KEARNY – The Town of Kearny is getting ready to hire more firefighters – quite a few, in…
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Obituaries
Margaret Baratta Margaret Baratta (nee LaMagra), 97, former longtime Kearny resident, passed away peacefully on June 22 in Georgia, surrounded…
New apartments for Passaic Ave.?
KEARNY – He has built a new apartment complex in Lyndhurst and he’s got others nearing completion in Kearny and…
Stranger than fiction
KEARNY – As they say, you can’t make this stuff up. Arrested Thursday in Newark was a man…
New bridge requires big bucks
EAST NEWARK – Is a replacement for the Clay St. Bridge over the Passaic River a bridge too…
Honoring those first patriots
BELLEVILLE – The Belleville Historical Society will mark its annual July 4th observance with a special ceremony at the historic…
Council OKs ‘trial’ Sunday demolition
KEARNY – It hasn’t happened in a long while so when a member of the Kearny governing body cast…
‘Front-end in first’ or face a fine
KEARNY – Motorists beware! The town has extended its “Front-End in First” policy to the municipal lot at 285 Kearny…
WE’VE GOT MAIL
‘GIVE YOUNG KIDS MORE TO DO IN NA’ To the Editor: I have been a North…
Thoughts & Views: Make symbols ‘teachable moments’
Sometimes, we pay more attention to symbols than we do about how we behave as a society but that is…
KPD: Different sort of accident report
If your husband smashes up your car, why not just report it stolen? According to police, that’s what a…
Bloomfield man dies after crash in park
BELLEVILLE – Essex County authorities are continuing to investigate the circumstances leading to a single-vehicle crash in Branch Brook Park…
‘Keep SMMC open,’ petitioners plead
More than 60 members of the Coalition to Save St. Michael’s Medical Center traveled from Newark to the Statehouse in…
This was an open & shut case
KEARNY – Local vice detectives, ever vigilant in their efforts to protect the township from nefarious activity, managed to…
around town
East Newark St. Anthony’s School will host an all-grades reunion Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. at Michael’s Riverside in…