Category: Bayonne News

Rep. Albio Sires is being challenged in the reconfigured 8th Congressional District by Republican María Karczewski and Independent Steven DeLuca in the Nov. 6 election. The 8th District was formerly the 13th District until boundary lines were changed this year. The district includes a greater portion of Jersey City, less of Bayonne, and all of …

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FBI continues investigation in city hall Continuing an investigation that began in September, the FBI returned to City Hall on Oct. 15 seeking additional records apparently focused on economic development. Although rumors said that FBI agents had rolled out boxes of material from the office of Terrence Malloy, who oversees a number of city programs, …

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“The smaller pieces are the most dangerous,” Tom Tokar yelled, standing on the shore along Newark Bay at one end of a 60-yard-long section of beach behind Bayonne High School. Students from his environmental science classes picked through the refuse that the tide washed up, and even though prisoners from a work-release program had removed …

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Some stories are just too rich to have been made up, such as the tale of how Alfred and Richard Stancampiano started Al Richard’s chocolate. “We owned a luncheonette on West Side Avenue in Jersey City,” Alfred, better known as Fred, said. “We had a small candy section that measured about eight feet long. The …

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Hoping to broker a small 40-bed program into a possible national model, the Hudson County Freeholders are seeking to promote the recent successes of a drug rehab program in the Integrity House Inc. correctional facility in Secaucus. In early October, the Freeholders awarded a professional services contract with Integrity House Inc. to provide residential substance …

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O’Donnell calls for investigation of denied lunch to autistic kindergartener After learning the circumstances surrounding the five-year-old nonverbal autistic child from Matawan who was denied school lunch, Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell immediately called for a formal investigation to be conducted by the New Jersey Department of Education. The boy was in his fourth day at Cliffwood …

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Depending upon which network of unsubstantiated rumors you listen to, Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith was allegedly escorted out of City Hall in handcuffs recently while City Business Administrator Steve Gallo was grilled for hours by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But “none of it is true,” said Mayor Mark Smith last week, laughing over the …

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Arriving earlier than expected, a sunshower might have kept down the number of on-lookers to this year’s Hispanic Day Parade, but did nothing to dampen the spirits of the participants as they danced their way up Broadway from Fifth Street on Sunday. The participants celebrated their Latin heritage with high octane music blasting from speakers …

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From the minute you walk in the back door to the Eighth Street Head Start site and climb the stairs, you hear the voices – happy, chattering, laughing children’s voices – filtering down from the play area above. Normally, you might find these kids engaged in some game or lesson, but on Sept. 24, they …

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