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How Nutley’s VFW post went from nearly closing down to being nationally recognized

By Kevin A. Canessa Jr. kc@theobserver.com

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he Nutley Veterans of Foreign Wars has undergone a renaissance of sorts over the last few years and under Commander Maria Hamlin, the post’s first-ever female leader, it has seen unprecedented expansion and growth. And so, as Veterans Day approaches, we bring you this story in Q&A format with Hamlin, whose post was recently went from nearly closing to being chosen as an All-State and All-American post. 

Kevin Canessa: Tell me what it means to be chosen to be All-State and All-American? Is it a difficult process?

Maria Hamlin: In order to be chosen for All-State and All-American, a post must meet or exceed program requirements set out by the VFW. The process is not an easy one as there are many factors involved to meet each programs requirements. Included in that is membership, community service activities, work and partnerships with other organizations and of course, our community scholarship and programs such as Patriots Pen, Voice of Democracy and the Smart Maher Teachers awards programs.

KC: Tell us about some of the newer things the post is doing over the last few years.

Harrison Blue Tide win state sectional soccer title, 1-0, over Voorhees

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he images of visiting teams taking celebratory championship pictures with the “Blue Tide” sign in the background has been permanently seared into the brains of Harrison boys’ soccer coaches Mike and

John Rusek. But while the memory of three sectional final losses may be fresh in their minds, only a select few of the current Harrison players experienced that pain.

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MH: We’ve added Americanism ceremonies such as POW recognition day and Flag Day — including flag retirement ceremonies.

We have implemented a Trunk or Treat program, which is a safe way for our community’s children to trick or treat. I started that program at the Nutley Police Department when I was a detective and it was important for me to bring it here to the VFW as well.

We also collect food and clothing during our Veterans drive in November and December which is distributed to vets throughout the state at VA hospitals and facilities. We’ve also host toy drives for children and veterans’ children in need.

We’ve also partnered with the Garden State Girls Motorcycle riding club on a touch a trike event. At this event, our community can come out and sit on Trike-style motorcycles, play some carnival games, have some food and enjoy spending time with two great organizations.

We’ve (also) brought new events such as Paint and Sip and food truck events to our post and community.

We’ve worked to improve the building and the grounds with help from some major partners such as Home See WFW, Page 2

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Continued from Page 1 Depot, who built an amazing outdoor patio for our veterans during COVID; and GAF roofing and PB roofing who replaced our roof for us as part of their community give back program. We’ve also been able to replace all of our ceiling tiles thanks to the generous donation of James Alonso State farm.

Our memorial are was redone thanks to Cifelli and Son and a Nutley Rotary project led by Dorothy Huey and John Monaco.

KC: I should know this, but are you the commander?

How did you get involved with the VFW? Tell us about your own service (Military, Nutley PD, etc.)

MH: I am the Commander and was elected as the first female Commander in 2021.

Our terms are one year, so I was re-elected this past April. I’ve been a member for a while now, and previously held the office of adjutant.

Members & teens renovated and redecorated the monument on the post’s property.

Once I retired, I was able to dedicate all of my time to helping to turn this post around and as a result of our hard work, we received both All-State and All-American honors this year.

KC: What should people who may not know the Veterans of Foreign Wars know about the VFW? MH: The VFW is a nonprofit veterans service organization comprised of eligible veterans and military service members from the active, Guard and Reserve

forces. Our purpose is to serve our veterans and our community.

KC: How does Nutley’s post stand out? Sing your own praises here.

MH: We were recently told that our post was in danger of being shut down just a few years ago because we were not fulfilling the requirements set forth by our state and national offices.

Additionally, lots of folks didn’t even know we had a VFW in town.

Our goal last year was

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to become more active in the community, to ensure we were fulfilling our programming and to help as many veterans and their families as we could. We worked very hard and we’re recognized both at the state and national VFW level. Our community members now know we are here, we are present and we are ready, willing and able to help both our community and all veterans in need.

We are not a bar/watering hole. We are here to do real work for our veterans and our community!

Editor’s note: Hamlin was also chosen as the Grand Marshal for the Memorial Day Parade and her daughter sang a beautiful rendition of the National anthem.

KC: What else should folks know about the Nutley VFW? MH: We could not have

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We still have challenges ahead of us. We need to continue to recruit members into our organization so we can continue to help all veterans.

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Projects approved, new license plate readers coming

By Ron Leir For The Observer

The Town of Kearny is laying the groundwork for two big public infrastructure projects: one focused on new water service lines town-wide and the other a gateway to the Kearny Point commercial district.

