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Soccer fans in the tri-state area will be in for a treat on Thursday, June 2, 2022, when the Ecuador National Team takes on Nigerian National Team in an international friendly at the Red Bulls Arena in Harrison, NJ. This matchup is sure to produce some exciting soccer action and will give fans a...
The Harrison Department of Public Works (DPW) sweeps the streets of Harrison once a week. Their motto imprinted on their street sweeper is "Keeping our community clean". The DPW plays an important role in keeping Harrison Streets clean. The tradition of cleaning Harrison’s...
Delivered in December of 2018, the Harrison Fire Department’s newest addition to its Firefighting tools, is a Pierce-Arrow 107 foot Tiller Ladder Fire Engine Truck. The purchase order was signed in October of 2017 by then-Councilman Anselmo Millan as the Harrison Fire Department Chairman...
Almost everyone knows that the New York Red Bulls’ stadium is in Harrison NJ and like the New York Giants and New York Jets, the New York Red Bulls play in New Jersey. The Giants and the Jets play in the Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford and the Red Bulls play in Harrison. But...
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...
