By Ron Leir KEARNY – This past spring, Kearny was pushing for…
Year: 2012
‘Hit-man’ case nets guilty plea
By Karen Zautyk A Lyndhurst woman, accused of attempting to hire a hit man to kill…
Junior cadets get law enforcement lessons
By Karen Zautyk A concerned Kearnyite called The Observer early on Tuesday, July 31, wanting…
Fall term will see makeovers at Washington Middle School …
… plus some roster & course additions at high school By Ron…
N. Arlington assault leads to ‘Bad Bloods’
By Ron Leir NORTH ARLINGTON – An incident in North Arlington ultimately led…
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…
Belleville Blotter
August 9 Officers responded to the 70 block of Watsessing Ave. at 3:27 p.m. on a…
Belweder: little Polish deli ‘round the corner
By Jeff Bahr Sometimes a jewel…
News from the Nutley Police blotter
Aug. 8 At 1:54 a.m. police stopped a vehicle going at an excessive rate of speed…
Around Town
Belleville St. Peter’s Rosary Confraternity is holding its communion breakfast on Oct. 7, after the 8:30…
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…
Obituaries
Virginia DeArmas Virginia DeArmas died suddenly on Aug. 5 in St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark.…