Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
To the Editor: The council candidate for the 3rd Ward, Debra Noble, addressed her letter to the citizens of the 3rd Ward. She met many of these citizens, who shared many of the same thoughts, ideas, and greatly appreciated their suggestions to help move Bayonne forward. What are some of these suggestions and how will …
To the Editor: According to NJN News, teachers in the West Essex School District have agreed to a pay freeze for next year. Even the district’s superintendent has agreed to a pay salary freeze. He will have to scrape by on his $250,000 plus annual compensation package. This agreement was put in place to save …
To the Editor: To the powers that be: I would like to address the idea of appointing six people at $3,000 a person to answer the citizens’ problems. I’ve been doing this for several years at no cost to the city. From Lexington Avenue, after my suggestion, finally stop signs were installed to the blighted …
To the Editor: The “Bayonne Community News” and the “Bayonne Observer” carried a news story on Tammy Blanchard, which was very nice, especially since she is our hometown starlet. Both papers mentioned that she would be appearing in a movie called “Amish Pride” on Sunday, March 28 and on “Law and Order” on March 29. …
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To the Editor: On Saturday, March 20, 2010, the Hudson County Animal League presented plaques of appreciation to Bayonne Police Officer Gene Urbanowicz and his K-9 partner, Willie, and Jersey City Police Officer Louis Mecka and his K-9 partner, Froto, at the Chandlier Restaurant. Both officers gracefully accepted their plaques, and their K-9 partners had …
To the Editor: We wish to extend our sincere thanks to leprechaun Tony De Rosa of Tony’s Primo Pizza for his generous donation of pizzas to the 56th Street Senior Center’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration. The Senior Orchestra, led by June Sturz, performed, and the audience joined in and sang and danced to the Irish …
To the Editor: Our son has attended the Bayonne Jewish Community Center for many years, in many of their great programs: Club 1050, Camp Kadimah and Indoor Soccer. The JCC is well-run, affordable and a pleasure to work with. Every experience we’ve had at the JCC has been excellent. In particular, two staff members have …
To the Editor: I have already started taking extra strength headache pills loaded from my PEZ dispenser, and the formal notifications haven’t even been announced yet for the oncoming onslaught of verbal diarrhea amongst the “candidates.” We should get that guy who announces the fights to do a loudspeaker version of “Let’s get ready to …
To the Editor: There was a time when Bayonne was known as “The Peninsula of Industry.” The exodus of industry has devastated our city financially! Most of the land occupied by industry has been bought up by out of town developers to build private homes or malls. Mayor Smith’s city letter head states that Bayonne …
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To the Editor: If 70 percent of what Wal-Mart sells is foreign made, how can raising the bridge be in our best interest? Almost every major store you shop in here in Bayonne or throughout our country has practically the same ratio of foreign made goods or products. Does China or Japan have 70 percent …
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