If you haven’t yet seen them, they’re disturbing. Last week, videos from several social media platforms…
Category: Opinion
Taking a look at a few things going on in the region …
The Kearny Town Council met last week, on Feb. 20, and the meeting was yet again…
Obituaries for 28 Feb. 2024
Eleanor Joan Hodson Eleanor Joan Hodson (nee Butler), 88, died Feb. 15, 2024. Born in Newark,…
OpEd — Pronti: If local leaders want to act on climate, lawsuits aren’t the answer
If there is one lesson you learn as Mayor, it is to know your role. The…
EDITORIAL — Nutley’s reinvented Neighborhood Watch should set the way
Last week, Nutley Police Chief Tom Strumolo, Det. Lt. Anthony Montanari, and Public Safety Commissioner Alphonse…
Zapata: Canessa, The Observer should really stick to old-school, fact-based journalism
To the Editor: In a recent article titled “Doyle in, Zapata out, as clerk to the…
LaClair: Division on Town Council rests squarely at Doyle’s feet
To the Editor: Contrary to the Observer’s biased and inflammatory reporting, the blame for the division…
da Silva: The Observer should report facts over sensationalism
To the Editor: I would like to express my gratitude for featuring a photo of mine…
LETTER — LaClair: Council minority, The Observer being unfair to council majority
To the Editor: Enough of the attacks on the majority of our Town Council members. For…
Obituaries for 5 December 2023
Robert R. Tarantula Robert R. Tarantula (Bob T.), 73, of Ronks, Pennsylvania, formerly of North Arlington,…
Actions of some on county committee were shameful and quite embarrassing
Over and over in the last election, we kept hearing this term bantered about. It was…
Was there anything, really, to be thankful for this Thanksgiving? Well …
Every year around Thanksgiving, without fail, inevitably, I pause and think about the year gone by…
COMMENTARY: Ficeto (finally) takes seat as DPW (and police) chairman
Things sure do have a funny way of working out for the better. Four months after…
Knapp: There are few in this world like Anthony Montiero
To the Editor: It is with bittersweet feelings that I submit this tribute to East Newark…
Thank you, Anthony Monteiro, for your remarkable service to East Newark
We’ve all heard it before. East Newark is small. Blink while you’re driving through it and…
Miller: Hey, Steve Rogers — take a hike with your cronies!
So Steven Rogers starts (his most recent Op-Ed) with a quote from Abraham Lincoln. “The dogmas…
LaClair: Rogers should check the mirror to find the root to America’s greatest problems
Yet again, Steven Rogers has taken us on a bizarre trip through the looking glass. We…
Rogers: Only the Republican Party can save America from complete destruction cause by the liberal Democratic Party
It was President Abraham Lincoln who said “the dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to…
Kearny state senate candidate Soto says Jersey schools are too liberal
To the Editor: They say the most important job you can have is to be your…
OP-ED — Doyle weighs in on Kearny’s parking problems
To the Editor: As the longest-serving member of the Kearny Town Council and a candidate for…
EDITORIAL — Parking permits, parking utility, will do nothing to improve … parking
Have you had enough time to digest the proposed parking plans in the Town of Kearny?…
OP-ED — McDonald: So far, I only see one mayoral candidate listening to Kearny’s parking woes
To the Editor: Since the meeting on Aug. 7 on the parking situation, I along with…
OP-ED — Ferreira: Here’s how the parking situation in Kearny should be handled
To the Editor: Interim-Mayor Peter Santana and the Town Council held a parking meeting on Aug.…
LETTER — Harrison woman says ‘thanks’ to Fife and Bennett for guiding her through rough times
To the Editor: I am writing this letter in appreciation for Mayor James A. Fife and…
LETTER — LaClair: First he was a Dem. Then independent. Now GOP. Seriously?
To the Editor: Run for mayor as a Democrat, get clobbered. Run as an Independent, get…
Crawford: Rents in West Hudson becoming too expensive for longtime residents like me
To the Editor: Most of the factories around Kearny and Harrison are long gone and replaced…
Op-Ed — Spence: Parking permits and parking utility will accomplish absolutely nothing beneficial
To the Editor: On Monday evening, Aug. 7, 2023, there was a special public meeting for…
COMMENTARY — IN MEMORIAM: Remembering Barbara Cifelli-Sherry, the Commish, councilwoman, mom, friend
I first met Barbara Cifelli-Sherry, who died today aged 80, in 1997. That was the first…
LaClair: Let’s give our new mayor a chance to show he can lead
To the Editor: Many people do not agree with the Town Council’s selection of our new…