That squad is on fire

KEARNY — Leonor Nasert is a very lucky mom. A year-and-a-half ago, her daughter, a sixth-grader…

Someone across the Passaic dropped the ball

Having had the honor of sitting down with Kearny police Capts. Scott Macfie and Tim Wagner…

BOCCE BOYS

If you’ve ever taken a drive in Belleville’s Branch Brook Park, around the cherry blossom trees,…

Obituaries for 18 Oct. 2017

Frances L. ‘Fran’ Kong Frances L. “Fran” Kong died suddenly Oct. 10. She was 69. Born…

14-year-old Kearny boy reported missing last week still has not been found

A 14-year-old boy whose family reported him missing a week ago today has still not yet…

NYC college lecturer, a Kearny resident, charged with federal offenses for selling fake college certificates

Mamdouh Abdel-Sayed, a 68-year-old Kearny resident and a full-time, tenured lecturer at the City University of…

Festivals were fun, as was KFD Open House

By Kevin Canessa So much has happened over the last few weeks locally that I thought…

2 GRAND BIRTHDAYS — LYNDHURST @ 100 & KEARNY @ 150

If there’s such a thing as a weather god, it really did a great job this…

DIVERSITY ON DISPLAY at HARRISON FEST ’17

The hot late-September temperatures were no match for Harrison Fest 2017. For the 22nd consecutive year,…

European-like living at Harrison Urby

HARRISON — On a beautiful Tuesday morning in September, Ironstate Development and the Pegasus Group cut…

The hell of 9/11/01 turned to joy on 9/21/01

Sept. 21, 2001, was my 27th birthday. Following the terror attacks just 10 days earlier, it…

GAZING AT THE SUN

Elaine McCarthy and Jess McMasters have been friends for a long time. Many years ago, they…

Cardinal making first pastoral visit to Kearny Sept. 7

The calendar may indicate it’s still summer during the first few weeks of September, but at the Roman…

Lyndhurst man, a firefighter, arrested on child-porn charges: BCPO

LYNDHURST — A 49-year-old Lyndhurst man who lists his occupation as a firefighter with an unknown…

Obituaries for 23 Aug. 2017

  Werner Manjkow Werner Manjkow, 63, died Tuesday, Aug. 15, at his home in Kearny. The…

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN

THE FIRST TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE SUN IN 99 years — well, it’ll almost be a…

C.O. charged with drunken driving: HPD

HARRISON — A state corrections officer, who lives in Kearny, has been charged with drunken driving…

Senior jitney ride … a true lesson in history

By Kevin Canessa Jr. As you may have read already, elsewhere in this newspaper, on Tuesday,…

After car crashes, pole catches fire

BELLEVILLE — Firefighters faced an unusually dangerous incident Thursday, July 13, as a utility pole caught…

On Game 6 of ’86 & more

By Kevin Canessa Every so often, you sit down, whether it’s at home at the dining…

Correction

A photo caption in this week’s edition incorrectly identified a member of the Lyndhurst 100th anniversary…

Actor: ‘I beat the streets, you can, too’

It doesn’t take very long to figure out that Randy DeOrio has a very positive outlook…

Think our laws are strict?

By Kevin Canessa Sometimes, we Americans take for granted the laws established in this country. Shockingly,…

Honored for saving Lyndhurst man’s life

LYNDHURST — It may sound cliché, but life, as we know it, can change in a…

Locals remember the late ‘Father Tom’

The Rev. Msgr. G. Thomas Burns, who for 22 years was a parochial vicar at St.…

Kearny’s Sarah Davie ready to change the world

Kearny’s Sarah Davie has a goal — to change the world’s thinking about how we treat…

SENIORS SAVOR PICNIC PLEASURE

If the 27th annual Kearny senior citizens’ picnic had been a day earlier, the mercury, which had…

Exotic fish, turtle, stolen from pond

NUTLEY — A Bloomfield Ave. resident reported the theft of nearly 30 Koi fish and a…

Nutley fire truck overturns near HQ

Nutley’s Truck 1 flipped not too far from headquarters Saturday night, June 17. Reports say three…

June 14 — A day better to forget

By Kevin Canessa Jr. kc@theobserver.com For whatever reason, I woke up at 4 a.m., on Wednesday,…