At its Oct. 25 meeting, the town governing body awarded a $5.34 million contract for the first phase of a lead water service line replacements and roadway improvements project.

Under a state mandate, Kearny has 10 years to complete the phasing out of lead and/or galvanized steel piping delivering potable water to local customers.

Stephen Marks, town administrator, said ConQuest submitted the lowest bid.

Neglia Engineering will get $514,500 to manage the project.

Phase 1 is expected to target between 600 and 700 water customers spread along a radius of up to 19 blocks, according to Marks. There is no cost to homeowners.

The town is financing the project partly through bonding and partly with its annual allocation of state Department of Transportation funds amounting to $440,000, Marks said. The job is projected for completion by next spring.

Information about which streets were scheduled to be dug up in preparation for

the installation of new water pipes was provided to PSE&G “about six months ago,” Marks said, in hopes of avoiding the possibility of the utility excavating the same streets to put in new gas lines. 

The other infrastructure job is the Hackensack Avenue Streetscape project which will include, but is not limited to, full depth roadway reconstruction for roadway re-alignment, milling and repaving, drainage and utility construction, green infrastructure improvements, curbways, walkways, bike paths and streetscape elements from Truck Rts. 1&9 to the southern terminus of the avenue.

Hackensack Avenue leads to Kearny Point, part of the town’s reclaimed Hackensack River waterfront, and bills itself as the “ideal workspace environment” in a “flex building” currently leasing space to more than 200 businesses” from gyms to office spaces to cat shelters.

Marks said the project is being undertaken as a “publicprivate partnership,” with the U.S. Commerce Department underwriting $3 million and the N.J. Department of Transportation, $1.4 million.

And the Hugo Neu Corp., which owns Kearny Point, contributed in-kind services by hiring a design engineer to draw up design plans for the

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Work will begin in the spring, Marks said.

Meanwhile, the town continues to deliberate on a pair of development proposals for two properties on its east side.

ANO (Atlantic North Ocean General Trading), LLC, proposes to lease its property at 21 Sanford Ave. to Red 21, LLC, for office and warehousing space. The land lies within the Sanford Avenue Redevelopment Area and the town governing body is weighing whether to refer the proposal to the Zoning Board for a possible variance.

In a separate matter, Race Shop LLC, which is leasing 24-28 John Hay Ave., located in the Schuyler Avenue Redevelopment Area, wants to

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use a recently renovated and climate-controlled warehouse on the site “to garage high-end luxury cars such as Ferrari, Lamborghini, Maserati and Aston Martin owned by a small group of private automobile collectors,” according to attorney Gary Bennett, representing Race Shop LLC. Race Shop plans to “occasionally sell and transfer” some of these luxury vehicles “by appointment only,” Bennett advised the mayor and council.

Although car dealerships aren’t a permitted use within the redevelopment

area, Bennett argues the proposed use “is a specialty boutique dealer” rather than a conventional car dealer and, therefore, has proposed that the town consider a modification to or exemption from the redevelopment plan to allow for an application to be made to the zoning board “to address a unique type of business.”

The council also authorized the KPD to apply for $87,588 in fiscal 2021 American Rescue Plan Coronavirus funding to acquire six automated license plate readers.

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ast Newark has a new borough administrator — the fourth occupant of that position since Dina Grilo took over as mayor in 2020.

Fred Confessore, a member of the Harrison Board of Education for whom he served as assistant superintendent many years,

was named to fill the post by the Borough Council on Oct. 14.

He takes over for Ron Edwards, who left recently to take the job of assistant commissioner of the New York City Department of Corrections. Edwards had replaced Robert Dowd, the retired North Bergen chief of police, who left East Newark after only a few

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months on the job to write a textbook on criminal justice.

Dowd’s predecessor, Kevin Catrambone, also of Harrison, now serves as the borough’s director of special projects.

Don’t expect Confessore to stay very long, either, and don’t look for him at Borough Hall. He’ll be working remotely for the next few weeks.

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Evaristo said the appointment of the former longtime educational administrator and longtime Harrison High hoops coach was envisioned as “short-term only” until the borough finds someone permanent.

“We’ve advertised but we didn’t get anyone qualified,” Evaristo said. So, in the meantime, she said, the mayor felt Confessore would serve as a reliable temporary caretaker to monitor the borough’s dayto-day business.

State statute 30.13 says a municipal administrator “shall be chosen solely on the basis of his or her executive, administrative and managerial qualifications as judged by the adequacy of his or her training and his or her successful experience in private or public administration.”

In the meantime, Evaristo said, the borough will continue its search.

