NA Health Department programs

  North Arlington Health Department, 10 Beaver Ave.,  announces the following programs, scheduled for September. Blood…

NJMC fall programs focus on astronomy

LYNDHURST – The wide-ranging influence of outer space on music, art, science and more is the focus…

Horror in Harrison

3-year-old among triple-homicide victims       By Ron Leir HARRISON – Police and a puzzled…

Cameras will focus on south end of town

  By Ron Leir HARRISON – Township residents who are still reeling from the impact of…

Who was that masked man?

  By Karen Zautyk LYNDHURST –   Local police, and the FBI, are still searching for…

In emergency, pets suffer too

  By Karen Zautyk Thanks to the N.J. Department of Agriculture and the the state Office…

Referendum redux

  By Ron Leir LYNDHURST – Public school officials here are hoping that Dec. 13 will…

Kentucky Care Going Strong

By Lisa Pezzolla Last Tuesday kicked off our collections for Kentucky Care and it began with…

Looking for the answers

Maybe, by the time you read this, someone may have discovered a possible explanation. Drug-induced psychosis.…

We’ve got mail

To the Publisher, The recent recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey by Cargill proves…

Singin’ in the rain & other KPD news

By Karen Zautyk KEARNY — Maybe it was a “back to the ’60s” thing. At 11:30…

Bad things happen in threes

  By Karen Zautyk NUTLEY – Two lanes on Rt. 21 South had to be shut…

Mansion hosts musicians

By Anthony J. Machcinski A warm sunshine filled the large windowed room at the Oakeside Bloomfield…

Around town

Bloomfield Do you knit, crochet, needlepoint, quilt? Then come to the Bloomfield Public Library Fridays at…

A lucky escape from carjackers

NUTLEY  — This past Sunday, at 2:39 p.m., a Belleville man and his infant son had…

Phishers seem to have netted 2

By Karen Zautyk NUTLEY — In what appears to be sheer coincidence, Nutley police took two…

Nutley gridders give back to coach’s hometown

Travel to Tuscaloosa to aid in tornado recovery By Jim Hague How do a bunch of…

Kearny football looks to build on Llaneza’s first season

    By Jim Hague It’s the second year of the Pete Llaneza regime as head…

Belleville football looks to new future with new coach Dubuque

  By Jim Hague There’s a new head football coach at Belleville High School, but he’s…

The bull in the East vs. the bear in the West

  By Randy Neumann Last October, I traveled to Newport Beach, Calif., (where, by the way,…

The party ended in a cell

By Karen Zautyk KEARNY – Advice to partygoers: If the neighbors complain about the noise and…

Obituaries

Christina McAllister Christina McAllister, 92, died on Aug. 17 at her home. Services were held at…

Kentucky Care 2011

  By Karen Zautyk The Observer’s 4th annual Kentucky Care Project is underway! Last Friday, the…

Nabbed in sex assaults

By Karen Zautyk A man arrested in 2008 in Nutley in the alleged sexual assault of…

Political feuding erupts anew over budget cuts

By Ron Leir NORTH ARLINGTON – This borough’s shaky ship of state has arrived at an…

How not to rob a bank

  By Karen Zautyk NUTLEY – Not that we’re speaking from personal experience, but it seems…

Crossed signals on DeJessa Bridge

  By Ron Leir LYNDHURST –   Given the cumbersome pace of travel, impatient South Bergen…

News from the Nutley police blotter

By Karen Zautyk A Sunday afternoon altercation between two teenagers on Franklin Ave. last week culminated…

Drug busts keep cops busy

By Karen Zautyk KEARNY – A 55-year-old Rutherford man, with what Kearny Police Chief John Dowie…

See Something? Say Something

By Lisa Pezzolla It is hard enough keeping your business going on a daily basis without…