November 25, 2005. The Kearny Crew Team has launched a new website which will contain information about the crew team, its coaches, schedule, calendar of events, message board, sponsors, and official crew gear. The proceeds from the sale of official crew gear will go towards supporting the crew team.
KOTW suggests that this holiday season that you support the Kearny Crew by purchasing official gear for the special someone on your list. Click on the new website link above.
November 27, 2005. A remembrance book has been set up online by the Washington Post for Staff Sergeant Edward Karolasz. According to a post on the remembrance book by Donna Karolasz, sister of Edward, Staff Sergeant Edward Karolasz' wake will be held at the Wilfred Armitage & Wiggins Funeral Home at 596 Belgrove Drive, Kearny. Thursday, December 1, 2005 from 7-9 p.m.; Friday 12/2/2005 from 2-4p.m. and 7-9 p.m. The funeral is scheduled for Saturday.
Click Here For Staff Sergeant Edward Karolasz' Remembrance Page
January 11, 2005 (Kearny NJ), This week KOTW will reach a milestone. One of KOTW's posters will post the 20,000th post on the board. The present Discussion Board was unveiled on August 28, 2003. The original KOTW's discussion board goes back to 2000. On a daily basis, local residents discuss local and national issues. In December, the major discussion was not a local issue but a national issue: The War in Iraq. The level of discussion was impressive. Just when you think the discussions have tapered off, a new discussion thread will generate interest from posters.
KOTW's goal in 2006 is to increase its readership. Although KOTW's readership has increased in the past year, it is still a small fraction of West Hudson's population. KOTW has never advertised and every reader has found the website by word of mouth (or by searching the internet). If you conduct a search on Google for Kearny NJ, Kearnyontheweb is number 10. If you conduct a search on Google for Mayor Alberto Santos, we are number two on the list. If you conduct a search on Google for Kuehne Chemical, our Environment page is number four.
December 11, 2005 (Kearny, NJ). KearnyOnTheWeb (KOTW) was founded in 2000 and since then has grown by word of mouth. Its founder was a visionary. The purpose of the website was to provide a forum for information about the Town of Kearny and its neighboring towns, Harrison, East Newark and North Arlington. The site’s popularity grew when a message board was offered.
Today, the message board (now called the Discussion Board) is the most visited part of KearnyOnTheWeb. That fact should be no surprise since that is the area of the website where folks can exchange ideas and discuss issues effecting our community. As everyone knows, the Discussion Board is moderated – posts are reviewed by KOTW before they are allowed to be posted.
Why would anyone want to spend time monitoring posts? Why would anyone want to spend money every month hosting a website such as KearnyOnTheWeb? The reason: Someone has to keep our Democracy alive. The Internet is a great tool for doing that. When local newspapers only cover half the story or miss the story completely, KearnyOnTheWeb is there to fill in the gaps. Some wish that KOTW would go away.
January 14, 2006 (Kearny, NJ) This week has been a record week for KOTW. As anticipated, we reached the 20,000 post milestone. Shortly thereafter the record for the most users online at the same time was surpassed. There has been a slight increase in the number of viewers this week. It is not clear whether that increase is just coincidental or whether it means that some of our members are distributing the KOTW flyers. Time will tell.
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