Lawrence Davidson Sr. Lawrence J. Davidson Sr. passed away on Monday, Aug. 31. Arrangements were by the Thiele-Reid Family…
Year: 2015
Correction
A story about the fish exchange program in The Observer’s Aug. 26 issue contained two errors.…
100 years of memories
HARRISON – Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president. War raged in Europe and the Luisitania was sunk. Stateside, Alexander Graham Bell…
Farewell to the ‘Voice’
KEARNY – “The Voice of Kearny” has signed off. Diane Malley, who made the scene at the Kearny…
A Heaven ¢entopportunity
KEARNY – Many have been in a situation like this one — especially since 2009 when the Great Recession…
The evidence is in … lots of it
On the evening of Aug. 24, the Kearny Police Department received multiple calls from residents concerned about a plane that was…
Displaced flag poles & more: NPD
A Washington Ave. resident told police he found two, 7-foot metal poles with American flags attached to them on his lawn…
KPD: Temper, temper . . .
A local man was arrested last week and charged with criminal mischief after he was allegedly involved in an assault…
New play surface; possible park do-over
One municipal playground is due for a partial facelift and another may be in line for a full makeover. Lyndhurst…
Thoughts & Views: To celebrate wretched writing
In 1982, the English Department at California’s San Jose State University launched the annual Bulwer- Lytton Fiction Contest, inviting deliberately “wretched writers”…
‘Modest’ tax hit from school projects: CFO
LYNDHURST – Township Board of Education officials have pegged the cost of a new junior high school at Matera Field…
KHS: windows going in now, steel is next
KEARNY – Want to see proof that progress is being made on the ongoing construction project at Kearny High School?…
Nearly full day spent quelling marsh fire
KEARNY – Firefighters last week spent nearly 24 hours in the marshes behind Gunnell Oval, combating a stubborn brush fire…
around town
Belleville Belleville Public Library and Information Center, 221 Washington Ave., announces the following programs for children. Registration is required for…
2 area towns getting Fire Dept. assist grants
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D- 9th), chairman of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, announced that the U.S. Dept. of…
Turfing project forges ahead
Kearny is moving ahead with plans to turf Veteran’s Memorial Field along Belgrove Drive. Applied Landscape Technologies of Montville – hired…
Kearny boys’ soccer: No room for error this time
The Kearny High School boys’ soccer team enjoyed a magical run last fall in the regular season and Hudson County…
Lyndhurst girls’ soccer: Stay the course
The Lyndhurst High School girls’ soccer team lost their leading goal scorer and leading playmaker to graduation from a team that finished…
Belleville football: The future looks bright
When Joe Fischer returned to take over the Belleville High School football program last year, he knew he had an…
Obituaries
Jonathon Brown Jonathon Brown entered into eternal rest on Thursday, Aug. 27, at the New Vista Care Center, Newark.…
Visions Dance Studio now offers tumbling
Starting its 19th year, Visions Dance Studio, located at 202 Midland Avenue (corner of Davis and Midland Avenue) in Kearny, is…
Kearny Health officials looking for dog that bit local man
Health officials are on the lookout for a dog that badly injured a man in Kearny’s…
Cadets get upclose lesson on 9/11
KEARNY – Last week, we wrote about the Kearny Police Department’s Junior Police Academy and the 50 dedicated cadets who…
Overseas mission for teacher
KEARNY – Before she returns to her teaching job at Kearny High School next month, Jennifer Hansen will be…
‘Dream’ now closer to reality
LYNDHURST – The long-delayed American Dream retail and entertainment complex planned for the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford has…
Library shooting to grand jury
HACKENSACK – A little more than two months after a township man was fatally shot in the Lyndhurst Public Library…
Better late than never on court safety
KEARNY/HARRISON – Maybe the state should throw the book at them. Nine years after the N.J. Administrative Office of the…
Expanded public parking on Grant Ave.?
EAST NEWARK – In the wake of a fire that wrecked a two-story duplex on Grant Ave. next to…
Burglaries top KPD blotter news
Kearny police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly burglarized two Kearny Ave. businesses in the overnight hours…
Thoughts & Views: Refreshing paws on a summer day
If you don’t recognize the photo accompanying this column, you must have neither television nor Internet access. It’s a still…