By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent LYNDHURST – What started out as a public celebration of…
Month: August 2013
Alma agrees to pay
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent EAST NEWARK – A three-year legal battle between East Newark and…
Kearny boosts public safe rosters a notch
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Every time he’d pass the Midland Ave. firehouse…
Now he’s ready for nuptials
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A Kearny veteran was expected back home from…
Reports from the Kearny PD blotter
This is a public service announcement from Police Chief John Dowie to the residents of Kearny:…
Relax bulk rules for Passaic Ave., DCA says
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Unlike the neighboring town of…
Thoughts & Views: In praise of lousy prose
If you love good writing, you probably also love bad writing–providing it’s deliberately bad. It takes…
Mirroring real life in art: sex abuse & gangs
By Ryan Sloan Observer Correspondent (Updated) At 25, she’s already written two fiction books. And…
Author explores at-risk teen girls’ behavior
By Laurie Perrone Observer Guest Correspondent “Bad” is an intriguing young adult novel about teens overcoming…
Never too young to learn to dance
Now in its 17th year, Visions Dance Dance Studio of Kearny is offering a new…
Around Town
Belleville Tickets are now available for St. Peter’s Rosary Confraternity’s annual Communion Breakfast to be held…
Local hoop enthusiasts get tips from Hall of Fame coach Hurley
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It all started three years ago, when Ron…
Riverside County Park will be home to both NA, QP this season
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer If you take a drive around the area’s high…
A battle of champions in Lyndhurst, for a good cause
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It started out as a simple idea and blossomed…
Obituaries
George P. Blauvelt George P. Blauvelt of Bloomfield passed away on July 23 at home surrounded…
Score Mentors offer lifeline to Sandy-hit NJ businesses
While New Jersey continues to re-build in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, many small businesses are…
From ‘honor system’ to ‘palming’?
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – To scan or not to scan? That is…
KFD in top gear with new trucks
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A few weeks back, in our article about…
They’ll be studying in style this fall
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – When he heard that he’d be looking…
Mudflats cleanup starts in Lyndhurst
LYNDHURST – After many months of planning, it has begun. Great Lakes Dredge & Dock…
He’s in the money: $19M
It happened by accident. One of the regulars, as store employees describe him, came into…
Stacks of dirt will give way to garden
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – For years, the “yard” adjoining the Main Branch…
Thoughts & Views: This brand of ‘Tea’ too bitter for my taste
In the 1962 film, “The Manchurian Candidate,” a fictional right-wing U.S. senator named John Iselin takes…
Bull-fighter, bounty hunter & now author
Danny Duran has just about seen and done it all. In his adult life, he…
KPD blotter pawn stars
KEARNY – Police are “actively pursuing” a suspect accused of stealing personal property — including a…
Sleeping resident escapes peril, cops say
NUTLEY – An Oakridge Ave. resident had a close call during a drenching rainstorm in the…
Around Town
Bloomfield Bloomfield Public Library, 90 Broad St., announces its schedule for its Thursday and Monday Afternoon…
Veteran Palek named new boys’ hoops at Lyndhurst
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer Paul Palek was looking for a little change of…
Kearny’s Adamek returns to ring victorious
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It had been seven long months since Tomasz Adamek…
North Arlington hires Corsetto as new boys’ hoops coach
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer After spending nearly 50 years of his life in…