Garfield News

A plan to build 75 apartments on a contaminated industrial site has been approved by the City Council, but it may be some time before construction begins.

Bergen County Police hosted their "Doin' it for Danny" fundraiser to support Officer Danny Breslin at The Venetian in Garfield this past week.

Great Kills residents Nicole Russo and John J. Mattarella were married June 21 in St. Margaret Mary R.C. Church, Midland Beach.

Bergen County Police officers checking the room as more than 1,300 people attended a fundraiser Thursday for injured Bergen County Police Officer Daniel Breslin at The Venetian in Garfield.

Great Kills residents Stephanie Ann Leone and Matthew Jude Indelicato exchanged nuptial vows June 28 in Our Lady Star of the Sea R.C. Church, Huguenot.

Krista Haley and Brant Braue started Jersey Artisan Distilling, the first distillery in New Jersey since Prohibition.

Rick Rodriguez, the self-proclaimed River Man, once vowed to bring art and music to the Passaic River, and today he is fulfilling that promise.

The Kearny Board of Education's plan to redistrict schools, including creating a seventh and eighth grade middle school at Lincoln School, poses a budget dilemma for the town.

The victim of a f atal accident this morning on the New Jersey Turnpike in Kearny has been identified as a 32-year-old Turnpike maintenance worker, New Jersey State Police said.

An ordinance for an amended site plan for the former Sketchley Service plant on Cherry and Schley streets, allowing 75 rental units to be built, was adopted by the mayor and council at its July 8 council meeting.

The Wallington Police Department arrested a Garfield resident on June 19 after a search during a motor vehicle stop revealed that the driver was carrying a large bag of marijuana in his car trunk, authorities said.

At her first council meeting as mayor, Tana Raymond said she is making absentee landlords and illegal apartments a priority and asked the city attorney to find ways to take action.

Hailing from Meadowlands, New Jersey, the band AUG's second album, Be Careful What You Wish For.

The first female mayor in Garfield's 97 year history was elected at a special council meeting on July 1, despite a mixed vote from the council.

GARFIELD - Debbie D'Anthony finally has a neighborhood grocery store after a year of having her daughter drive her to ShopRite in Lodi.

The Garfield Council passed a resolution to give the Veterans of Foreign Wars $50,000 in lieu of a grant it lost while negotiating with the city over possibly buying its property.

A night of drinking among friends in the city turned tragic early Saturday morning, when shots rang out and a 33-year-old Garfield man was left to die alone, his friends abandoning him as he lay bleeding in the street, police said Sunday.