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By Roman J. Uschak, Staff Writer

Major League Baseball star Johnny Damon was a true hit at an assembly of more than 300 students and educators at the Walker Middle School in Nutley on Sept. 20.“Thank you for having me here,” Damon began.

“I was once a student like you, and here I am…

By Roman J. Uschak, Staff Writer

Nutley Township took a hit from Hurricane Irene in late August, following a brief earthquake earlier in the month. But before that, a group of Nutley High School student-athletes took time out to help people who were hit even harder by a tornado in the…

By Roman J. Uschak, Staff Writer

Nutley Township went indoors  Sunday for its memorial ceremony to honor the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001. The annual gathering, which is normally held outside the Chenoweth Building on Kennedy Drive, was shifted to St. Mary’s Church on Msgr. Owens…

By Patrick Bober, Managing Editor

Detective Anthony Montanari of the Nutley Police Department had only been on the force for a year when he started the midnight shift at 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 10, 2001.Detective Robert McDermott had also been working overnight.“He and I were still patrol officers, both assigned to the midnight shift for about a year, since January,” said Montanari. “We were the only two in the department that came out of the academy together that year.” The…

  Claire (Lynch) Alicknovic, 90, passed away peacefully with members of her immediate family by her bedside on Aug. 30, 2011. Visiting hours were Thursdayat the O'Boyle Funeral Home, 309 Broad St., Bloomfield N.J. Funeral Mass on Sept. 2, 2011, at St. Mary R.C. Church, Nutley.

www.oboylefuneralhome.com

  Born in the Bronx, N.Y., Claire lived in Nutley, N.J., until moving to Belleville, N.J. in 1947.

  Predeceased in 2000 by her…