Other objectives the borough is pursuing include: n Completion of upgrades to the municipal Recreation Center such as a new roof, new flooring, new electrical system and a new classroom for accommodating preschool children. “We’ve been waiting for grant money for two years to do the improvements,” Evaristo said.

Now the funds are available, she said. When the work is done, she added, the borough school will resume using part of the space as a gym. n Redevelopment of the old St. Anthony’s School/ Community Center to accommodate construction of six 2-family homes. Four

residential structures will front on John Street and two will face out along North Second Street. Landscaping and garages will line up along Sherman Avenue. A contractor has leveled the site to prepare the foundation but little activity has happened since then. n The borough has sold two of its properties for development but, so far, nothing has happened. The purchaser of the former municipal garage on Grant Avenue planned to build homes on the site but reportedly has failed to meet a deadline to come up with a down-payment, Evaristo said.

And the former Valley Bank on Frank E. Rodgers Boulevard— which the borough bought a few years ago — was sold to a Kearny restaurant owner who, according to Evaristo, had made “no firm commitment” to go through with the deal. n There are plans to hire a part-time parking enforcement officer but Evaristo said that’s likely contingent on the borough first installing parking meters along the Central Avenue business district. Residents won’t have to put money in the meters, she added. n Redevelopment of the old Clark Thread mill along Passaic Avenue is proceeding with several hundred apartments, mostly rental; ground-floor retail, garden space and a fitness center that will also offer memberships to the general public at what Evaristo called “very small fees.” The project is expected to be completed by 2027.

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Belleville Historical Society restores little-known Kearny monument

By Kevin A. Canessa Jr.

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t’s been there for three quarters of a century.

Thousands drive past it every day. But you have probably never seen it. That is unless you regularly walk Schuyler Avenue near CVS and Seabras Supermarket. It is a monument to employees of the Pollak Manufacturing Company, once a major stronghold on Schuyler near Bergen Avenue in Kearny and according to a local historian, it was a major defense contractor during World War II. Belleville Historical Society President Michael Perrone says Pollak was a manufacturer of munitions for the Army and Navy and was recipient of the Army and Navy’s highest awards for their war-effort production. Many of the young men employed by Pollak enlisted in the service

during the war and 28 of them lost their lives.

In 1946, in memory of their fallen co-workers, the surviving employees of Pollak erected a monument consisting of a reddish concrete column with a large, finely detailed engraved plaque with four soldiers and the names of the 28 lost men.

Originally, the monument also anchored a flagpole.

What makes the monument unique, according to Perrone, is the plaque is not made of bronze or brass like other plaques.

“When we first visited the monument, we couldn’t understand why the column was constructed of a reddish concrete. But after we began cleaning, we were shocked to see that the plaque was not bronze or brass but was instead made of copper, which explained the matching reddish concrete,” Perrone said. “We had never seen or heard of a plaque being made of copper.”

Copper is a soft metal and difficult to cast, and during the war years, was very hard to come by as it was used for manufacturing munitions and other military equipment.

“We have restored many military plaques over the years and they are all either

bronze or brass — except this one,” Perrone said. “It became apparent to us that the employees of Pollak had used some of their war effort copper stock to create the beautiful plaque in tribute to their fallen friends.”

The monument rests on property now owned by Russo Development. The Belleville Historical Society reached out to owner Ed Russo, who Perrone says

graciously accepted the society’s offer to restore the memorial. The society has restored more than 50 veteran and military monuments over the past few years, all free of charge.

“There are very few options out there when it comes to restoring a monument or plaque.

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Opinion & Viewpoints EDITORIAL

What is going on in East Newark? 4 admins in 2 years?

Ron Leir has a story in this week’s edition of The Observer that explains how Fred Confessore, a long-time Harrison educator and administrator, has been hired to be East Newark’s new business administrator.

This is a smart hire, because Confessore knows this area and has run a school district. In essence, he has experience running something bigger than the Borough of East Newark — so we’re confident he will get the job done and get the job done well.

What we cannot help but notice, however, is the sheer reality Confessore is the fourth administrator in East Newark since Mayor Dina Grilo took office Jan. 1, 2020.

One of the administrators, Robert Dowd, is a retired police chief who is also a New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority commissioner. He lasted a grand total of four months. And when he left, he kindly said he was doing so to “write a criminal justice textbook.”

A textbook!

We’ve heard reasons for leaving a job before, but this one was alarming. It is even more alarming because Dowd’s predecessor and successor both left the position after a very short amount of time. And the same may now be said of his successor.

This merry-go-round of business admins leads us to believe there is much more than meets the eye here. East Newark is not a large municipality — so even the least-tested admins should be able to handle the day-to-day operations of a borough you miss if you blink as a passenger in a car.

