Forecast for bike fun: Fair in Kearny
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – From 1 to 4 p.m. this Saturday, Sept.…
The Angry Coffee Bean has so much based and local Thurs- goatbreakfast, ground, more than just coffee
By Ryan Sloan Observer Correspondent NORTH ARLINGTON – When you hear of a place that…
KPD blotter: 8 cans of tuna to go
Recent Kearny Police Department blotters have contained a number of shoplifting reports, usually involving something like…
Around Town
Belleville Confidential documents will be shredded for free on Community Shred Day (Belleville residents only) on…
Young Maroon Raider squad learning on the fly
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The Nutley High School boys’ soccer team is off…
QP girls’ soccer: Counting on veterans
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer Mike Flynn has been the girls’ soccer…
Harrison’s Huseinovic makes sure that Blue Tide finally gets a win
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It had been quite some time since the Harrison…
Then & Now
The intersection of Kearny and Midland Aves. still resembled a rural crossroads when this…
Obituaries
Robert W. Balmforth Robert W. Balmforth, 67, of Ft. Myers Beach, Fla., formerly of Kearny, passed…
Nutley police blotter: Suspect sought was already in jail
As a result of a joint criminal investigation with the Lyndhurst P.D., Nutley Police detectives have…
‘Where angels play’
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – It has been nearly a year since Hurricane…
Joyous time for Bravest
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Last Tuesday’s heavy agenda meeting of the Kearny…
Guil pleas in med lab bribe scheme
A physician with an office in North Arlington and a Lyndhurst man employed by a diagnostics…
Through tragedy comes treasure
By Anthony Coelho Observer Intern September 11 is a date that will ring an…
Neither snow nor rain nor toxic threat
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – When we first received notification of a U.S.…
It could have been so much worse . . .
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A simple afternoon errand at Walmart on Friday,…
St. Cecilia’s feeling pastoral gap
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – A Catholic parish in Kearny has lost two…
Thoughts & Views: Game, set & match: the women prevail
The other week, PBS ran an American Masters documentary on Billie Jean King, a ranking…
Dentistry on wheels arrives in Kearny
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – It’s 37 feet long, weighs 12 tons, and…
Reports from the Kearny Police blotter
A 45-year-old Kearny man was cooling his heels in the Hudson County Jail last week after…
5K KHS run deemed a success
KEARNY – You might say running is in their blood. That’s clearly the case for the…
Around Town
Belleville Confidential documents will be shredded for free on Community Shred Day (Belleville residents only) on…
Depleted Kardinals off to solid start
Graduation, injuries forcing Kearny girls’ soccer to regroup By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer It…
NA girls’ soccer: Improvement in record, new home
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The North Arlington High School girls’ soccer team won…
NA boys’ soccer: Ready to take next step
By Jim Hague Observer Sports Writer The North Arlington High School boys’ soccer team had…
Obituaries
Helen M. Bachmann Helen M. Bachmann (nee Antonovich), 89, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 12, at…
They got tools; still need firefighters
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – The federal government has rejected an application by…
‘Log-in’ required at KHS
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – When they started the fall term last Thursday,…
McDonald bid to keep presidency misfires
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – Bernadette McDonald’s effort to retain the presidency of the…
As if it were yesterday . . .
Can it really be 12 years already? A dozen years since the morning that changed…