As we hurl headlong into another presidential nomination cycle, it’s an opportune time for all of us to step back…
The Observer Staff
CORRECTION!
A story about the fish exchange program in The Observer’s Aug. 26 issue contained two errors.…
3 robbery suspects collared
KEARNY – A Saturday night party in a Quincy Ave. backyard morphed into a crime scene Aug. 29 when…
around town
Belleville The Township of Belleville will hold its “We Remember Sept. 11, 2001” ceremony on Friday, Sept. 11, at…
Men’s Wellness Day upcoming at SMMC
St. Michael’s Medical Center, Newark, hosts a “Men’s Health and Wellness Day” in partnership with the American Cancer Society and…
Obituaries
Lawrence Davidson Sr. Lawrence J. Davidson Sr. passed away on Monday, Aug. 31. Arrangements were by the Thiele-Reid Family…
100 years of memories
HARRISON – Woodrow Wilson was U.S. president. War raged in Europe and the Luisitania was sunk. Stateside, Alexander Graham Bell…
Farewell to the ‘Voice’
KEARNY – “The Voice of Kearny” has signed off. Diane Malley, who made the scene at the Kearny…
The evidence is in … lots of it
On the evening of Aug. 24, the Kearny Police Department received multiple calls from residents concerned about a plane that was…
KPD: Temper, temper . . .
A local man was arrested last week and charged with criminal mischief after he was allegedly involved in an assault…
New play surface; possible park do-over
One municipal playground is due for a partial facelift and another may be in line for a full makeover. Lyndhurst…
Thoughts & Views: To celebrate wretched writing
In 1982, the English Department at California’s San Jose State University launched the annual Bulwer- Lytton Fiction Contest, inviting deliberately “wretched writers”…
‘Modest’ tax hit from school projects: CFO
LYNDHURST – Township Board of Education officials have pegged the cost of a new junior high school at Matera Field…
KHS: windows going in now, steel is next
KEARNY – Want to see proof that progress is being made on the ongoing construction project at Kearny High School?…
Nearly full day spent quelling marsh fire
KEARNY – Firefighters last week spent nearly 24 hours in the marshes behind Gunnell Oval, combating a stubborn brush fire…