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2 area towns getting Fire Dept. assist grants
U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D- 9th), chairman of the Congressional Fire Services Caucus, announced that the U.S. Dept. of…
Turfing project forges ahead
Kearny is moving ahead with plans to turf Veteran’s Memorial Field along Belgrove Drive. Applied Landscape Technologies of Montville – hired…
Obituaries
Jonathon Brown Jonathon Brown entered into eternal rest on Thursday, Aug. 27, at the New Vista Care Center, Newark.…
Visions Dance Studio now offers tumbling
Starting its 19th year, Visions Dance Studio, located at 202 Midland Avenue (corner of Davis and Midland Avenue) in Kearny, is…
Kearny Health officials looking for dog that bit local man
Health officials are on the lookout for a dog that badly injured a man in Kearny’s…
Cadets get upclose lesson on 9/11
KEARNY – Last week, we wrote about the Kearny Police Department’s Junior Police Academy and the 50 dedicated cadets who…
Overseas mission for teacher
KEARNY – Before she returns to her teaching job at Kearny High School next month, Jennifer Hansen will be…
‘Dream’ now closer to reality
LYNDHURST – The long-delayed American Dream retail and entertainment complex planned for the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford has…
Library shooting to grand jury
HACKENSACK – A little more than two months after a township man was fatally shot in the Lyndhurst Public Library…
Better late than never on court safety
KEARNY/HARRISON – Maybe the state should throw the book at them. Nine years after the N.J. Administrative Office of the…
Expanded public parking on Grant Ave.?
EAST NEWARK – In the wake of a fire that wrecked a two-story duplex on Grant Ave. next to…
Burglaries top KPD blotter news
Kearny police are on the hunt for a man who allegedly burglarized two Kearny Ave. businesses in the overnight hours…
Thoughts & Views: Refreshing paws on a summer day
If you don’t recognize the photo accompanying this column, you must have neither television nor Internet access. It’s a still…
CORRECTION
A story in the Aug. 19 issue of The Observer misstated the number of jobs that…