So what is it that makes this seat so volatile? We’d love to know, but since she took office just under two years ago, the mayor has not spoken once to this newspaper, has made no effort to do so and has run her municipality via social media almost two years. When she took office, we told her we’d like to interview her. That was April 2020. She replied, “maybe in September.” Needless to say, September came and went. No interview.

So anyone out there reading this ­— what’s going on in East Newark? We can only help Fred Confessore puts an end to this revolving nonsense.

We know he can do so, but will he get that chance?

Anderson shares prayer he offered for victims of Sept. 11, 2001, attacks To the Editor: Almighty God, creator of humankind and all nations, it is with sorrow that we remember the tragic events on the day of Sept. 11, 2001.

We lift to you in prayer for all those who have died on American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, the WTC Twin Towers, American Airlines Flight 77, the Pentagon, United Airlines Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

May the souls of those faithfully departed be with You in paradise.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR We also lift to you in prayer for our beloved Harrison resident Fabian Soto who died in the Twin Towers. May he rest and abide upon the Throne of Heaven. Console the families, friends, and all those who mourn and remember their beloved fallen in the hope that all who trust in You find peace and solace in Your Kingdom.

We pray for those who courageously responded to provide aid and comfort to the afflicted, especiallythe 353 FDNY firefighters, 23 NYPD police officers, 37 Port Authority police officers and all other first responders who died in the line of duty on 9/11.

May perpetual light shine upon them for all eternity.

We pray for all those who were injured on that day of 9/11 for strength, healing and recovery.

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Ferreira: Park named after Santos? Will Kearny Ave. soon be Santos Boulevard?

To the Editor: The Kearny Library named its new Children’s Park after Mayor Alberto Santos.

As The Observer pointed out, normally parks, plazas, buildings, and monuments are named in honor of someone who has passed (or after they retire from their position).

Al Santos is still alive

and currently serving as mayor. There are plenty of other residents to honor this way, who are not sitting politicians and who have served this community well.

What’s next? Will they rename Kearny Avenue and call it Al Santos Boulevard, as Harrison did for Frank E. Rodgers?

I think our town needs to start moving beyond the

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Santos era and from under his shadow, and we need to start creating a new identity for ourselves, before we turn into Santos City. Mayor Al Santos should have declined this. The park should be given a generic name, until the mayor leaves office, and then perhaps it may be dedicated in his honor.

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KPD: Brother officers, both former college rugby players, team up to tackle and arrest fleeing shoplifter

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n Oct. 27 at 3:14 p.m., Officers Mathew Lopez and Alan Stickno were dispatched to Walmart where a loss-prevention associate had an alleged shoplifter under surveillance.

The associate reported the suspect was known by store staff from prior incidents and he was currently observed concealing merchandise in a backpack.

The officers and associate confronted the suspect near the store exit, but he ran into the parking lot with $571.56 of unpaid-for merchandise.

Later identified as Andre E. Lutas, 33, of Newark, the man allegedly ran across the parking lot and hid behind parked cars. Officer Stickno flushed him from his hide, but Lutas again ran from him. Not to be outdone by the earlier efforts of his brother Ryan — both brother officers are former college rugby players — Officer Alan Stickno tackled Lutas on the run and arrested him. Lutas was charged with shoplifting, resisting

arrest and obstructing the administration of law. He was later held at the Hudson County Jail.

On Oct. 22 at 12:15 a.m., Officer Lawrence Latka and several backup officers investigated a report of an occupied vehicle stopped in the middle of John Hay Avenue with its passenger side tire blown out. Officer Latka found the car, a Honda Accord, parked diagonally in a residential handicapped parking space. The driver was reportedly asleep in the driver’s seat with his head back and his mouth agape.

The passenger side tire was shredded and the passenger side doors had sustained damage consistent with the car having been driven on the flat tire.

Officers Latka and Michael Ore woke up driver Edwin M. Ajualip Taperia, 29, of Ridgefield, who reportedly had an open bottle of Modelo beer in his center console. Observing signs of impairment, the officers administered field-sobriety tests Taperia could not pass.

They arrested him for DWI and operating with an open container of alcohol. Taperia

possession offenses.

He was later transferred to the Hudson County Jail, South Kearny.

