Top news stories reported in 2011

    Compiled by Jeff Bahr & Anthony Machcinski January New Year’s 2011 literally came in…

New ‘high-end’ digs coming soon?

  By Ron Leir HARRISON – Another real estate project is on the drawing board for…

Cops, Firefighters get X-mas gift

By Ron Leir KEARNY – For cops and firefighters expecting to lose their jobs or to…

The Ups and Downs of 2011

  By Lisa Pezzolla As the clock ticks down to the New Year, we all like…

A New Year’s resolution worth keeping

This year, people will make and swiftly break their New Year’s resolutions. It’s hardly surprising given…

News from the Kearny Police blotter

The lucrative business of illegal scrapping got four Newark men arrested in Kearny on December 14.…

Harrison Police Blotter

Dec. 19 Someone pried out the driver’s side door lock to a 1999 Ford van while…

Entertainment Year In Review

  By Anthony J. Machcinski From rock to rap and from paper to canvas, this area…

Readers spread holiday cheer

  In the December 7th edition of The Observer, we asked all of our readers to…

Around town

Belleville Go to the Belleville Public Library’s website at www.bellepl.org to download a wide selection of…

2011: The Year in Sports

Kearny’s Adamek contending for heavyweight crown & Lyndhurst’s Rono capturing two gold medals top local sports…

Building good Karma

We have all heard wise people preach that the things we do today are like the…

There really are ways to dig out of debt steadily

  Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan often losses both itself and friend,…

Obituaries

Gertrude DiElmo Gertrude DiElmo, 93, died on Dec. 18. Born in South Orange, she lived in…

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