night the world exploded
JERSEY CITY — In Liberty State Park, with its views across New York Harbor to where the…
Final chapter of KHS renovations?
KEARNY – It’s all systems go for what the Kearny Board of Education hopes will…
Town scores Red Bull revenues
HARRISON — Municipal officials in Harrison will never know which way the state’s highest court was…
When the web walls came tumbling down
HARRISON – Behind the digital walls, the keepers put up the good fight. But the relentless…
Accused bike thief ‘smoked’ out: HPD
HARRISON — A weary traveler is getting an ill-deserved rest now … with some assistance from…
Distracted driver in hit-run: HPD
HARRISON – A man reportedly involved in a hit-and-run on July 15 was subsequently arrested on…
Tried to make clean getaway: police
HARRISON — He had an appetite for starch — for both his stomach and for his…