B&C picked to build new Harrison school

HARRISON – A contractor that ended up in arbitration with the Kearny Board of Education on…

Trooper lists online safety tips

BELLEVILLE – On the heels of the arrest of a Belleville man earlier this month for…

5-year deal to reassess local properties

NORTH ARLINGTON – Nobody told the borough to do it – there was no order from…

KPD: Here’s a door — to the county jail

  At 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 11, after KPD headquarters received a report of two individuals…

Not so sweet a season for alleged thief

  A Newark man who, police say, may have had thoughts about swiping an unsecured package…

Mall patrol pays off

  KEARNY —   As it does each year, the KPD has been assigning extra officers…

Obituaries: 21 Dec. 2016

Obituaries Gloria G. Broant Gloria G. Broant (nee Spinello), of Pompton Plains, formerly of Kearny, died…

Killer of Kearny jeweler up for sentencing

JERSEY CITY – More than seven years after he killed a Kearny jeweler during a robbery,…

Apartments at industrial park?

KEARNY – As bulldozers keep moving mounds of dirt on the site of the former Jeryl…

Firehouse fix expected to start soon: chief

KEARNY – Public safety infrastructure and personnel were among the focal points at the Dec. 6…

PHA smokers beware! Ban is coming

HARRISON – The Harrison Housing Authority is in the final stages of upgrading its closed-circuit TV…

KPD Bloody mess-up at Walmart

The report came in at 10:57 p.m. on Dec. 1: Large fight at Walmart. Turned out it…

Charged in bank robbery spree

KEARNY – The suspect in the Nov. 29 robbery of the Provident Bank in Kearny, arrested in…

Going home, going home …

By Karen Zautyk The other day, zipping through the TV channels in search of anything other…

Benjamin Pezzolla, brother of Observer GM Robert Pezzolla, dead at 82

Benjamin A. Pezzolla (Benny), the brother of two local businessmen – Robert P. Pezzolla, general manager…