On Oct. 23 at 7:25 p.m., I detained Moussa On Oct. 24 at 8:17 a.m., Camara, 21, of Newark, after Officer Ellesse Ogando a ShopRite manager found and Sgt. Phil Finch were Camara allegedly attempting dispatched to BJ’s Wholesale to exit the store through the Club at the request of store entrance door with $115.56 management. The manager of unpaid-for health and pointed out Frankie R. Crane, beauty products inside of two 48, homeless, who was asleep backpacks. Officers Bismark near the store exit on a hand Karikari and Michael Ore cart used by customers to later responded and arrested carry groceries. The manager Camara for shoplifting. had reportedly warned Crane Camara was charged via on prior occasions he is not Michelle advertising@theobserver.com 201-991-1600 summons on the Kearny permitted on the property. offense. However, he was Officers arrested Newspaper: Client: Crane for turned over to the Essex defiant trespass. Incident County Jail because he to which, they found in his was wanted by the Newark pockets vials containing was later released with Municipal Court (NJIT white residue, a wax fold of summonses.

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Doors to new athletic training facility in Belleville open

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ngelica AllenMcMillan shifted her weight to her left, cocked her right leg back and, with a mighty blow, sent the ball hurtling over the soccer net.

The State Commissioner of Education and several Belleville High School soccer players were trying out a piece of equipment specially imported from Europe to hone accuracy and dexterity – and having a great time doing it.

“I am so impressed with this facility,” she said, laughing.

So were State Senate Majority Leader Teresa Ruiz, D-29, Board of Education members, local officials, high school athletes, alumni and members of the community who attended a ribbon-cutting

ceremony Saturday, Oct. 29 at the Belleville Indoor Training Facility on Cortlandt Street.

Superintendent of Schools Richard Tomko led AllenMcMillan and others on a tour of the 25,000-squarefoot space in a converted warehouse designed for the district’s high school athletes, as well as those weekend workout warriors throughout the township.

The facility includes a workout room with equipment ranging from a golf driving simulator to chest presses to rowing machines, two wrestling rooms and an all-purpose room with hardwood floors.

But perhaps the centerpiece of the Belleville Indoor Training Facility is a cavernous, carpeted space for soccer training, batting cage sessions, track and field drills, football practice and more. It

The new training facility is equipped with rowing machines and other workout equipment.

could even host kids’ birthday parties. Or obstacles may be hung from the exposed rafters and the space could be a training ground for drone enthusiasts, honing their skills.

There’s even a waiting lounge with vending machines for parents to watch TV or work on their laptops while their young athletes play.

Tomko said the cooperation of Belleville Township was crucial, and thanked Councilman Vinny Cozzarelli for suggesting this space as a potential home for a training

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At its core, the Belleville Indoor Training Facility provides a great, local space for Belleville’s most precious resource – it’s children – to be, well, children.

“Coming out of the dark days of the COVID-19 pandemic, our school district has focused on the social/ emotional wellness of our students,” Tomko said. “We looked around for what we could do for the children in this community, and we thought this training facility would make a huge impact on generations of Buccaneers.”

Or as Ruiz put it, “How wonderful it is now that when it’s colder outside or if it’s raining, you can still do drills inside of a facility that was built specifically for children.”

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Velez, the board member who serves as the athletic committee’s chairman, said there were tires and car parts strewn about when he and the other board members first toured the warehouse.

“We had no idea that all of this would be reshaped in such a great way,” he said.

Muñiz said the district has received a lot of contributions from Belleville High School alumni and vendors.

The school board is exploring ways to generate revenue, such as offering advertising space on the facility’s walls and collecting dues from sports leagues who want to call the facility home.

Eventually, a schedule will be published on the Board of Education’s website showing when the facility is open for drop-ins and when a portion of it will be occupied.

“The goal is to serve our students and our community first,” Muñiz said. “We know this facility will be popular with, for instance, soccer players in the area.

“There are very few indoor training venues like this in the area. It’s perfect for Belleville.”

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Mullen commits to Virginia Tech was 5.

“My dad would always come home and say ‘you Throughout Jimmy gotta see Jimmy! You gotta Mullen’s college recruiting see this kid!’ and he would process, there was always get pretty jacked up about the lingering question of him,” Carratura Jr. said. whether or not he would “My dad would be ecstatic eventually have to make the about it right now because difficult decision between he always said Jimmy was football or wrestling as the going to be something. He sport he would compete in really saw something speat the next level. cial in him the moment he As fate would have it, started coaching him.”

Mullen won’t need to make Since those early days at a choice between the two the Lincoln Middle School any time soon. gym practicing with fellow Mullen, a Kearny native Kearny native and current and two-sport star at St. JoCornell University star seph Regional High School Jacob Cardenas under the in Montvale recently comtutelage of the Carraturas mitted to wrestle and play and current Kearny assisfootball at Virginia Tech. tant Brian McDonnell, MulAccording to Mullen, Virlen has developed into one ginia Tech was one of three of the country’s premier schools that offered him the wrestlers. opportunity to compete in Mullen became the first both sports simultaneously, freshman to ever win the the others being Rutgers NJSIAA State Wrestling and Army.

