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Thieves plunder garden By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – It’s not just the planters who’ve been hard at work at the Kearny Community Garden. Some produce plunderers have also made their presence known, according to the garden’s overseers. Strangers have boldly gone to the Passaic Ave. site during daylight hours and helped themselves to some of the fresh vegetables as they’ve ripened, said Jenny and David Mach, two of the garden co-founders and committee members. One of the victims, new to the garden this season, discovered recently that a bunch of his tomatoes had been snatched and another grower lost some of her cucumbers, the Machs told The Observer. “We had a report from one of our members that she had just parked in the nearby lot, seeing two women going up and down each row of [straw] bales with a shopping bag and taking anything that was ripe,” David Mach said last week. “And, as soon as the member got out of her car, they bolted,” he added. Mach said this incident happened within the past two weeks. A second incident, see THIEVES page
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Expect occupants by 2017: developer Photo by Ron Leir
Renovation of the old geriatric hospital should begin to extend from the outside to the interior, now that the developer has approvals for installing 245 apartments.
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent BELLEVILLE – t’s all systems go for converting the old Essex County Isolation Hospi-
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tal multi-building complex and, more recently, Garden State Cancer Center, into an upscale residential building. The Belleville Planning Board voted July 9 to grant site plan approval, allowing
the new owner, Belleville Equities LLC, of Long Island City, N.Y., to refurbish the brick exterior and create 245 rental apartments plus some commercial space for tenants.
Ekaterina Valiotis, director of property management in New Jersey for Belleville Equities, said the company was projecting “16 to 24 months” see GERIATRIC page
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A&P bankruptcy dooms supermarket By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
will be closing. How soon has not yet been revealed. Like the Kearny Pathmark on Passaic Ave. which shut BELLEVILLE – Another area supermarket is down in March 2012 and the Belleville Pathmark on Washbeing dealt a death blow. ington Ave. that folded in The Belleville Pathmark, located on Belmont Ave. in the October 2010 (since replaced township’s Silver Lake section, by a ShopRite), the Silver
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Lake store is a casualty of the bankruptcy of A&P, its parent company. In a corporate announcement released July 20, A&P said it “has executed asset purchase agreements covering approximately 120 stores at a purchase price of approxi-
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