News & Opinion
You may have noticed when walking by the Harrison Post Office that the building is named after Patricia D. McGinty-Juhl. Who is Patricia McGinty-Juhl?
Patricia McGinty-Juhl was a resident of Harrison and a graduate of Harrison High School in 1972. She went on to work for the...
The Harrison 9/11 Memorial is on the northeast corner of Library Park on Harrison Avenue. The memorial is one of the first to use a piece of the iron beams from the World Trade Center Twin Towers. A waterfall was incorporated into the beams. Given Harrison's Industrial past, a raw iron beam...
The May 7th (2022), Red Bulls game will be a special game because the first 7,500 fans in the stadium will receive a John Tolkin Mandalorian Star Wars Bobblehead courtesy of the Provident Bank. John Tolkin is a Red Bulls player who was born and grew up playing soccer in New Jersey. He has...
Three years ago on Saturday, April 27, 2019, a group of residents and elected officials organized a Protest march to the Keegan Landfill down Bergen Avenue in Kearny. The goal of the protest march was to bring attention to the need to close and cap the landfill. Three years ago, the...
Harrison High School Parents Teachers Students Organization (PTSO) is holding a 5K Run/Walk Scholarship fundraiser on Sunday, May 22, 2022, starting at 9 a.m. in front of the Red Bulls Stadium in Harrison.
The 5K will go from the Peter Higgins Blvd in front of Red Bulls Stadium on Riverbend...
Throw Back Thursday. Set off in a relatively quiet corner of the Town of Harrison is a company that started making the finest quality hand tools for upholsterers, auto trimmers, and relate trades one hundred and ninety-six years ago. Yes, we had to write out 196 years.
Established in 1826,...
Before the 1800s water in Harrison was provided by private wells on your property or by carrying water from the Passaic River.
In 1884, the Jersey City Water Company set up a reservoir in North Arlington where the present Riverview Gardens are located, and piped water from the Passaic...
Harrison, New Jersey is over 1500 miles from the headquarters of the South Dakota Highway Patrol. The distance did not keep the South Dakota Highway Patrol officers from making the trip to honor a resident for his heroic deeds.
Last September (2021), three members of the South Dakota...
The Harrison Redevelopment Agency does not want to discuss four of five promises made by the Agency at its inception in 1999. Personnel of the Harrison Redevelopment Agency no longer talk about four of the five promises made to residents and developers. The four promises no longer discussed...
Our Shop Local: Restaurant Page has been updated with an additional fourteen restaurants. Thank you to those who submitted their favorite restaurant via our Submit Restaurant page.
There are a total of Thirty-one restaurants on the page but we know there are more restaurants in Harrison...
The Burger King located in Harrison NJ is among five Burger Kings restaurants in New Jersey that will offer customers the option to purchase menu items such as sandwiches, soft drinks and coffee served in durable, reusable packaging. Customers can order their favorite Burger King items in...
PSE&G announced today in celebration of Earth Day that it purchased a state-of-the-art street sweeper to clean the streets of Harrison NJ.
PSE&G is replacing gas piping throughout the Town of Harrison as previously reported. As part of the process, PSE&G has to cut into...
