Lyndhurst boys’ soccer: Moving on after graduation

The Lyndhurst High School boys’ soccer team posted a 10-9-1 record last year. “We could have…

Teens head to camp this week and will bring positive message back to peers

By Kevin Canessa This week, a group of Kearny teenagers head out to a camp in…

Obituaries for Aug. 22, 2018

Zenon Jankiewicz Zenon Jankiewicz, of Kearny, died peacefully on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2018 He was 90. Visiting…

Have you ever left a kid in a hot car?

By Kevin Canessa As someone who spent four full years in the oppressive heat of South…

Lyndhurst kids learn ins and outs of policing @ Junior Police Academy

LYNDHURST — While many youngsters were sleeping in and taking life easy in the midst of…

How one person’s needless fear led to an unnecessary death

Kim Alfieri will never forget the date June 27, 2018. Because it was that day her…

Help is available, even for the uninsured

In the struggle to find ways to end addiction to alcohol and drugs, we often hear…

Feorenzo, Combs speak of addiction, rebounding & being successful after being an addict

In our efforts to bring you top-notch content on the crisis in America involving addiction, mental…

The person next door may just be an alcoholic

When people think of the term “alcoholic,” there’s often a mental image that forms. Scrawny. Unkempt.…

New laws that could soon affect you

A  recent report listed a series of bills that could be heading to the desk of Gov.…

Harrison firefighter injured after dump truck slams into tiller: HPD

A Harrison firefighter was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries Friday, July 6, when he…

HPD: Harrison firefighter injured after HFD tiller truck is struck by dump truck

A Harrison firefighter was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries when he was injured as…

Leave fireworks to the professionals, KPD Chief says

Six months before he left office, former Gov. Chris Christie signed into law a bill that…

Kearny, New Jersey — a place where stigmas are history

On this website are two obituaries, one for a young lady, 29, and the other for…

Obituaries for 4 July 2018

Allison Elizabeth Gaynor died Wednesday, June 27, 2018. She was 24. Allison was born in Newark…

Nutley resident victim of Western Union scam, NPD says

Another Nutley resident has fallen prey to a fraudster, this time via Western Union money transfers,…

Belleville Police Blotter — July 4

He didn’t belong in that car A Union Avenue resident told police on June 17 that…

You’re not misreading this — the Pulaski Skyway rehab project is nearly over!

KEARNY — This is not a joke. Nor is it fake news. The Pulaski Skyway rehabilitation…

Hudson County Corrections Officer, resident of Kearny, arrested after allegedly smuggling contraband into jail

A Hudson County Corrections Officer, who is also a resident of Kearny, has been arrested and…

KPD Chief King: No charges for JC Mayor Fulop

Charges will not be filed against Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop following an incident where the…

Apologize to the Kearny cop you shoved, Santos says to JC Mayor Fulop

Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop owes the rookie Kearny police officer he shoved last night an…

Kearny professor pleads guilty to fraud

NEW YORK CITY — Mamdouh Abdel-Sayed, a tenured lecturer at the City University of New York’s…

What are your summer baseball memories? Let us know for a chance to win Jackals’ tix

With the summer just around the corner, it’s really time, now, for baseball fans to begin…

Friends, family raising funds for the late Vitorino Cirne

By Kevin Canessa More than two weeks after the death of Vitorino Cirne, 51, the Lyndhurst…

Former Kearny BOE payroll clerk faces new charges, HCPO says

Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez has released the following information: On Monday, May 21, 2018, Gina…

Body pulled from Passaic River is missing postal worker Cirne

KEARNY — The body of a 51-year-old Lyndhurst man, a letter carrier with the Kearny Post…

In thanks for mom

By Kevin Canessa Jr. When I was a wee lad, growing up and living in Jersey…

THE (VERY) OLD BALL GAME

If you were anywhere near Boys’ Park at Yanticaw Park in Nutley Saturday afternoon, May 5,…

Amid fanfare, FedEx opens its new North Arlington location

There was pomp and circumstance in North Arlington last week as FedEx Freight officially opened its…

KFD purchases thermal-imaging cameras with FEMA grant

By Kevin Canessa Here’s a scenario we’ve all probably faced at one point or another. You…