Due to cloud cover, tonight’s (Jan. 11) viewing session at the William D. McDowell Observatory in DeKorte Park in Lyndhurst has been cancelled. The next open public viewing night is Wednesday, Jan. 18, from 7 to 10 pm

Very informative story in The Record yesterday about the 100^th Anniversary of the Lyndurst Kingsland Explosion of 1917 and resulting widespread fires as a result of espionage by German spies at a township ammunition depot.

According to the story, the bombing at the edge of the Meadowlands was part of a nationwide campaign of bombings at chemical factories and ammunition depots organized by the German government to slow American arms shipments to Russia and Great Britain and was one of the factors that led America to enter World War I.

Credit: Steve Ceragno

Join the Bergen County Audubon Society for a guided walk at Laurel Hill Park in Secaucus, next Tuesday, Jan. 17, from 10 a.m. to noon, to look for ducks, raptors and other winter birds. For more information email greatauk4@gmail.com or call 201-230-4983. Hope to see you there!