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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...
There are history books written about the Town of Harrison and its contributions to the United States both in scientific innovation and production of goods both in peace and World War I and II. There is however a book based upon the adventures of some kids who used East Newark, Harrison,...
Harrison Mayor James Fife announced both in a robocall and in a letter posted to the Town of Harrison website that the Town will shut off the water supply from residents' homes that are delinquent in payment of their Water & Sewer bills after May 1, 2022. The moratorium on the payment...