A “Special” Officer’s Memories Back in the mid-1950s, the police department had 12 members. That small efficient group was augmented by “special officers” and the police reserves. Robert “Bob” Moldenhauer, 93-years old, served as a special officer for a record…

Landmark Gas Station May Vanish The long, vacant landmark service station on the Boulevard at S. 20th St. has an unknown future. Resident Charles E. Vitale, Sr., 1902-1979, built it block by block in 1925 along with the labor of…

OLD KENILWORTH: Oldest Girl Scout turns 99 Resident Edythe C. Frank joined scouting 90 years ago when in 1930 at the age of nine she became a Brownie troop member in her native Jersey City. She officially became a registered…

OLD KENILWORTH: Venters Florists – Several tragedies The Venters family came to Kenilworth from Roselle in the early 1920s. Walter D. (1886-1959) and Bertha M. (1889-1960), their daughter, Grace (1925-2006), and son Walter Raymond “Ray” (1920-1992) settled on Richfield Ave.…