HUDSON COUNTY – There are lots of detailed stories you haven’t read anywhere else in the various editions of the Hudson Reporter newspapers this weekend. You can pick up your print edition around town, or come back to hudsonreporter.com and scroll down the page to get to the stories for the individual towns starting Sunday.
In Jersey City, St. Anthony’s basketball team won the NJSIAA Tournament of Champions for a second straight year, their 12th championship and second consecutive season without a single lost game. The cliffhanger over the fate of Christ Hospital continued, with the hospital’s creditors and Board of Trustees supporting different bids for the facility, and the bankruptcy judge presiding over the process told the bidders to revise their offers late on Friday. And the city’s cable TV franchise will be up for renewal next year, and residents and city officials have drawn up a list of demands for better service.
The Hoboken City Council approved a large appropriation to redesign two uptown parks and continued deadlocked over whether to shift money around to pay outstanding bills. Of the 51 families displaced by a fire on Clinton Street, nearly a dozen will not be able to come home for as long as 2 to 3 months.
Xchange, the community in Secaucus, has ambitious expansion plans.
In North Bergen, the commissioners authorized the Planning Board to devise a development plan for a stretch of riverfront, and continued their program of rebonding the township’s debt when interest rates are low.
The long-awaited pedestrian bridge between North Bergen and Union City is underway, so soon an unsafe condition will be remedied.
Sometimes a story just tears at the heart. In this week’s West New York Reporter, a visit to the middle school by Oogy, a hard luck dog who found a home, showed the students that even against the worst adversity, courage and spirit will win out.
And believe it or not, our political columnist Al Sullivan actually found a few Republicans – in Hudson County! – to talk with.
So pick up your local paper this weekend or look for all these stories and more at www.hudsonreporter.com.