EAST NEWARK – For kids like Perla Orozco, Gabriel Arias and Miguel Villalpando, it was the chance to exercise…
Day: June 2, 2015
Selfless service to community
BELLEVILLE – Two longtime Belleville civic activists were feted by the Kevin G. Kennedy Civic Association at the organization’s 22nd…
Public event safety eyed in new rules
KEARNY – Kearny’s VFW post is asking the town to divert traffic off Belgrove Drive, from Bergen Ave. to…
90-year-old Harrison woman thrown nearly 12 feet after hit-and-run
HARRISON — Harrison police are continuing to investigate exactly how a 90-year-old town woman was struck…
Man shot dead by police in library
LYNDHURST – A township man was fatally shot by police inside the Lyndhurst Public Library last Friday. Police Chief James…
School trustee facing removal
KEARNY – Once part of a majority voting bloc on the Kearny Board of Education, Dan Esteves this week faced…
Town awaits ABC ruling on bar
KEARNY – Theresa Sullivan was happy when she bought her brand new house on Brighton Ave. in Kearny’s First Ward.…
4 new promotions but still understaffed
KEARNY – He’s been a Kearny cop since 1999 but five years prior, Adriano Marques learned what it was like…
Thoughts & Views: The sporting life
The recent passing of Walter Byers, who built up a then-fledgling National Collegiate Athletic Association into a college sports dynamo, brought…
CORRECTION
A story in The Observer’s May 27 issue about a Lyndhurst residential development misstated the name…
BOE settles with Doran on back pay
KEARNY – The Kearny Board of Education has agreed to settle a tort claim for wrongful termination brought by…
Emergency device will help save lives
LYNDHURST – The township of Lyndhurst has equipped one of its ambulances with a Zoll AutoPulse Non-Invasive Cardiac Support Pump…
KPD: No Coke. Pepsi.
Three Kearny juveniles who mistakenly thought they were smarter than the cops ended up in custody last week after they stole…
NPD: Lock your car doors!
Nutley PD is reminding residents to lock their car doors in the wake of multiple vehicular burglaries and a stolen…
2 MORE YEARS BEHIND BARS FOR NA SEX OFFENDER
A 41-year-old North Arlington man has been sentenced to at least two more years behind bars…