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…