Championship at 285 “It definitely takes a lot pounds in 2020 when he of weight off of my shouldefeated Southern Regionders knowing I don’t have al’s J.T. Cornelius for the to give up a sport that I’ve title. been doing since I was As a sophomore, during 5-years-old,” Mullen said. the COVID-shortened “They’ve both been a big season, Mullen elected to part of my life and done so forego the state tournament much for me. in order to try out for a spot “As long as I can rememon Team USA in the Junior ber my favorite sport was World Championships. football during the football Mullen made the team and season and wrestling during won silver at the event in wrestling season.”

Budapest.

That Mullen was able to Last season, as a junior, make a college commitment he once again won a state of this magnitude comes title at 285, defeating Beras little surprise to those gen Catholic’s Dom Brogna in Kearny that have known by pin in the final. him the longest. Current Mullen enters his senior Kearny High School head season as the nation’s topcoach Tony Carratura Jr. ranked high school heavstarted coaching Mullen on yweight wrestler and No. the recreation level when 5 overall by Flo Wrestling. he was 10, but knew of The site also has Mullen as the legend of Mullen well its top overall wrestler in before then thanks to his New Jersey. late father, Tony Sr., who See MULLEN, Page 10 worked with him when he

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CHAMPS

Continued from Page 1 any of that stuff,” Mike Rusek said about the three previous sectional finals losses on its home turf. “So for John and I it’s been a weight on our shoulders, but the good thing about Harrison kids is that they’re very resilient and very forgetful.”

Unbothered by past heartbreak from those before them, this group of Blue Tide players were able to create their own championship pictures.

Spurred by Diego Flores Sanchez’s first half goal, Harrison won its first state sectional championship since 2016 with a 1-0 victory over Voorhees in the North 2, Group 2 final in Harrison on Saturday night.

“These kids just came out to play today,” said Rusek. “I think we had the best game of our year and it was the right time for it.”

“Voorhees came in strong, but we weren’t here to lose,” Flores Sanchez said. “We were here to win. We’re Harrison and we love to win.”

Harrison possessed the ball in the upper-third for most of the night, consistently swinging the ball in and around the 18.

After a few good opportunities failed to result in a goal, the Blue Tide broke through in the 15th minute when Fabrizio Sousa sent a cross from the right side into the box. The pass found Flores Sanchez, who from less than 10 yards out, sent a right-footed

shot into the open net.

“I saw the ball coming to me. I touched it then banged it near post,” said Flores Sanchez about his ninth goal of the season. “It felt amazing. We felt that we could win this game and that gave us more confidence.”

Flores Sanchez’s goal proved to be enough, even against a team with the offensive firepower of Voorhees. Ismael Kone, who took over as the fulltime keeper at the start of the state tournament, made a huge save on German Burset Romero in the 20th minute.

“I was really confident because we’ve been working all year for this,” said Kone, who posted his second consecutive shutout of the state tournament. “We knew we had it, but we had to be dedicated to it. We had to put the work in and we’ve been practicing every day for it.”

After that scare, however, offensive chances were limited as seniors Augustin Nunez, Dylan Huseinovic and Deangelo Vargas were stellar on the backline as well as Gabriel Barreto-Reis and Andy Abarca, who helped out back there in key moments.

Their play in the back allowed Harrison to continue pushing players up to be a part of its possession-based attack and dictate the tempo for nearly the entirety of the second half.

Winning a sectional championship is the goal every year in Harrison, but for many, the expectation is to win a state championship. It’s a standard

that is the byproduct of nearly a century of soccer success with 25 state championships.

The Blue Tide’s quest for a 26th title continues Wednesday, Nov. 9, when it hosts Ramsey in the Group 2 semifinals. A victory then means a trip to the state final Sunday, Nov. 13, at Franklin High School in Somerset. “(Rusek) said that this group had to win the states because there’s so much talent here,” Kone said. “We knew we were going to go far. There was a lot of pressure, but we’ve handled it well (so far).”

Attention to winning that state championship and the upcoming match with Ramsey surely began on Sunday morning. But this particular Saturday night was about what this team had done, rather than what’s still to come.

Another team got to celebrate a sectional title with the Blue Tide sign.

But this time it wasn’t an unwelcome visitor, but rather it was Harrison adding to its championship legacy.

