News & Opinion
The Town of Harrison Mayor & Council meeting will be held on Tues. Jan. 17th, 2023 at 6:30 P.M Via Zoom. The public is invited to attend and participate in the Public Session and/or the Public Session during an Ordinance discussion.
This month's agenda includes among other items:
An Appointment to...
The Town of Harrison governing body has canceled its last meeting of the year, the Harrison Redevelopment Agency Meeting, scheduled for Wednesday, December 28, 2022, and its first meeting of the New Year, the Mayor & Council meeting scheduled for Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Traditionally, the first m...
Update: Since the publication of this article the Harrison NJ Public Library has expanded its hour of operation, read all about it in our article entitled Harrison Library Changes Hours After Residents Complain At Mayor & Council Meeting.
The Harrison N.J. Public Library is open for very limited ho...
The Harrison Mayor & Council Meeting will be held for the first time in the history of Harrison on Black Friday, November 25, 2022, starting at 1 p.m. via Zoom.
There is only one item on the Agenda, an Ordinance that will repeal the current Ordinance governing the Harrison Town Clerk and replace th...
The Town of Harrison had four town meetings scheduled this week but the only meeting not cancelled is the Zoning Board of Adjustment Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, November 16, 2022 which starts at 6:15 p.m. via Zoom. You can attended the meeting through this link. You can also use your phone to ...
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 before New Y ...
Mayor James Fife, who was supposed to be an interim mayor, appears to have won his third four-year term as Mayor of Harrison. It appears Challenger Former Councilman Anselmo Millan fell short but there are additional ballots to be counted before Hudson County election officials can provide an offi...
Today, November 8th 2022 is General Election Day in Harrison and throughout the Country. In Harrison's Local Election, the only contested election is who will be the next Mayor of Harrison. If you are registered to vote, you can Vote from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. at night. By law, if you are inside the v...
Street cleaning in Harrison NJ is a ritual that keeps the Town of Harrison clean. 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 Har...
On Tuesday, October 25, 2022, an Oral Argument was heard by Honorable Judge Jeffrey Jablonski in the matter of Anselmo Millan v. Paul J. Zarbetski. The case centers around the action that Paul Zarbetski took in the Primary Election in 2018 when then-Councilman Anselmo Millan ran against incumbent M...
So the last Town Meeting of October has been canceled. The Wednesday Harrison Planning Board Meeting has been canceled. Mayor James Fife previously canceled the Mayor & Council meeting of October 18, 2022. The next meeting of the Mayor & Council is Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at 6:30 p.m. via Z...
The Harrison Mayor & Council meeting from Tuesday, October 18, 2022, was canceled along with the Monday, October 24, 2022 meeting of the Harrison Redevelopment Agency (HRA). Mayor James Fife chairs both of these meetings as the Mayor of Harrison and as Chairman of the HRA.
A controversial statemen...
