Feds helping pay for new fire pumper

  By Anthony J. Machcinski Nutley The Nutley Fire Department will get a much-needed update now…

News briefs from the local area

EAST NEWARK A trouble-plagued bar in East Newark was ordered shut for six months by the…

FiKus brings new genre to Donegal

  By Anthony J. Machcinski As music continues to constantly evolve as years go by, one…

Five Lyndhurst natives leading Paramus Catholic ice hockey team

  By Jim Hague When you think of Lyndhurst and the vast amount of talented athletes…

Light at the end of the tunnel for NA girls’ basketball squad

  By Jim Hague The high school girls’ basketball season wasn’t exactly going as planned for…

Kearny’s Gomes has 1,000 reasons for having a solid season

  By Jim Hague The high school basketball season was reaching the midway point and the…

Make that connection

There are certain people you meet in life with whom you strike a chord almost immediately.…

Optimist player is inspiration to his team

  By Anthony Machcinski With all the negative events that occur every day, every hour, and…

Neighborhood watch goes high tech.

  By Ron Leir HARRISON — Anthony De Oliveira had just driven home from a shopping…

Added dimension not needed

While writing “Out and About” pieces during the summer, I stopped in to see the 3-D…

In Memoriam – Ken Russell

  By Jeff Bahr Kearny — Kearny lost one of its most beloved citizens on Friday,…

Harrison Police Blotter

Jan. 24 Harold Gadsden, 33, of Harrison, was arrested on a traffic warrant issued by North…

Young Artists featured at NJCU

  Anthony J. Machcinski America has been called the land of opportunity, a place where people…

Lyndhurst keglers capture Bergen County title

  By Jim Hague When the high school bowling season began, Lyndhurst head coach Michael Rizzo…

A great idea for retirement savings

  By Randy Neumann Recently, a client came in to discuss a retirement idea. Someone told…

Online Exclusive: Nutley Police Blotter

Nutley Police Blotter Jan.29 Police went to a Hancox Ave. residence at about 1:50 a.m. where…

Be the star of your story; put yourself on tape

By Jeff Bahr Bloomfield resident Gene Nichols is teaming up with the Bloomfield Public Library in…

U.S. Marine “pee party” is hardly surprising

It spread across the news outlets like free beers at a “kegger.” Four American Marines had…

A cancer survivor, chef now cooking up a storm

By Anthony J. Machcinski Kearny — Just think, if only for a minute, what it might…

Belleville enjoying best boys’ hoop season in recent years

  By Jim Hague Ted Sochaski fondly remembers his glory days as a basketball player at…

Four generations of local flavor as Giants head to Super Bowl

  By Jim Hague By now, unless you live in a clandestine remote location like Tibet…

Lyndhurst’s Alonso becomes dominant inside force for Golden Bears

  By Jim Hague A year ago, Camila Alonso was a little used sophomore on the…

A fight in East Germany

By Randy Neumann  In early May, I was reading the Wall Street Journal while on a…

Obituaries

Randy Barkowski Randy Barkowski died on Jan. 17 in St. Michael’s Medical Center. He was 56.…

Another supermarket folding

  By Ron Leir KEARNY — Kearny is losing a supermarket. The Pathmark store, located next…

WE’VE GOT MAIL

To the Publisher: Just read Senator Lesniak’s letter in The Record calling their opinion opposing Internet…

Buccaneer grapplers off to great start even as coach wrestles with lineup

  By Jim Hague Joe Nisivoccia has been the head wrestling coach at Belleville High School…

QP’s Maurer comes through in the clutch

By Jim Hague The Queen of Peace boys’ basketball team had lost Jim McLane, one of…

Harrison scores windfall in tax rulling

    By Ron Leir HARRISON – The New York Red Bulls major league soccer team…

Nutley residents gear up for 2012 Wellness Challenge

  By Ron Leir NUTLEY – A lot of people probably wondered why the heck Maria…