Ignoring Kearny’s ‘odors,’ Attorney General sues private Newark company for its bad smells

Maybe it’s about our zipcodes? Or perhaps our residents are just flowing in too much cash?…

EDITORIAL: In the real world, Marturano would have been fired for comments made to WNBC

Last week, some members of the New York City media descended upon Kearny to offer the…

Kearny boys’ soccer hanging tough at 5-1

As the 2019 high school soccer season began, Kearny High School head boys’ soccer coach Bill…

Belleville boys’ soccer: Going strong at 6-0

The Belleville High School boys’ soccer team won only three games in all of 2018. That…

Belleville back Leigh brings Buccaneers to three straight wins

Before the 2019 high school football season began, Derek Leigh kept himself very busy in anticipation.…

CLOSER TO CLOSURE

State Sen. Nicholas Sacco (D-North Bergen), along with Sens. Brian Stack (D-Union City) and Sandra Cunningham…

Lyndhurst OEM ready for any possible disaster

September marks National Preparedness Month and the Township of Lyndhurst and its Office of Emergency Management…

EDITORIAL: Facing Sacco resolution, NJSEA again has opportunity to close landfill, but likely won’t

We haven’t been this close to cap-and-closure of the Keegan Landfill in a long time. Thanks…

Golden Bears’ soccer squad purely golden at 4-0

Pardon Denis Jelcic if he’s still in somewhat of a state of shock that his Lyndhurst…

Buccaneers off to a flying start at 2-0

Jermain Johnson couldn’t ask for a better start to the 2019 high school football season for…

Blue Tide boys’ soccer endures growing pains

Mike Rusek is now considered one of the premier high school soccer coaches in New Jersey.…

NJSEA cancels meeting scheduled for Wednesday, Sept. 18, because of ‘threat of violence’

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(VIDEO) Lyndhurst’s 9/11 Remembrance

Click to watch video from the Sept. 11, 2001, Remembrance in Lyndhurst.

Images from the 2019 Kearny High School Sept. 11, 2001 remembrance

The annual Kearny High School 9/11 Remembrance took place Friday, Sept. 6, in the high school…

Blood to Murphy: Don’t mess with our students’ health — close Keegan for good

Editor’s note: The following letter was sent to Gov. Phil Murphy by Kearny Superintendent of Schools…

Visions Dance Studio kicks off 23rd year

Starting its 23rd year, Visions Dance Studio, at 202 Midland Ave. (corner of Davis and Midland…

Red Bulls offer support for West Hudson’s fight to keep Keegan closed

The New York (New Jersey) Red Bulls have come out swinging in support of the Town…

Operation Short Storm nets $1 million in marijuana; 11 of 31 arrested live in The Observer’s readership area

NEWARK — Nearly a dozen people who live in The Observer’s readership area were among 31…

It’s time for the MTV VMAs: Avoid Downtown Newark Sunday night, Aug. 25, and all day Monday, Aug. 26, Newark PD says

If your commute involves Newark in any way, shape or form, you’ll want to pay attention…

MIDWEEK RECAP — the weather, assisted death law & more

FUN IN SUMMER SCHOOL?

The words “summer school” can often invoke fear in the hearts of schoolchildren across the country.…

Now’s the time to consider being an organ donor

Last week, we brought you the story of two brothers, Michael and Will Cordoba, Kearny natives,…

Harrison’s Sowe signs pro contract with Red Bulls II & is first Blue Tide product to sign a pro contract in over 40 years

Ever since he was a little boy growing up in Harrison, Omar Sowe always dreamed of…

The sad end to a beautiful ballpark

It opened in the summer of 1999, a glistening, picturesque ballpark on the banks of the…

Dr. Daniel Sirovich, a resident of Kearny, dies after 82-foot fall from cliff in Spain: Reports

An up-and-coming doctor, originally from Brazil but who called Kearny home, and who was just days…

KPD: We caught hit & run driver

WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Kearny hit-and-run, soccer scandal in Scotland & storms a coming?

Recorded live on Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2019

OH WHAT A BROTHER!

Imagine the horror, if you would, of being given these two options in life — either…

Murphy, Prieto, Ballantyne et. al., how could you still be ignoring what we say?

Dear Gov. Phil Murphy, Vincent Prieto, John Ballantyne and every other politician who still ignores West…

Kearny kids learn track and field fundamentals

Alexander Pereyra is a 10-year-old fifth grader at Kearny’s Garfield School. Pereyra watched the Olympics in…