Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Autopsy on Bayonne baby inconclusive An autopsy of a 20-month-old Bayonne boy who died from apparent injuries to his head last week was inconclusive, officials said. As a result, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office is continuing to investigate the situation. Bayonne Medical Center’s Emergency Room received the baby on May 9, after Bayonne Fire Department …
Students paraded out on to the stage at Dr. Walter F. Robinson School on April 7 wearing colored t-shirts that depicted each grade in a colorful display that spread through the auditorium and over the upturned faces of parents and students, part of the annual district celebration of the Week of the Young Child. For …
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Nine-year-old Joseph Bettios was watching TV one day in early April when he looked out the window and saw something looking back in at him. He lives with his family on the fourth floor of an Avenue C apartment building near 32nd Street. There was no fire escape near this particular window, but he heard …
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Most New Jersey students have trouble balancing a checkbook, and even more trouble understanding the complexities of investment, consumption, and savings, according to a recent study conducted by Junior Achievement of New Jersey. “Nearly half of the 1,000 U.S. teens surveyed say they are unsure about how to effectively invest their money,” said the results …
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Want to know how long a wait you have at the Bayonne Medical Center Emergency Room? If you’re in the area of Journal Square in Jersey City or near the Holland Tunnel, you just have to look at the newly installed billboards that give a live time report of how long the waiting times are. …
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Three busted for allegedly passing counterfeit $100 bills A 16-year-old Bayonne girl was allegedly used in a scheme to spread counterfeit $100 bills to at least three Broadway merchants, a police spokesperson said. The scheme became unraveled when a suspicious clerk from the Easy Pickins clothing store on Broadway called police at about 6:15 p.m. …
Bayonne development lawsuit trial sent to Essex County Superior Court Assignment Judge Maurice J. Gallipoli took it upon himself to relocate the court trial for a lawsuit brought by a would-be developer against the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority, citing a possible conflict within the court. Fidelco Bayonne Realty of Millburn and Roseland/Bayonne of Short Hills …
While many of the older students at Woodrow Wilson School in Bayonne knew that they had come out to the schoolyard to blow bubbles to make the public aware of autism, nearly all the students – young and old – understood that they were part of an effort to break the international Guinness Book of …
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In recent weeks city residents have been the targets of a media war waged by both supporters and opponents of a proposed natural gas pipeline that is currently planned to be routed through Bayonne and Jersey City and near the southern border of Hoboken. In one corner is Spectra Energy, the Houston-based company that wants …
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For the second time in the last six months, the Bayonne Chamber of Commerce has teamed up with a local charity to help bring together local businesspeople for a good local cause. Last December, the chamber met at Ten East Restaurant in South Cove Commons Mall to help generate support for the Assumption Church Food …
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