Abdo-Manno nets major realty award

Maggie Abdo-Manno, broker-sales associate with Century 21 Semiao and Associates’ Lyndhurst office, has been named Top Company Producing Associate for 2014.…

Fundraiser benefits W. Hudson collegians

The Hudson County Community College Foundation’s Scholarship Committee will host a Hudson/Bergen Comedy Night Fundraiser on Tuesday, May 6, beginning at 6…

Thoughts & Views: Don’t give up on peace

In his Easter message delivered Sunday at Vatican City, Pope Francis rightly reminded us about the forgotten people of the…

KPD blotter: Cops weren’t clueless

A motorist who crashed his car on Passaic Ave. fled the scene of the accident, but conveniently provided clues…

3 sought in armed robbery: HPD

Two men held up and robbed a Harrison restaurant and drove away with an accomplice last Saturday, police said.…

Rock thrown at minivan: NPD

Nutley PD is investigating an attack on a vehicle that came on the heels of the driver parking on a…

around town

Bloomfield  Bloomfield Public Library, 90 Broad St., announces the following: Free movie screenings are set for Mondays and Thursdays at…

Golden Bears’ baseball team looks to new coach Auteri

By Jim Hague  Observer Sports Writer  Patrick Auteri said that he has been basically auditioning for the role that…

Izod Center closes: End of an era

By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It was first the Brendan Byrne Arena, then the Continental Airlines Arena and finally…

Kearny softball squad hopes to pick up from last year

By Jim Hague  Observer Sports Writer  The 2014 high school softball season was a dream campaign for the…

‘Take the load off,’ (accidentally)

    Photo courtesy Sgt. Dave Doyle The driver of this tractor-trailer was eastbound on Harrison…

Obituaries

Traci Lee Dunekack Carlen Traci Lee Dunekack Carlen passed away on April 4 after a very courageous battle…

Security guard roughed up in KHS melee; 3 boys charged with aggravated assault

KEARNY – The dust is still settling from a brawl that took place last Monday, March…

Acclaimed by their peers

By Karen Zautyk  Observer Correspondent  KEARNY –  American Legion Post 99 on Belgrove Drive was the setting Friday…

Turf is the way to go

KEARNY –  Real grass seems to be headed out with the dinosaurs these days for Kearny’s municipal playing fields.…

‘Dream’ plan nixed by council

By Ron Leir  Observer Correspondent  BELLEVILLE –  The township is retreating on one prospective real estate development front…

Stepping up in the ranks

By Ron Leir  Observer Correspondent  KEARNY – These days, Kearny is paying attention to its public safety personnel rosters.…

More library staffing sought

By Ron Leir  Observer Correspondent  KEARNY – The Kearny Public Library, struggling to maintain its services in the face…

Jaycees fete 5 for ‘distinguished service’

                  Photos courtesy Walter Smith Clockwise from top…

Now he’s running Montclair schools

By Ron Leir  Observer Correspondent  Former Kearny schools chief Ron Bolandi has a new administrative school post, this time…

Thoughts & Views: Drive the lane you’re in & don’t foul up

It’s down to the Final Four. No, not NCAA teams. (Since I don’t follow basketball, I have no idea…

Cops use Narcon to save life: NPD

Police intervention prevented a suspected drug-induced fatality, Nutley Police Chief Thomas Strumolo said. A Nutley PD press release said that police…

KPD blotter: You can run but . . .

A 16-year-old Kearny youth who was where he should not have been could have ended up with a trespassing…

34-month sentence for embezzler

KEARNY –  A receptionist who embezzled nearly half-a-million dollars from a medical office in Kearny and used fraudulent credit cards…

around town

Belleville The Woman’s Club of Belleville meets the second Monday of each month at 7 p.m. at its clubhouse,…

Kardinals loom as one of Hudson County’s diamond dandies

By Jim Hague  Observer Sports Writer  The Kearny High School baseball team won 13 games last spring, but head…

Harrison softball turns to veteran coach Ronga as leader

By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer After spending last spring away from coaching softball for the first time in…

Vikings look to improve with solid pitching staff

By Jim Hague  Observer Sports Writer  As he begins his eighth season as the head baseball coach at…

Obituaries

George Dock  George Dock, 92, died on March 24 at St. Luke’s Hospice in Bethlehem, Pa. Arrangements were…

District OKs refinancing plan; movement seen on KHS job

KEARNY –  The Kearny Board of Education is refinancing nearly $16 million in old school bonds in hopes of…