HARRISON – As one longtime administrator leaves, a new one enters at the Harrison Board of…
Day: January 18, 2017
Getting into the spirit of the paranormal
How do you get 130+ high school students to sit in absolute silence, listening with rapt…
Kearny Rec creates policy for transgender participants
KEARNY – Given the recent action by the Secaucus chapter of the Boy Scouts of America…
‘Remember, Jon, there’s another carpenter (up) there’
KEARNY – An overwhelming sense of loss. That was the obvious sentiment that prevailed at the…
KPD: Victim helps nab burglary suspect
At 2:45 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 7, Kearny police received a report of a burglary in progress…
2 motorcycles stolen from 1 township man: NPD
NUTLEY – Two motorcycles parked in their assigned parking spaces at a River Road apartment complex…
Water fails test but is OK to drink
BELLEVILLE – It happened in 2015 and, again, in 2016. As per a Dec. 29, 2016…
DOT to brief SKIA on traffic changes
KEARNY – Local business owners will huddle with state transit officials this week to learn about…
LPD seek 2 in Bridge Exxon holdup
LYNDHURST – Two suspects were being sought in connection with the armed robbery of a service…
4 charged as deli-nquents
KEARNY – In the Dec. 28 edition of The Observer, the headline on the KPD…
They were the best they could be
By Ron Leir As we usher in the new year and, with it, hope for renewal,…
Obituaries for Jan. 18, 2017
John McAllister John McAllister, of Morristown, formerly of Harrison, died Friday, Dec. 30. He was 54.…
Kearny grapplers move on after losing their mentor
It was the first week of December and the Kearny High School wrestling team was just…
Maroon Raider grapplers struggle through injuries
The Nutley High School wrestling team has a record of 4-7, but that’s not going…
Youssef: Belleville’s blossoming big man
Mohamed Youssef had just begun to become interested in the game of basketball. Youssef was in…