By Jennifer Vazquez Observer Contributor BELLEVILLE – Hurricane Katrina struck roughly seven years ago. Aside…
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Testing the ‘waters’ of controversy at Nutley’s Liquid Church
By Jeff Bahr Observer Correspondent Liquid Church, a Christian worship group that adheres strongly to…
‘80s dance at Kearny LCCC for scholarship fund for late Kardinal wrestler
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer In February of 2003, Kearny High School wrestler Dawayne…
Fighting foes by feeding bellies during ‘A Month of Hope’
By Jeff Bahr Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – The Rev. Kenneth Reihl, senior pastor of…
Kardinal grid squad looks to improve after tough loss
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It wasn’t exactly the season opener that the Kearny…
QP’s Golden Griffins: Rising from the ashes
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The 2012 high school football season was rapidly approaching…
Maroon Raiders start Basile era with solid win over rival
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer After ascending into the head football coaching role at…
Making room for little ones at Veterans Park field
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent EAST NEWARK – Soccer is catching on with the younger…
Happy surprises when a host family becomes an extended family
By Jennifer Vazquez Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Globalization is a reality of modern times. People…
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By Jeff Bahr Observer Correspondent With automation buzzing through our culture like a chainsaw through wood,…
Fourth Annual Fashion’s Night Out will take NYC by storm Sept. 6
By Jennifer Vazquez Observer Contributor Mark your calendars and prepare your most fashion forward outfit…
Blue Tide gridders look to forget about past
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer Harrison High School head football coach Dave Nankivell knows…
Family Service Bureau finds a new home in Kearny
By Jennifer Vazquez Kearny – Family Service Bureau of Newark, a comprehensive mental and…
Local orthodontist embraced by his peers
By Karen Zautyk When New Jersey Monthly magazine came out with its annual list of…
Lyndhurst cook sizzles at/on Hell’s Kitchen
By Jeff Bahr LYNDHURST – The thing that struck me most during my recent meeting…
Huge turnover in Blue Tide roster, but same results expected
Harrison to be force in local soccer as always By Jim Hague Mike Rusek begins…
Harrison girls’ soccer team looks to improve
By Jim Hague When Annemarie Sacco took over the Harrison High School girls’ soccer program…
Golden Griffin girls’ soccer: Movin’ on up
By Jim Hague A few weeks ago, actor Sherman Hemsley died. He was best known…
It’s ‘chill’ time for Friendly House project
BELLEVILLE – The township’s Friendly House project is back on track. About two weeks ago Township…
North Arlington football: Looking to move up
By Jim Hague Although the North Arlington High School football team struggled to a 2-8…
Pro Staff Physical Therapy comes to Kearny
By Jeff Bahr Pro Staff Physical Therapy, a full-service provider…
‘Getting Gassed’ by ‘big oil’
“Getting hosed” is a slang term popular in the American vernacular. I don’t suppose I have…
Belweder: little Polish deli ‘round the corner
By Jeff Bahr Sometimes a jewel…
Camp Fatima: Bringing Harrison closer together for a cause
By Jim Hague LEBANON TOWNSHIP – The brown sign off the eastbound lanes of Route…
Kearny’s Koziel racks up medals at National Junior Disability Games
By Jim Hague If you think Michael Phelps was impressive in collecting medal after medal…
Abromaitis returns as QP athletic director
By Jim Hague When Ed Abromaitis was a teenager growing up in Kearny in the…
Pro Wrestling to stomp on Belleville
By Jeff Bahr Belleville will be treated to raucous larger-than-life physical theater (ouch!) when all-star…
‘The only thing we have to fear…’
When President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the above words during his 1933 inaugural address, he was…
Grandmaster Marchetti: Pride of Kearny
By Karen Zautyk Well, whaddya know? The pen really is mightier than the sword. Or…
Schoener named Kearny boys’ hoops coach
By Jim Hague After spending the last four years as the boys’ head basketball…