Wednesday, 1 July 2020
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Vol. CXXXIII, No. 8
MORE ON THE INSIDE • With 4th of July coming,
a reminder on using care with legal fireworks. See Page 5
BELLEVILLE • BLOOMFIELD • EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY
BOLT OF MEMORIES Once-abandoned husky dies after capturing hearts of countless locals
M
ichelle Feurerstein, also known as Kathy, has a long history with dogs. And she’s perhaps best known for her role at K-9 Corner at Midland Avenue and Elm Street. But her work goes far beyond the grooming she performs there. It was a little under a month ago when she got word that there was a Husky living at a Harrison construction site — near First and Bergen. The thing was, while there were workers at the site who fed
the pooch, later identified by the name Bolt (and seen to the right) because he often took off when humans approached him, no one seemed to know how he got there. There were rumors. Some believed he might have been a guard dog for the construction site. That turned out to be false. Some had heard he got there from Route 21. That turned out to be false. But whatever the reason was, Feurerstein knew it See BOLT, Page 16
NAPD honors several officers for outstanding service By Kevin Canessa kc@theobserver.com
I
f you turn on your television at all of late, and if you tune to one of the national news network, chances are you’ll find a report about the police. And it’s likely not going to be pretty or positive news.
Yet with all that’s happening nationally, there are a lot of local police officers who are doing fine work — proper police work — and most of the time, you won’t hear anything about it. And somehow, despite all that negativity, these well-trained and dedicated officers go out onto the streets, each and every day, without
fear, while putting their lives on the line. Here at The Observer, as we did last week with a feature on the Lyndhurst PD’s bike squad, or the incredible efforts of a Kearny officer who helped a Black man and his child by giving them free groceries left over from a 7-Eleven giveaway, it is our desire to show our readers that not
all cops are like the ones we’ve seen in the national news from Minneapolis and elsewhere. This week, it’s the Valor Awards bestowed on members of the North Arlington Police Department for their heroic actions in 2019 and in one instance early in 2020.
See NAPD, Page 15
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