Around Town

Belleville Confidential documents will be shredded for free on Community Shred Day (Belleville residents only) on…

Young Maroon Raider squad learning on the fly

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The Nutley High School boys’ soccer team is off…

QP girls’ soccer: Counting on veterans

    By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer   Mike Flynn has been the girls’ soccer…

Harrison’s Huseinovic makes sure that Blue Tide finally gets a win

  By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It had been quite some time since the Harrison…

Then & Now

    The intersection of Kearny and Midland Aves. still resembled a rural crossroads when this…

Obituaries

Robert W. Balmforth Robert W. Balmforth, 67, of Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., formerly of Kearny, passed…

Nutley police blotter: Suspect sought was already in jail

As a result of a joint criminal investigation with the Lyndhurst P.D., Nutley Police detectives have…

‘Where angels play’

  By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – It has been nearly a year since Hurricane…

Joyous time for Bravest

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Last Tuesday’s heavy agenda meeting of the Kearny…

Guil pleas in med lab bribe scheme

A physician with an office in North Arlington and a Lyndhurst man employed by a diagnostics…

Through tragedy comes treasure

    By Anthony Coelho Observer Intern September 11 is a date that will ring an…

Neither snow nor rain nor toxic threat

  By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – When we first received notification of a U.S.…

It could have been so much worse . . .

  By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A simple afternoon errand at Walmart on Friday,…

St. Cecilia’s feeling pastoral gap

  By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A Catholic parish in Kearny has lost two…

Thoughts & Views: Game, set & match: the women prevail

  The other week, PBS ran an American Masters documentary on Billie Jean King, a ranking…