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Fire unions accept comp time
KEARNY – The Town of Kearny has averted a pending crisis arising from depleting the overtime account for the…
Mid-Realty supports battle against cancer
Mid-Realty, 572 Kearny Ave., sponsors a fun-filled family event on Oct. 3, from noon to 4 p.m., to raise…
KPD: No holiday for Walmart suspect
The man in the mugshot accompanying this week’s KPD blotter began his Labor Day with a visit to Walmart and…
Kearny football turns to new coach Kryzanowski
After spending the last 12 years as an assistant under three coaches with the football program at Kearny High School,…
Value Act Cleaners opens in Kearny
Newark-based Value Act Cleaners plans to shake up the competition by offering a low-price strategy and same day service…
Diamond Jubilee
KEARNY – This Sunday, Sept. 13, Our Lady of Sorrows Church, at Davis and Bergen Aves., will mark its…
Showdown looming on O.T.
KEARNY – Town officials and union representatives are still grappling over what to do about finding overtime pay for Kearny…
Courtyard at Lincoln School going green with urban garden
KEARNY – As fall classes resume this month, there’ll be a new look to Lincoln Middle School as it…
KPD: Truck was weapon, fuel was vodka
Shortly before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 1, Officer Jay Ward was directing traffic in a work zone at Schuyler…
3 robbery suspects collared
KEARNY – A Saturday night party in a Quincy Ave. backyard morphed into a crime scene Aug. 29 when…
Farewell to the ‘Voice’
KEARNY – “The Voice of Kearny” has signed off. Diane Malley, who made the scene at the Kearny…
A Heaven ¢entopportunity
KEARNY – Many have been in a situation like this one — especially since 2009 when the Great Recession…
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…
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…
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…
Kearny boys’ soccer: No room for error this time
The Kearny High School boys’ soccer team enjoyed a magical run last fall in the regular season and Hudson County…
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…
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…
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…
Help keep kids safe
The Kearny Police Department Traffic Bureau is reminding residents that Kearny public schools will reopen Thursday, Sept. 10. The KPD…
They can dance with the best
Visions Dance Studio of Kearny is proud of its competition team and knows the importance of…
Another mulch fire erupts
KEARNY – Firefighters from Kearny and North Arlington battled a stubborn fire over the weekend at a meadowlands mulch company where fires…
Saluting Junior Police
KEARNY – Last Thursday evening, 50 youngsters — ages 11-13 — received their diplomas as proud graduates of the Kearny…