Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Unable to sway the City Council to reject an ordinance that would gradually do away with rent control in Bayonne, a coalition of residents has decided to take matters into its own hands, seeking to let the public decide with a ballot referendum. The council introduced an ordinance in July that would eliminate rent control …
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For the first 30 seconds, the robot has to do it all on its own, no remote control help, just a pre-programmed activity on a 12-by-12-foot field of play – and engineering students from Bayonne High School have to hope they did everything right during their team effort. Built from scratch and often modified from …
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Fifty years after graduation from Bayonne’s School of Nursing, the women still talked as if they were old friends. Some had lost touch with each other over the years, but others reconnected a few years ago when attending a Bayonne High School reunion and began to keep in touch. Their recent lunch at Da Noi …
Continue reading “A tight-knit group
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Confronted with a rash of on-the-water rescues and other emergency situations, the Bayonne Fire Department has ordered a new and more up-to-date fireboat. Using a $228,196 grant from the federal Department of Homeland Security, the City Council at its Nov. 16 meeting authorized the purchase of a 27-foot weapon of mass destruction rescue vessel from …
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No charges against JC cop whose car killed 82-year-old Bayonne woman Rick Garrison, the Jersey City police officer whose car crashed in Bayonne last year and killed an 82-year-old woman, will face no charges, as determined by a review by the Jersey City Police Department. Garrison, according to his attorney, John Young, was emotionally distraught …
Tom Berton, a Vietnam-era veteran from Secaucus, gave some sage advice to students at All Saints Catholic Academy in Bayonne during the school’s recent Veterans Day commemoration: “If you see a veteran on the street, go up to him, shake his hand, and thank him.” Berton, who served two years in the U.S. Army, appeared …
Continue reading “What it all means
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The New York City Police Department on Nov. 19 arrested an alleged “al-Qaeda sympathizer” who is being accused of plotting to bomb police departments and post offices in New York City, as well as U.S. troops returning home and even Bayonne Police Headquarters. Public Safety Director Jason O’Donnell said that the Bayonne Police Department is …
Continue reading “Why target Bayonne?
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When staff members of Bayonne High School’s drama program went looking for someone to play Santa Claus in this year’s Christmas production of the musical “Miracle on 34th Street,” they didn’t have to look far. Brendan Wahlers, who took over as an English and acting teacher at the high school this year, stepped right up, …
Continue reading “Christmas music and more
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The talk is of badgers, muskrats, birds, fish, snakes – and downsizing. Sound incongruous? Not for the three women who met in Bayonne’s Sister Miriam Teresa Park recently to talk about their passion. They are women of a certain age who have been “downsized” at work, so they turned to an avocation they loved: Observing …
Continue reading “From ‘owl prowls’ to attacks on squirrels
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The Democratic celebration at The Chandelier Restaurant on the evening of the Nov. 8 election did not bring out vast crowds, just a steady stream of dignitaries stopping off for a glass of wine or a hot dog. There was no rally, no cheering crowds, no political speeches. Dignitaries from around Hudson County came in …
Continue reading “Bayonne election no surprise
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