Edna Hemsley Edna Hemsley (nee Rainey), 84 of Greentown, Pa., passed away on December 27, 2016.…
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This way madness lies … unless …
By Ron Leir As we’re just days away from 2017, what better way to greet the…
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…