NUTLEY — A funding scare notwithstanding, Nutley Family Services Bureau is still functioning, reports executive director…
Year: 2017
KPD: With ‘friends’ like these: Jeepers!
KEARNY — At 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 16, KPD Officer Philip Finch responded to the report of…
Bloomfield cop shoots suspect dead, ECPO investigating
BLOOMFIELD — The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a police-involved shooting in Bloomfield that left…
Tracing Kearny statue’s history …
With statues of U.S. historical figures representative of the Civil War prominently in the news these…
Obituaries for 23 Aug. 2017
Werner Manjkow Werner Manjkow, 63, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, at his home in Kearny. The…
DiGregorio returns to lead Nutley grid program
It was a glorious Saturday afternoon at the famed Nutley Oval athletic complex. The sun was…
Lyndhurst boys’ soccer: Continuing the ascent
Ever since Denis Jelcic took over the Lyndhurst boys’ soccer program four years ago, there has…
Kards try to bounce back from lost season
There’s no way to sugarcoat what the Kearny High School football team had to endure in…
KID FOR OTHERS: 7-year-old Kearny boy sells juice & lemonade to buy lunches for first responders
KEARNY — Brandon Marrero is your typical 7-year-old, a perpetual motion machine who looks comfortable in…
The battle vs. opioids continues
Education Awareness on Drug Dependency (EADD), a Kearny-based volunteer grassroots group, is continuing its campaign to…
KPD: Here come da judge — and da cops
KEARNY — A 22-year-old town man was arrested earlier this month — while he was appearing…
New firefighter hired, but not without dissent
KEARNY — The Town of Kearny has hired a new firefighter whose appointment was opposed by…
HCPO: Giordano died from natural causes
JERSEY CITY — The official word from Hudson County authorities is that former Kearny Second Ward…
New early childhood care center coming to Harrison
HARRISON – A new child care facility is setting up shop in Harrison. The Harrison Planning…
Chisari elevated to construction official
KEARNY — Kearny has a new construction official. Anthony Chisari, who has worked for the town…
Fall festivities planned
KEARNY — The Town of Kearny has slated a Block Party Celebration for Sunday, Oct.…
Obituaries for 16 Aug. 2017
Raymond C. Condon Raymond C. Condon, a lifelong Kearny resident, died suddenly Saturday, Aug. 5, at…
Golden Bears look to build on winning grid season
The Lyndhurst High School football team posted a 5-4-1 record in 2016. In a lot of…
Belleville looks to improve on last year’s tough season
Four weeks into his high school football head coaching career and Mario Cuniglio had the world…
Return to state playoffs goal for Blue Tide
It was a momentous football season for the Harrison High School Blue Tide in 2016, culminating…
Pesky fire was difficult to locate: KFD
KEARNY — A kitchen fire in an apartment at 824 Kearny Ave. Friday, Aug. 4, was…
Honoring a long-ago local hero
BELLEVILLE — This Friday, Aug. 11, marks the 155th anniversary of the death of Capt. Henry Benson,…
Thanks to Doyle, river cleanup rolls on for quarter century +
KEARNY — Years ago, Carol Jean Doyle was doing research in the Kearny Museum and happened…
I partied like it was 1979 …
By Joann Barton Special to The Observer I spent Friday night, Aug. 4, going back in time…
New junior high inching closer
LYNDHURST – The Lyndhurst Board of Education has moved a step closer toward the construction of…
Emergency water supply brought to Kopper’s site
KEARNY — The former Koppers Coke Seaboard Site in the South Kearny meadows may still be…
Belleville case cited in Rx-crisis battle
NEWARK — Expanding efforts to stem the flow of prescription drugs fueling New Jersey’s opioid crisis, state…
Obituaries for 9 Aug. 2017
Richard ‘Dick’ Larkin Richard “Dick” Larkin, a prominent municipal bond analyst and beloved husband and father,…