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By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent HARRISON – It was supposed to happen April 1 but now the sponsors are predicting that the long anticipated Harrison Health Center will open no later than year’s end. Under a plan initially pitched by the late Mayor Raymond McDonough, the North Hudson Community Action Corp. (NHCAC) will be operating a “Federally Qualified Health Center,” providing primary and preventive care to low income patients from leased space at the Town Hall Annex on Harrison Ave. To that end, Harrison advertised for bids to reconfigure the 3,580 square feet of space at the annex – that will be leased to the NHCAC for $24,000 a year – to accommodate what will be four examination rooms, offices for a physician and nurse and/ or nurse practitioner, a waiting room, utility rooms and bathrooms. But the bids came in well above the funds budgeted – in excess of $500,000 – partly triggered by including displacement of a former basement bank vault as part of the job specifications, an expensive proposition. see HEALTH CENTER page
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Firefighter Mark Isabella Jr. and his parents Florence and Mark Sr. place Service Star decal on Engine 1.
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
phen’s School, watching the smoke rise above what had been the World Trade Center. That boy, now a young KEARNY – man, grew up to become a On Sept. 11, 2001, a young member of the Kearny Fire boy stared out a 5th-grade classroom window in St. Ste- Department. And in addition
to serving his hometown, he is serving his country -- as a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. Next week, he’ll leave both the town and the country, headed for Afghanistan on
a deployment that will last anywhere from six months to a year. But no matter how long he’s gone, he will be held in see MARINE page
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Township losing faithful civil servant By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
LYNDHURST – When she was appointed Township Clerk, her office was still in the Municipal Building, computers were just starting to take hold and New Jersey had just adopted
the Open Public Records Act (OPRA) six months prior. Since then, there’s been a few tons of paperwork that have passed under the watchful eyes of Helen Polito, who is now getting ready to call it a day. Polito is set to retire May 31 after nearly 13 years as mu-
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nicipal clerk and a month shy of 29 years of service with the township. A lifelong Lyndhurst resident who went to Washington Grammar School and graduated from Lyndhurst High School in 1972, Polito enrolled in Montclair State University as a home economics major
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