News & Opinion
New Jerseyā€™s Primary Election Day is Tuesday, June 10, 2025, and polling locations across the state ā€” including Harrison ā€” will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Voters who are inside the voting location by 8 p.m. will be allowed to cast their ballots, no matter how long the line is.
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Over 30 years ago, David Strumolo began his service with the Harrison Police Department as a patrol officer and rose through the ranks to lieutenant. His leadership and qualifications earned him widespread respect among his peers. In 2018, when then-Chief Derek Kearns announced his retirement, the T...
For the first time in years, the Harrison Mayor & Council held a full meeting in the 2nd Floor Council Chambersā€”and it wasnā€™t standing room only but it was a very large crowd. Dozens of residents, along with a significant number of Harrison Police Officers and their supporters, packed the room on Tu...
In a town known for its transformation and ever-changing skyline of modern apartment buildings and good restaurants, Harrison, New Jersey, is also home to a troubling pattern of secrecy, manipulation, and lack of ethics. At the center of this controversy stands Mayor James Fife, who has been at the ...
The Harrison Redevelopment Agency's practices under Mayor James Fife, its longstanding chairman, continue to exhibit a troubling lack of transparency. On Monday, January 13, 2025, yet another instance emerged when the agency failed to post its meeting agenda in a timely manner on the Town of Harriso...
The Passaic River Community Advisory Group (CAG) will hold a public meeting on Thursday, December 12, 2024, at 6:00 p.m. via Zoom, to discuss the Environmental Protection Agencyā€™s (EPA) controversial plan to remove and process toxic dioxin-laden sludge from the Passaic River. The meeting will includ...
The Harrison Mayor & Council will meet at the Harrison Town Hall on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, with a 6:15 p.m. start time. As residents' interest in local governance grows, many hope the meeting will be held in the more spacious Mayor & Council Chambers on the 2nd floor, rather than the smaller Mayo...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scheduled two upcoming meetings, on short notice, to discuss sediment staging sites located in the Ironbound Section of Newark, Harrison, East Newark, and Kearny, NJ. These meetings are set to engage the public on the agencyā€™s controversial proposal to b...
The Harrison Redevelopment Agency (HRA) has canceled its meeting set for Monday, September 9, 2024, marking the sixth consecutive meeting cancellation by the Town of Harrisonā€™s Mayor & Council and other town boards. This trend of canceled meetings has heightened concerns about transparency within th...
In an unexpected move, the Town of Harrison has canceled the Mayor & Council meeting scheduled for Wednesday, September 4, 2024, marking the fifth consecutive public meeting cancellation by the town. This series of cancellations include the August 20 Mayor & Council meeting, the August 21 Harrison Z...
On August 29, 2022 (two years ago), Harrison Mayor James Fife inadvertently revealed at a Harrison Redevelopment Agency meeting what was supposed to be kept under wraps: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) planned to establish a Toxic Agent Orange Dewatering Plant at the PSE&G property on Sout...
The Town of Harrison has announced the cancellation of two meetings scheduled for the week of August 19, 2024. The first meeting, set for Tuesday, August 20, 2024, was to be a session of the Mayor & Council. The second, a Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting, was planned for Wednesday, August 21, 2024...
