Another Bulger moves up the ladder

KEARNY – A veteran member of the Kearny Fire Department moved up in the ranks last…

Letter: Davis Ave. toughed out the snow

To the Editor: The Friday before the snowstorm of January 2016, the Davis Ave. residents received…

Bully for a presidential bear!

By Karen Zautyk The cartoon that accompanies this week’s column is by Clifford Berryman and first appeared…

Purloined pooch found as investigation continues

KEARNY — The talk of this town last week was the 12-week-old puppy reported stolen from a local…

KPD: From ABC to CDS at local pub 

On Feb. 8, KPD detectives from the Vice/Alcoholic Beverage Control unit paid a visit to the…

Leadbeater sentencing postponed … for the 4th time

NEWARK – For the fourth time in the last eight months, the sentencing of a former…

Obituaries for 2 March 2016

Phyllis M. Hodkinson, Alice A. Olcott, Danielle D. Quiam, John Joseph Garrison & Margaret Hacker. Click…

Joseph becomes QP’s all-time scoring leader

Before he ever enrolled in a class at Queen of Peace High School, Jeremy Joseph made…

Belleville’s Grant comes home, presents school with Super Bowl football

The scribe Thomas Wolfe once penned “You can’t go home again.” Well, even though it was…

Lyndhurst’s Arvanitakis shoots her way to record book in final games

When Joanne Arvanitakis first tried out for the Lyndhurst High School girls’ basketball team, she almost…

Purloined pooch found

The puppy stolen this week from a Kearny pet store has been recovered by the Kearny…

Harrison’s next big thing

HARRISON — Concerns about energy issues and parking garage design involving a proposed 260-unit residential project in…

Meet & greet inner-city pups this Saturday and perhaps walk away with a new pet

KEARNY – This Saturday, Feb. 27, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., there will be a very…

Garage at NA NJ Transit depot?

NORTH ARLINGTON — As part of its plans to help revitalize the southern end of its commercial…

New charter school will have 30 teachers

KEARNY — Hudson Arts & Science Charter School, slated to open this September at the site of…

Letter to the Editor: Great job plowing Harrison’s snow

To the Editor: We are writing because we think it is important for the people to…

Brodeur and the Mets: Perfect together

Aside from the race for The White House, which I am never going to address on…

Most in LPD getting pay hikes

LYNDHURST — The Lyndhurst Township Board of Commissioners voted last Tuesday to give raises to members of…

KPD: Juvenile behavior

Shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb 12, Officers Michael Santucci and Esteban Gonzalez were dispatched to…

HPD looking for robbery suspect

The Harrison Police Department is investigating a strong-arm robbery of an out-of-town man who was reportedly…

NPD Chief: Beware of ATM skimmers

Nutley’s Police Chief is warning residents to be aware of ATM skimmers that can steal a…

Obituaries for 23 February 2016

Dolores C. Polo Dolores C. Polo (nee Galladay) passed away peacefully surrounded by her loving family…

QP crowns five champs at District 15; other local teams fare well

When Mike DiPiano took over the Nutley High School wrestling program from his brother, Frank, he…

Lyndhurst, NA earn NJSIAA state bowling titles

They might be fierce neighboring rivals in most sports and even share a working co-operative in…

NA’s Velez proves that hard work does pay off

After averaging about six points and four rebounds per game last season as a reserve, Steve…

GATE program opened at Midland Ave. BOE location

Kim Kayak’s fourth-graders were engaged in a creative problem solving lesson: figuring out how to “write”…

Dow and Cleveland Sts. designated John M. Hoar Way for Belleville man killed in Vietnam

BELLEVILLE – He was a slender, freckle-faced lad of 20 when he – like so many…

Kearny officials mull changes to handicapped parking permit procedures

KEARNY – The Town of Kearny is re-thinking its approach to the way it allocates spaces…

Grape Street Crips ‘leader’ charged with 4 murders, 3 attempted murders, other crimes: US Attorney

  BELLEVILLE —  A 39-year-old Belleville man, the alleged long-time leader of the Grape Street Crips,…

Stakes in race for POTUS even higher now following Scalia’s death

  The stakes in the U.S. presidential contest have just escalated to a new level, now…