Who was that masked man?

  By Karen Zautyk LYNDHURST –   Local police, and the FBI, are still searching for…

In emergency, pets suffer too

  By Karen Zautyk Thanks to the N.J. Department of Agriculture and the the state Office…

Referendum redux

  By Ron Leir LYNDHURST – Public school officials here are hoping that Dec. 13 will…

Kentucky Care Going Strong

By Lisa Pezzolla Last Tuesday kicked off our collections for Kentucky Care and it began with…

Singin’ in the rain & other KPD news

By Karen Zautyk KEARNY — Maybe it was a “back to the ’60s” thing. At 11:30…

Bad things happen in threes

  By Karen Zautyk NUTLEY – Two lanes on Rt. 21 South had to be shut…

Around town

Bloomfield Do you knit, crochet, needlepoint, quilt? Then come to the Bloomfield Public Library Fridays at…

A lucky escape from carjackers

NUTLEY  — This past Sunday, at 2:39 p.m., a Belleville man and his infant son had…

Phishers seem to have netted 2

By Karen Zautyk NUTLEY — In what appears to be sheer coincidence, Nutley police took two…

The bull in the East vs. the bear in the West

  By Randy Neumann Last October, I traveled to Newport Beach, Calif., (where, by the way,…

The party ended in a cell

By Karen Zautyk KEARNY – Advice to partygoers: If the neighbors complain about the noise and…

Kentucky Care 2011

  By Karen Zautyk The Observer’s 4th annual Kentucky Care Project is underway! Last Friday, the…

Nabbed in sex assaults

By Karen Zautyk A man arrested in 2008 in Nutley in the alleged sexual assault of…

Political feuding erupts anew over budget cuts

By Ron Leir NORTH ARLINGTON – This borough’s shaky ship of state has arrived at an…

How not to rob a bank

  By Karen Zautyk NUTLEY – Not that we’re speaking from personal experience, but it seems…