Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Relay for Life had a lot of support This year’s Relay for Life event on June 18 was held in memory of Michael Worosila, a five-year-old boy who fought cancer for two years. Relay for Life is done once a year to help raise funds for cancer research. This year, although economic times are tough, …
Few things could have reminded Bayonne residents of what Bayonne is all about than the July 7 fundraiser for Dawid Strucinski at the Polish American Center on West 22nd Street. Facebook, word of mouth, and news accounts fueled an emotional get-together that helped raise $25,000 to help defray the medical costs from Strucinski’s recent beating …
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When the city of Bayonne changed its budget year from a calendar to a fiscal year in 1991 to coincide with the state’s budget schedule, most local officials secretly knew that it was largely an election year stunt by then-Gov. Jim Florio to lower the state’s expenditures and make it look like the state spent …
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Local Democratic legislators were stunned last week by more than $1.3 billion in cuts that Republican Gov. Christopher Christie made to the $30.6 billion state budget through his use of line item vetoes. In making vetoes that the Democrats will not be able to override, Christie claimed the budget passed by the Democrats in late …
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A year after the Hudson County Schools of Technology board voted to do away with sports at the two countywide public high schools, Hudson County Freeholders are still trying to find a way to restore some programs. During a heated exchange between Freeholder Chairman Bill O’Dea and Schools Superintendent Frank Gargiulo at a freeholder meeting …
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Man jumps to death on Broadway An unidentified man jumped off a roof to his death at 805 Broadway at about 11:21 p.m. on July 5. A police spokesperson said that witnesses on the scene saw the man jump. No reason has yet been discovered and the matter has been turned over to the Hudson …
One dog in Bayonne, and possibly more, may have died as result of ingesting rat poison that some local animal rights activists believe was put out by property owners to get rid of feral cats. Resident Maria Perez’s dog Plato fell ill on June 12 from what she at first thought was a minor cut …
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When Bayonne High School’s tennis team beat Secaucus last month in the Hudson County Team Tournament, it was the team’s fifth straight time they had become the Hudson County Interscholastic League champions. The team achieved a record of a perfect 18-0 against other teams in Hudson County, and an overall record of 25-3 for the …
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Nobody really knows exactly what happened on that fateful day in 1994 when Black 47 played a street fair in Hoboken. Then Hoboken Police Chief Carmen LaBruno, apparently alarmed by the unexpectedly large crowd, feared there might be a riot of some sort. The police chief eventually closed down bars throughout the city. But Larry …
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Dr. Patricia McGeehan, who has served as superintendent of Bayonne schools since 1999, received official notice from the Bayonne Board of Education at its June 23 meeting that she will be offered a three-year extension when her contract expires on June 30, 2012. Under the terms of her current contract, the school board was required …
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