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KEARNY – Real grass seems to be headed out with the dinosaurs these days for Kearny’s municipal playing fields. The town is applying for $743,000 in Hudson County Community Block Grant funds to put toward the acquisition and installation of synthetic turf at Veterans’ Field on Belgrove Drive near Bergen Ave. Veterans’ Field accommodates one Little League baseball field and a combination football/softball field. Mayor Alberto Santos and the Town Council held a public hearing on the CDBG application at the March 16 council meeting and no one from the public had any comments on it. This is the second municipal recreation complex that the town is aiming to resurface, the other being the Gunnell Oval facility off Schuyler Ave., although the motivation for that project is keyed to an environmental cleanup of the site. When all is said and done, the proposed Oval improvements, according to the town’s engineering experts, could run upwards of $16 million. The fixup would include raising the elevation of the land, putting in a pump station and drainage system and a retainsee TURFING page
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Photo by Karen Zautyk
Pictured at American Legion ceremony are (from l.): Kearny Police Chief John Dowie, Police Officer of the Year Sgt. Paul Bershefski, Firefighter of the Year Jason McCabe and Kearny Fire Chief Steve Dyl.
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent KEARNY – American Legion Post 99 on Belgrove Drive was the setting Friday evening for a
ceremony honoring Kearny’s Finest of the Finest and Bravest of the Bravest for 2014. Police Officer of the Year is Sgt. Paul Bershefski. Firefighter of the Year is Jason McCabe.
As special as the awards are, they are made more so by the fact that the recipients are chosen not by the brass (as nice as that might be) but by their peers. Each department has a committee
‘Dream’ plan nixed by council By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
BELLEVILLE – The township is retreating on one prospective real estate development front while pondering a 180-degree flip by the would-be builder on another. By a 7-0 vote last Tues-
day, March 24, the Belleville governing body rejected an ambitious redevelopment plan that pitched several thousands of housing units in towers extending up to 50 stories at the old Jacobs property at 630-632 Washington Ave. and stretching down to Main St. on the old Kidde property.
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In doing so, the Township Council turned aside a Planning Board recommendation made in December to approve the plan. In a pre-meeting public caucus, attorney Anthony J. Frese, representing O&R Urban Renewal Co. LLC, and its principal Joe Orlando, asked
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