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What does the No Plastic Bag Law mean to you as a consumer? It means you have to bring your own page to almost every store you shop at after May 4, 2022. Don’t expect to be given a paper bag because paper bags are also banned except for small stores. More than likely small...
The Grand Re-Opening of the Harrison Little League will be this Sunday, April 10, 2022, with a ribbon-cutting at 1 pm followed by a Soccer game at 2 pm. Only in Harrison would it be appropriate to do a Grand Re-Opening of a Baseball Little League field and have an Opening Day Soccer Game. ...
The Passaic Valley Water Commission (PVWC) announced on its Facebook page that it had “Failed to Meet Water Quality Parameter[s] (WQP) levels”. It has also posted a bulletin on its website written in very fine print that it consistently failed a corrosion control system last...
Throw Back Thursday. Today we are featuring the Harrison Fest Grand Parade & Street Festival. The Harrison Fest was founded in 1995. From its humble beginning as a small gathering of Harrisonians, Harrison Fest has grown into an event that attracts not only Harrison residents but...
The Harrison High School Drama Club was selected to participate in the Millburn, New Jersey Paper Mill Playhouse Adopt a School outreach program which offers New Jersey Public High Schools theatrical training and financial assistance to put on plays.
Harrison High’s Drama Club will be...
The Harrison Police Department (HPD) issued a bulletin on Saturday’s Red Bull Soccer Game to be held at the Red Bull’s Arena in Harrison NJ. The New York Red Bulls is scheduled to play the Club de Foot Montreal on Saturday, April 9, 2022, starting at 4 p.m.
The Harrison Police...
A short drive from Harrison is Branch Brook Park in North Newark. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect. Olmsted also designed Central Park in New York City. The park was envisioned in 1862 but construction did not start until 1896.
In...
In 1904, the then Governor of New Jersey, Governor Franklin Murphy signed into law legislation entitled “An Act to Provide for the Election of Mayors in Incorporated Towns and to Regulate Their Duties”. Under the new law, Joseph P. Riordan ran in Harrison’s Democratic...
Throw Back Thursday. This week we are featuring the Harrison High School Environmental Club and Arts Club with the assistance of then Harrison’s 2nd Ward Councilman Anselmo Millan cleaned up the entrance to and exit of Route 280 by Harrison Avenue. But the clean-up was not just...
The Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G) continues its attack on Harrison residents now opening two fronts. On March 28, 2022, PSE&G continued its excavation to install new plastic gas lines on William Street in Harrison. The prior day it had started its excavation and...
Throughout the month of April 2022, the Harrison Police Department will using special funding to increase traffic patrols to encourage drivers not to text or otherwise use a handheld telephone while driving. The campaign, UDrive, UText. UPay is a law enforcement initiative targeting...
