News & Opinion

The last meeting of the Mayor & Council of Harrison was on October 4, 2022.  The business portion of the meeting was 14 minutes and the public comment period was 27 minutes. Topics covered during the public session were the following:

• Closure of the Jackson Street Bridge for 11 hours...

At the August 29, 2022, Redevelopment Meeting, Mayor Fife stated when referring to the former PSE&G Gas Works, “Of course, you have the biggest piece Public Service,  the EPA is holding that up.  We were going to do some planning over there but the EPA is going to using it for...

The Town of Harrison has three upcoming meetings.  This week on Wednesday, October 12, 2022 the Harrison Redevelopment Agency will meeting at 1 p.m. Next  Tuesday, October 18, 2022, the Mayor & Council have their meeting starting at 6:30 p.m. and on Wednesday, October 19, 2022, the...

The Harrison Redevelopment Agency (HRA) Meeting scheduled for Monday, September 12, 2022, has been canceled.  Last week the Wednesday, September 7, 2022 meeting of the Mayor & Council was canceled as well.   The next scheduled meeting of HRA, is Monday, September 26, 2022, at 1...

The Harrison Mayor & Council Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, September 7, 2022 at 6:30 p.m. has been cancelled.  The next meeting of the Mayor & Council is Tuesday, September 20, 2022 also at 6:30 pm. Via Zoom teleconferencing.

There are other town board meetings in September. ...

The Harrison Redevelopment Agency has not met this month yet despite having scheduled two regular meetings and two special meetings.  The Regular Meeting scheduled for August 8, 2022, was canceled. That meeting was replaced with a special meeting for August 15, 2022.  The Special...

The rescheduled Harrison Redevelopment Meeting will be held on Monday, August 22, 2022 at 1 p.m. There is no Agenda published as of Saturday, August 20, 2022.  The meeting will be held via Zoom video conferencing software. To attend the meeting log in before 1 p.m. using this Zoom link...

At the Mayor & Council meeting held on Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the Mayor & Council voted on and passed 15 resolutions in less than 30 minutes. Town of Harrison meetings are not know for taking too much time but this meeting had quite a number of important Ordinances and Resolutions so...

There were three Town of Harrison Meeting scheduled for this week.  In our article Three Town of Harrison Meetings Week of Aug. 15, 2022 , we reported that there was the Harrison Redevelopment Agency meeting on Monday, August 15, 2022 but that meeting was rescheduled to next Monday, August...

In 1994 then Mayor Frank E. Rodgers after 24 consecutive terms of office, 48 years in office as Mayor retired he endorsed then Councilman Raymond J. McDonough as the next Mayor of Harrison. Mayor McDonough would serve from 1994 to February 12, 2014 a total of just under 20 years in office when he...