East Newark News

EAST NEWARK A trouble-plagued bar in East Newark was ordered shut for six months by the Borough Council on Jan.

Maybe the next step is re-enacting Prohibition. Still trying to bottle up the tide of violations from the two remaining taverns in the borough, East Newark is hoping that the most recent disciplinary actions meted out will ring in a "last call" for wayward behavior.

East Newark is clamping down on two bars officials say have disrupted residents' quality of life in the tiny borough.

The much depleted Harrison Fire Department called in a bunch of help as flames consumed a vacant structure on December 24th.

Reported incidents of violence and vandalism at Hudson County schools increased from 734 in 2008-09 to 887 in 2010-11, a state report says.