A 71-year-old man accidentally drove his car into the Third River in Nutley, but wasn't seriously…
Month: December 2015
Clarification & Correction
A story in this week's edition of The Observer about the opening of the new Harrison…
Ready to open health center next month
HARRISON — Several years in the making, Harrison’s Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) – which the late Mayor Ray McDonough…
BOE inks 2 union pacts; teachers waiting
KEARNY – Two more school employee groups were placed in the fold last Monday, Dec. 21, as the Kearny…
Thoughts & Views: So, ya wanna fight?
The Christmas / Chanukah / Kwanza/ Festivus holiday season is supposed to be a time when we all can take…
WE’VE GOT MAIL
‘THANK YOU’ To the Editor: As mayor, and on behalf of the Lyndhurst Board of Commissioners, I would…
Combatting ‘hate rhetoric’ in a big way
KEARNY – A local industrialist is responsible for a billboard erected along Truck Rt. 1&9 in Kearny that decries anti-immigrant sentiment,…
A lesson on the Holocaust from a survivor
HARRISON – Seventeen sixth-graders from Harrison’s Washington Middle School journeyed to the Alex Aidekman Family Jewish Community Center in Whippany on Dec.…
5 area creches robbed of Baby Jesus statue
Baby Jesus statues were stolen from Christmas Nativity displays set up at two churches in Kearny, and from church grounds in…
around town
Kearny Kearny UNICO is sponsoring its “Winter Doldrums” bus trip to the Tropicana Casino in Atlantic City on Sunday, Jan.…
Sports year in review
The calendar year of 2015 produced its share of compelling local sports stories. Here’s The Observer’s Top 10 Sports Stories…
Obituaries
Francisca Bonilla A funeral service for Francisca Bonilla, 95, of Harrison, will be at Armitage Wiggins Funeral Home, 596 Belgrove…
After fake cop pulls over real cop, fake cop winds up behind bars
When a Nutley man pretended to be a cop by pulling someone over on the Garden…
Hollywood star Pamela Anderson: I didn’t buy a cell phone in Nutley
Hollywood star Pamela Anderson bought a cell phone and a new line of cell service in…