KEARNY – Get your favorite pooch into the Halloween spirit at the 2nd annual Kearny Doggie Halloween PAWrade and Festival,…
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Video shows tanker truck that exploded yesterday trying to avoid mattress on NJ Turnpike
A stunning video taken by Kevin Hauer shows the tanker truck that exploded yesterday on the…
Eastwood in Kearny for ‘Sully’
KEARNY – Hollywood came to Kearny again last week in the person of veteran film personality Clint Eastwood. Eastwood, who…
Their futures are bright
KEARNY – Melanie Bendezu is just a 12th-grader but already pondering a possible career as a surgeon. Fellow senior Eddie…
Congrats to Bixlers on new arrival
Another member of the Bixler Group has arrived! Parents Scott and Kathleen Bixler welcome Colin Scott Bixler. He was born…
KFD welcomes all to Open House
TOP photo courtesy KFD, remaining photos by Karen Zautyk Scenes from the Kearny Fire Department’s…
Prayers for the pets
KEARNY – If things continue thus, people are going to start bringing fish to the Blessing of the Animals…
KPD: In parking lot, a lot of drugs
Surveillance of a suspicious car in the Walmart parking lot paid off big time for the Kearny Vice Unit last…
Kearny parade moves to Halloween
KEARNY– The town’s annual Halloween Parade arrives early this season … or rather, on time, depending on how you look…
Concern over ‘non-standard’ KHS shirt
KEARNY – Public school officials are cautioning Kearny High School students and parents to refrain from doing business with an…
Kearny man found dead on RR tracks
A young Kearny man was found dead on the PATH tracks in Jersey City late Friday night, police said. Port…
Town’s lone movie house is history
KEARNY – That’s all folks! The closing credits have rolled at Kearny’s remaining movie theater, leaving West Hudson communities without any…
A garden grows
KEARNY – The transformation is pretty much complete: Lincoln Middle School’s courtyard is now fully equipped with an outdoor “green infrastructure”…
KPD blotter: The little Purple Pill
On Sunday, Sept. 20, at approximately 9:45 p.m., the proprietor of the CVS store at Schuyler and Bergen Aves. reportedly…
Cops grab accused serial burglars
KEARNY/LYNDHURST – Two men have been arrested in connection with at least 25 commercial burglaries across Bergen, Hudson and Passaic…
Blood passes evaluation as supt.
KEARNY – It took several months longer than it was supposed to, but the chief school administrator of Kearny…
State watchdog slams gate on dog park cash
KEARNY – Kearny dog park advocates will have to wait a bit longer to see their long-awaited dream fulfilled.…
Devastating fire at Laurel Ave. home
A house that reportedly was due to be sold this week was left “no longer habitable” after fire ripped through…
Kearny wins local showdown at Red Bull, defeating Harrison, 5-1
Najarro’s 2 goals give Kards victory; Kearny girls also win HARRISON – There’s something about playing at…
Coccia Realty’s Alonso July Agent of the Month
Zoraida Alonso, who for the last 15 years has been helping clients at Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate,…
‘Hamburglar’ facing theft charges anew
KEARNY – A Kearny man, nicknamed “The Hamburglar” by one of our sources, has been remanded to the Hudson…
‘Family Success’ is program’s goal
KEARNY – A single mother with two young children is managing to keep it together but is desperate to…
Meet & greet with cops over coffee
KEARNY – In 2011, police in the city of Hawthorne, Calif., were looking for new ways to communicate, informally,…
KPD blotter: Enough’s enough
At 3:30 a.m., Sept. 14, Officers Jay Ward and Dean Gasser responded to a report of a fight in progress…
Brooklyn suspects nabbed in bike thefts
KEARNY – Is there a bicycle shortage in Brooklyn? We ask because three teenage residents of that borough were…
Kearny Bank hosts networking event
Kearny Bank’s Kathy Giunta, assistant vice president and branch manager, and her staff recently hosted a business networking event in…
Leadbeater sentencing off to Dec. 14
NEWARK – The U.S. Attorney’s Office said last week that the sentencing of former Kearny Councilman John Leadbeater in connection…
Kearny girls’ soccer team rolls on
There are things you can count on happening every year at this time. You put the beach chair in the…
3-alarm fire tears through home at 199 Laurel Ave., Kearny [Video]
A 3-alarm fire tore through a home at 199 Laurel Ave., Kearny, early Tuesday morning. No…
2nd showdown for bar
A Kearny tavern that has been the target of neighborhood and police complaints is up against it, once again. The…