Garfield News

It was a sparkling evening of music, merriment and misty-eyed memories as the Clifton High School Mustang Marching Band celebrated its 75th anniversary with a gala dinner Nov. 30 at the Royal Manor, in Garfield .

Spencer Savings Bank, a community bank headquartered in Elmwood Park, held its seventh annual Thanksgiving food drive through the month of November to ensure local families in need were fed this holiday and had a traditional Thanksgiving meal.

Once Upon a Dream there was a band called "The Young Rascals" and they were so good that the Beatles actually opened for them.

If the repairs to healthcare.gov don't improve the site's performance, President Obama may have to bow to congressional pressure to push back deadlines for coverage.

Hundreds of fire engines and emergency vehicles with twinkling, flashing lights, towing floats in the form of snow globes, pirate ships, trains and gingerbread houses, populated by merry firemen who swore they were not consuming anything stronger than Red Bull.

Charlie Rigolosi, owner of Platter World in Garfield, has been selling records since 1975 and collecting them for almost all his life.

Police say they pepper sprayed and arrested a man at a northern New Jersey Wal-Mart after a Thanksgiving shopping dispute.

Primex Plastics Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of ICC Industries, Inc., is an international leader in the extruded plastic industry.

GARFIELD - A customer was arrested Thursday night at the Walmart on Passaic Street when an argument with the manager over televisions turned into an alleged assault on a city police officer.

In the early 1960s, I spent my summer vacations with my grandmother in Garfield .

GARFIELD - City police are searching for a municipal vehicle that was stolen midday while a worker was picking up trash at a park.

HACKENSACK - The killer of a 21-year-old Garfield woman said he "really loved" Viviana Tulli, in a jailhouse interview with the New York Times .

The Garfield City Council was divided on switching the city's municipal elections to the general election in November in order to save money and increase voter turnout, having two ordinances failing on introduction.

GARFIELD Excavation of about 5,000 tons of contaminated soil and concrete at the site of a former electroplating plant began this week and is expected to continue for several months, according to the project's on-site coordinator.

I should first disclose that many, many of my weekday lunches once came out of a Wawa down the street from where I used to work in South Jersey.