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Milestone planning starts now KEARNY – It’s still a year and two months away but Kearny is gearing up now to mark its 150th anniversary. Kearny was formed initially as a township in April 1867, just two years or so after the Civil War ended, and it was named for the Union Gen. Philip Kearny. (Kearny was reclassified as a town in January 1899, following a referendum held that month but municipal officials are taking their historical cue from the legislative action that carved out its territory from portions of the then-Harrison Township.) No doubt local historians will offer much more enlightenment on how all of that came to be as the town’s sesquicentennial draws closer but, in the meantime, Kearny is taking steps to ensure that the commemoration is given the proper attention. To that end, Mayor Alberto Santos announced at last Tuesday night’s Town Council meeting that he has “asked our UEZ consultant Linda Kraus D’Isa to submit a proposal” for promoting this milestone. Santos said he saw no need to put out a Request for Proposals because “we know, based on past events she has worked on for us, what the see ANNIVERSARY page
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Kearny’s newest group of bluecoats are introduced to the community by Police Chief John Dowie at last week’s council session.
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY –
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earny’s newest police recruits, with tutelage by veteran
cops, are undertaking patrol duties on local streets after having successfully completed their Police Academy training and taken the oath of office at last Tuesday’s meeting of the town’s gov-
erning body. The 13 rookies are: Officers Jose Castillo, Alan Stickno, John Donovan, Andre Fernandes, Jose Perez-Fonseca, Daniel Lopez, Michael Alvarez, Darwin Paulino,
KPL tribute to American classic By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
KEARNY – There’s a new permanent exhibit at the Kearny Public Library, and even if you are not a frequent library visitor, frankly, my dears, you should give a damn.
The display -- at the Main Library, 318 Kearny Ave. -- is a tribute to one of the most popular American novels of all time. But it also honors the man without whom the world likely would never have known the manuscript even existed. Ironically, most people in
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Kearny are probably not aware that the man existed. Or that he was a lifelong Kearny resident. The book, as you might have guessed, is Margaret Mitchell’s “Gone With the Wind,” which was initially published in June 1936 and, to this day, continues to sell a reported 75,000 cop-
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Sean Wilson, Kyle Plaugic, David Bush, Michael Gontarczuk and Richard Poplaski Jr. With the lucky 13 onboard, the KPD now has a complement of 109 members, but see COPS page
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ies a year in North America alone. We don’t know the worldwide tally, but over the decades “GWTW” has been translated into 35 languages. The man is Harold Strong Latham (1887-1969), who lived at 17 Pleasant Place and was a see GWTW page
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