“I’m really proud of these kids,” Rusek said. “We had our difficulties this year, but these guys are fighters. They’ve been fighting through everything and I think it was the fighting that we did in September and October that led to our victories here in November. I really can’t say enough about this group.

“Every year you’re proud of your kids and you want to see the best for them. This group earned it, maybe more so than any group I’ve had.”

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MULLEN

Continued from Page 9 Even as wrestling has and will continue to take Mullen all over the world, he still makes sure to represent his home town at each tournament.

“I represent Kearny wherever I go,” Mullen said.

“Every tournament from states to when I compete nationally I always carry a Kearny shirt with me.

“Jacob and Coach Tony have done so much for me on the wrestling mat for me.

I always know that’s where I started. It’s not all St. Joseph or the national tournaments, it’s been the Lincoln Middle School gym.”

While wrestling has made the 6-foot-2, 250-pound Mullen a national figure, it has perhaps resulted in him being under the radar as a football recruit. This season, Mullen, in his third year as a starter, has 71 tackles, including 26 for loss, and 7 ½ sacks for the Green Knights

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heading into their NJSIAA Non-Public A quarterfinal game against Seton Hall Prep.

Rivals has Mullen ranked as the No.26 player in New Jersey and Lyndhurst’s David McCarthy of The

McCarthy Report described Mullen as a “Super-impressive young athlete.

“At defensive end, Jimmy is brutally strong and physical at the point of attack and can set the edge against anyone.”

Growing up, Mullen also played baseball, basketball and soccer as well. Soccer then basketball were the first two to go by the wayside. While Carratura said he was just as good at baseball as he was at wrestling and football, Mullen decided to shift his focus away from it heading into high school.

“I knew when I got to high school I really wanted to focus on these two sports (football and wrestling). I think these are my favorite two that I truly love and I wanted to get after it,” Mullen said. “If I just kept my focus on both sports, I figured I’d probably have the opportunity to do one or the other (in college). I’m grateful to have the opportunity to do both.”

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Kards’ 36-game unbeaten streak comes to crushing end in 1-0 loss to West Orange

By Jason Bernstein jason@theobserver.com

The Kearny boys’ soccer team saw its season and its 13-plus month unbeaten streak come to an end in gut-wrenching fashion on Wednesday, Nov. 2, when the Kardinals were defeated

by West Orange, 1-0, in the NJSIAA North 1, Group 4 semifinals in West Orange.

In the 61st minute Jack Dvorin headed in a Mason Bashkoff service into the box for the game’s lone goal, denying Kearny’s hopes of a second-consecutive Group 4 state championship.

The defeat snapped

Kearny’s 36-game unbeaten streak, a stretch that included a 2-1 win over West Orange in last year’s North 1, Group 4 final.

The Kearny boys weren’t the only local soccer team to see their season end in the sectional semifinals. North Arlington saw its North 2, Group 1 title hopes dashed when Glen Ridge scored a pair of second half goals to earn a 2-1 victory over the Vikings on Wednesday.

The Kearny girls also saw their tournament come to an end when it dropped a 2-1 decision to an undefeated Ridgewood team, ranked No. 4 in the state by NJ.com.

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Kone’s play in net was instrumental in the Blue Tide’s first sectional title since 2016 and makes him The Observer Athlete of the Week.

“We noticed in practices and in the recent games that Ismael is just a bigtime gamer,” said Rusek. “At Harrison, we’re not known for shutouts that’s for sure, but when you have a kid like that in goal, you do feel like we can pull off a shutout today, even against an offense like (Voorhees).”

Voorhees scored 13 goals in its first three state tournament games and presented one of Harrison’s greatest challenges this season.

Shortly after Harrison took a 1-0 lead, Kone made a crucial stop in the 20th minute when German Burset Romero ripped a left-footed shot from the right side of the field toward the near post to preserve the lead.

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A few days before the start of the state tournament, Harrison coach Mike Rusek told his goalkeeper Ismael Kone the words his junior had dreamed of hearing since he was a freshman — you’re the starting goalie.

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“He told me when we made the states ‘hey man, this is your job and you got to focus now. You’re going to be the starting keeper,’” Kone said. “I was like, ‘alright, I’m going to get the job done.’ I was excited. It was my dream since freshman year to be the starter. Now that I’m a junior, I got the starting position.”

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“He’s been very clutch,” said junior captain Diego Flores Sanchez, who scored the lone goal of the night.

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For the season, Kone has made 65 saves for Harrison.

As a sophomore, he made 55 saves in a part-time role as the backup to Emiliano Torres.

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“After the first shot, I realized this was serious,” Kone said. “I had to wake up, I had to focus for the entire game.

