KPD: Have gun, will travel — by taxi

By Karen Zautyk On Jan. 15 at 10:14 p.m., near Brighton and Bergen avenues, Kearny Dets.…

Essex prosecutor: Retired Newark police lieutenant shoots, kills self at Bloomfield PD quarters

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office is investigating a reported suicide of a retired Newark cop at…

Rogers announces shutdown-assistance program

Nutley commissioner is asking residents to donate gift cards for groceries, other incidentals to help local…

MICHIGAN TO THE MLS: Kearny’s Borges gets selected by Colorado Rapids

When Marcello Borges was just a student at Franklin School in Kearny, he would join his…

What the smell is that odor in Kearny?

Kearny’s elected officials are looking to their state counterparts to raise a stink about noxious odors…

Obituaries for 16 Jan. 2019

TAJ ANTHONY ROBERTS Taj Anthony Roberts of Kearny died Jan. 9, 2019. He was 37. Visiting…

Lyndhurst’s Pezzolla signs letter with Monmouth

LYNDHURST – When Giulia Pezzolla was growing up, she always thought she would eventually become a…

Harrison’s Sowe named Section 2 Player of Year

EDISON – He just received the New Jersey Scholastic Soccer Coaches Association’s North Jersey Section 2…

IMMIGRATION EXCLUSIVE

Nutley Commissioner Steven L. Rogers is doing a lot more these days than just representing the…

EDITORIAL: In thanks for our first responders

IT WAS JUST AROUND A YEAR AGO THIS week that the Kearny Fire Department fought a…

Obituaries for 9 Jan. 2019

PETER T. NOLAN Mr. Peter T. Nolan (retired KFD) of Kearny and Point Pleasant died Saturday,…

Kearny wrestlers rely on powerful lightweight brigade

A full year has passed since Tony Carratura Jr. took over the coaching reins of the…

Weaver comes home again to lead Lyndhurst wrestling

There was a famous writer named Thomas Wolfe who once wrote a book entitled, “You Can’t…

Kearny’s Myers becomes a shot blocking machine

A year ago, Robert Myers was devastated by the news that he was declared academically ineligible…

The Top 10 stories of 2018 on theobserver.com

While The Observer continues to be one of the most read printed weekly newspapers in New…