Nutley starts grid season with style
Maroon Raiders win opener, 62-12 Nutley High School head football coach Tom Basile knew that the 7-3 record that…
Blue Tide girls’ soccer: Moving forward
When Raphael Viana took over the Harrison High School girls’ soccer program last year, coming back to coach girls’ soccer at…
Kearny football turns to new coach Kryzanowski
After spending the last 12 years as an assistant under three coaches with the football program at Kearny High School,…
Value Act Cleaners opens in Kearny
Newark-based Value Act Cleaners plans to shake up the competition by offering a low-price strategy and same day service…
Obituaries
Elizabeth Ann Claxton “Beth” passed away peacefully at home on Sept. 7. She was 56. Born in Montclair,…
Diamond Jubilee
KEARNY – This Sunday, Sept. 13, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, at Davis and Bergen Aves., will mark its…
Showdown looming on O.T.
KEARNY – Town officials and union representatives are still grappling over what to do about finding overtime pay for Kearny…
Prepared to party hardy
BELLEVILLE – Once again, Belleville is getting ready to party. On Wednesday, Sept. 16, Mayor Raymond Kimble and the…
Courtyard at Lincoln School going green with urban garden
KEARNY – As fall classes resume this month, there’ll be a new look to Lincoln Middle School as it…
See WTC beam during NA 9/11 observance
NORTH ARLINGTON – A steel beam recovered from the WTC, donated to the North Arlington Volunteer Fire Department by the…
Driver nabbed in highway hit-run
A Belleville man was being held in the Bergen County Jail on $100,000 bail following his arrest last week on…
KPD: Truck was weapon, fuel was vodka
Shortly before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, Officer Jay Ward was directing traffic in a work zone at Schuyler…
We’re all in this together, folks
As we hurl headlong into another presidential nomination cycle, it’s an opportune time for all of us to step back…
CORRECTION!
A story about the fish exchange program in The Observer’s Aug. 26 issue contained two errors.…
3 robbery suspects collared
KEARNY – A Saturday night party in a Quincy Ave. backyard morphed into a crime scene Aug. 29 when…
around town
Belleville The Township of Belleville will hold its “We Remember Sept. 11, 2001” ceremony on Friday, Sept. 11, at…
Men’s Wellness Day upcoming at SMMC
St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, hosts a “Men’s Health and Wellness Day” in partnership with the American Cancer Society and…
Vikings hope to stay healthy, more competitive this season
The 2014 high school football season was rolling along for the Vikings of North Arlington. They had just won their…
Amid turmoil, QP’s grid team trudges on
It has not been an easy offseason for the Queen of Peace football program. First, former head coach Bob Kearns,…
Lyndhurst boys’ soccer: dramatic improvement in 2015
Denis Jelcic begins his second season as the head boys’ soccer coach at Lyndhurst High School, knowing full well that the…
Obituaries
Lawrence Davidson Sr. Lawrence J. Davidson Sr. passed away on Monday, Aug. 31. Arrangements were by the Thiele-Reid Family…
Correction
A story about the fish exchange program in The Observer’s Aug. 26 issue contained two errors.…
100 years of memories
HARRISON – Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president. War raged in Europe and the Luisitania was sunk. Stateside, Alexander Graham Bell…
Farewell to the ‘Voice’
KEARNY – “The Voice of Kearny” has signed off. Diane Malley, who made the scene at the Kearny…
A Heaven ¢entopportunity
KEARNY – Many have been in a situation like this one — especially since 2009 when the Great Recession…
The evidence is in … lots of it
On the evening of Aug. 24, the Kearny Police Department received multiple calls from residents concerned about a plane that was…
Displaced flag poles & more: NPD
A Washington Ave. resident told police he found two, 7-foot metal poles with American flags attached to them on his lawn…
KPD: Temper, temper . . .
A local man was arrested last week and charged with criminal mischief after he was allegedly involved in an assault…
New play surface; possible park do-over
One municipal playground is due for a partial facelift and another may be in line for a full makeover. Lyndhurst…
Thoughts & Views: To celebrate wretched writing
In 1982, the English Department at California’s San Jose State University launched the annual Bulwer- Lytton Fiction Contest, inviting deliberately “wretched writers”…