By Ron Leir It’s a dangerous world out there and nobody knows that better than foreign…
Year: 2018
Obituaries for 18 April 2018
Stavroula Kourkoulis Stavroula Kourkoulis died April 6, 2018. Visiting was at the Armitage & Wiggins Funeral…
Nutley baseball: Young guns coming of age
The Nutley High School baseball team, which suffered through an uncharacteristic losing season in 2017, is…
Rusek, Galante earn NJSCA Hall of Fame honors
Being a high school coach is a thankless job. It requires working long hours at ridiculously…
Lyndhurst ace Venezia fires no-hitter in opener against Leonia
Growing up, Lyndhurst High School junior pitcher Frankie Venezia didn’t have to look far to find…
DEVELOPING NEWS: Lyndhurst cops searching for missing 51-year-old man
The Lyndhurst Police Department is actively conducting a missing-person investigation. Vitorino Cirne, seen in the photo…
Generics v. Brands
If you take any kind of medication — for whatever the reason — chances are you’ve…
Kearny crime rate continues to drop
KEARNY — The Kearny Police Department has released its Uniform Crime Report Index for 2017, and the…
Memories of (pre-casino) Atlantic City
By Karen Zautyk What do Louis Armstrong, Conway Twitty, Mr. Peanut and Elsie the Cow have in…
Obituaries for April 11, 2018
Hon. John A. McLaughlin; was NJ Superior Court Judge The Hon. John A. McLaughlin, 83, of…
Buccaneers try to recover from offseason losses
The Belleville High School baseball team dropped two games on Saturday to Verona and Montclair Kimberley…
Kearny hoops awards dinner brings former Net O’Koren to speak
For all intents and purposes, it was not a season to remember for the Kearny High…
NA’s McKenna fires no-hitter against Bogota, has four-hit game vs. Weehawken
At the end of the 2017 high school baseball season, North Arlington shocked a lot of…
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Swimming fees lowered by Lyndhurst commissioners
By Ron Leir rleir@theobserver.com LYNDHURST — No matter last week’s nor’easter, March 20 marked the first…
Approaching a corner with an SUV parked at it? Hold on for your life!
By Kevin Canessa The other day, a good friend of mine and I were driving along…
Obituaries for March 28, 2018
Catherine Dalton Meder Catherine Dalton Meder, 75, of Guilford, Conn., succumbed to her long brave battle…
Harrison looks to veteran players to lead the way
The Harrison High School baseball team enjoyed some success a year ago with a roster filled…
Kearny’s Cardenas wins Junior National wrestling championship
Jacob Cardenas went to Virginia Beach and the National High School Coaches Association wrestling championships last…
Belleville softball team looks to battle new SEC foes
The Belleville High School softball team won 13 games a year ago and captured the Super…
DeGise announces termination of medical-services provider contract in response to yet another inmate suicide at Hudson jail
Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise made the following statement after more than three hours of meetings…
KPD: Drug deal could have been lethal
At 12:52 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, Kearny patrol officers responded to a report of gunfire at…
GETTING HIS DUE … FINALLY
BELLEVILLE — At the intersection of Belleville and Franklin avenues stands the imposing building that was once the…
Doomed NYC helicopter took off from South Kearny: reports
A helicopter that crashed into New York City’s East River Sunday, March 11, killing all five…
A bit of forgotten baseball history
By Karen Zautyk Did you know that Cleveland once had a pro-baseball team called the Spiders?…
Obituaries for March 14, 2018
Manuel Vila Manuel Vila, 79, of Harrison, died March 9, 2018, at home. Visiting was at…
Belleville names Johnson as new football coach
Belleville High School hasn’t enjoyed a winning season over 20 years. The last season that had…
Kearny native Thiele joins 1,000-point club at St. Peter’s Prep
Brendan Thiele vividly remembered being a freshman at St. Peter’s Prep in Jersey City and noticing…