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• EAST NEWARK • HARRISON • KEARNY • LYNDHURST • NORTH ARLINGTON • NUTLEY
1916 Remembrance
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent KEARNY – The Kearny Board of Education has lost – bigtime – the first of two important arbitration cases initiated by the contractor it hired for a high school renovation job but ended up “terminating for convenience” in February 2013. Until the board sorts out the financial impact of both cases – results from the second are expected soon – it’s unlikely that it will be ready to award a new contract to complete the lagging project. And, if the board concludes it lacks sufficient funds from the money being provided by the Federal Aviation Administration, Port Authority of N.Y. & N.J. and state Department of Education for the work, it could end up asking taxpayers to come up with the balance via referendum. Meanwhile, the board is reeling from the three-member arbitration panel’s award of $2,975,599 in “reasonable overhead and lost profits, based on evidence submitted by claimant” to Brockwell & Carrington Contractors Inc. of Towaco in connection with the Aircraft Noise Abatement contract for Kearny High. see ARBITRATION page
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Photo by Karen Zautyk
At Nutley Irish Investiture Mass. the Rev. Thomas Nicastro blesses sashes to be worn by dignitaries in 38th annual St. Patrick’s Parade.
By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent NUTLEY – very year, on the morning of its annual St. Patrick’s Day
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Parade, the Nutley Irish American Alliance holds an Investiture Mass for the parade dignitaries at St. Mary’s Church. The 2016 Mass took place this past Saturday, and this year it had an extra
meaning, for this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Easter Rising of 1916. As noted in the parade program, this “was one of the defining moments of the struggle for
New leader at parish helm By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
HARRISON – The Archdiocese of Newark has assigned an administrator to take charge of the combined parish of Holy Cross in Harrison and St. Anthony’s in East Newark.
He is the Rev. John Carlos DeSousa, a native of Portugal whose most recent clerical assignment was as parochial vicar at Our Lady of Fatima Church (formerly Sacred Heart) in Elizabeth where he spent two years and eight months. DeSousa, 44, began his new
duties on Feb. 15, celebrating his first Sunday Mass at Holy Cross on Feb. 28. He stands in as a replacement for the Rev. Joseph Girone, who served six years as pastor until his recent transfer to St. Rocco’s Church in Union City. How long he will be staying in Harrison is unclear, DeSou-
Irish independence.” In Ireland’s long history of subjugation by England, rebels had more than once taken up arms in the name of see MASS page
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sa said, because an administrator’s term is indefinite. “This is my return of sorts to West Hudson,” DeSousa told The Observer, “since my deacon year, I was at St. Cecilia’s in Kearny while continuing my studies at the see PARISH page
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