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15 Native Kearny son named Minneapolis Police Chief

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ne of the most embattled police departments in America has a new police chief and he’s a Kearny son and graduate of Kearny High School.

On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Minneapolis City Council approved Mayor Jacob Frey’s nomination of Kearny native Brian O’Hara, Kearny HS Class of 1997, to serve as police chief.

O’Hara joins the city after serving as deputy mayor of Newark, in charge of overseeing strategic public safety initiatives, and before that, having served as Public Safety Director in Newark.

He officially starts his new role Monday, Nov. 7.

In 2001, O’Hara joined the Newark Police Department as a police officer, rising through the ranks to become a captain in 2016.

In 2021, Mayor Ras J. Baraka appointed him to the public safety directorship, where he oversaw more than 1,960 employees comprising 996 sworn police officers, 611 firefighters and 346 civilian employees with a budget that exceeded $200 million.

In that role, O’Hara enhanced the

O’Hara, at podium, addresses the Minneapolis media.

collaborative working relationships among federal, state and local partners.

As former captain of the Newark PD’s Consent Decree & Planning Division (2017-2020), O’Hara worked extensively with the Department of Justice on the 2016 consent order between the feds and the City of Newark.

In Minneapolis, the chief of police position is carries a four-year appointment.

“This moment matters,” Frey said.

“The act of stepping up for this job – at this time – is an act of courage, and Brian O’Hara is exactly the type

of person our city, our community, and our police department needs right now. He is an inclusive leader, a forward thinker and a person of the highest moral integrity. His unrelenting willingness to show up and be present will allow him to succeed in driving police reform, reducing violent crime, and strengthening police-community relations. I look forward to witnessing Chief O’Hara’s legacy in Minneapolis.”

Frey was Minneapolis’s mayor when George P. Floyd was killed under the knees of that department’s former officer Derek Chauvin on May 25, 2020. Chauvin was convicted of

murder in 2021 and was sentenced to 22½ years in prison.

But the damage done to the department as it was constituted at the time time was too severe to recover without a change in leadership. And Frey, the city’s popular mayor, chose a Kearny native to implement those reforms.

“I believe that things happen for a reason,” O’Hara said. “I believe very deeply that the experiences that I have had in the City of Newark, working with community and working with police officers to bring about some meaningful changes, are experiences that are directly applicable to the current challenges that are facing the residents of this community. I’m incredibly honored and humbled to have the opportunity to be part of the change here in Minneapolis.”

O’Hara replaces the former chief, Medaria Arradondo, who was at the helm at the time of Floyd’s death.

In a rare move, Arradondo testified against Chauvin at trial.

Arradondo was appointed chief in 2017 and retired Jan. 15, 2022.

He was the first and only Black chief of police in Minneapolis history.

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TECHNICIAN MIS The Town of Kearny seeks a fulltime Technician MIS. The position will be responsible to ensure the stable operation of the municipal computer networks. Duties include maintaining, configuring, installing, supporting, planning, developing, and optimizing all network hardware, software, and communication links. The Technician MIS will also analyze and resolve end user hardware and software computer problems in a timely and accurate fashion and provide end user training where required.

Salary range ($45-843-$69,146). For NJ CSC job description: https://info.csc.state.nj.us/jobspec/53099.htm For applications and instructions: https://www.kearnynj.org/job-opportunities/.

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For application and instructions see analyze and resolve end user hardware and software Must have basic office skills, bi-lingual Spanish Preferred. https://www.kearnynj.org/job-opportunities/ computer problems in a timely and accurate fashion and College Graduate in one of the social sciences. Some The following residential preferences shall apply: provide end user training where required.

Travel involved Monday-Friday approximately 10 hours 1. Residents of the Town of Kearny and the City of Salary negotiable depending upon qualifications. per week Hours may vary Must possess a valid Newark; 2. Residents of Hudson and Essex Counties; 3.

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Styple, who has written, cowritten and edited more than 20 works on the U.S. Civil War, will deliver prepared remarks and then field questions from the audience.

Copies of the 880-page biography of Kearny, who commanded the 1st New Jersey Brigade in the Civil War and for whom the Town of Kearny takes its name, will be

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The book represents the culmination of more than half a century of research by Styple on Gen. Kearny, an heir to a fortune who forsook a career in law for the battlefield.

The program begins at 1 p.m. at the upstairs museum in the Kearny Public Library, 318 Kearny Ave. The session runs through 2:30 p.m.

Those planning to attend are asked to RSVP to the library by visiting www.kearnylibrary.org or by calling 201-998-2666.

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