Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
NFL star charged Kenny Britt, 23, a former local football star and current starting wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans, was charged with eluding police, hindering apprehension, and obstructing a governmental function after he and his longtime friend, Jerel A. Lord, 23, of Bayonne, allegedly attempted to avoid being stopped for speeding and careless driving …
Fire Fighters rescue 61-year-old women from a high-rise fire Firefighters plucked a 61-year-old woman from a fire in the senior housing building at 535 Avenue A at about 11:38 p.m. on April 17 — although the blaze took the life of the woman’s cat. With smoke alarms going off, firefighters responded to the sixth floor …
Saying that the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority has failed to buy out its interests in a portion of the former Military Ocean Terminal or make it possible to construct other development there, a developer filed suit in Superior Court in early March. In a lawsuit that has huge implications for the cash-strapped city of Bayonne, …
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A week and a half before the start of the annual Marist High School Arts Festival, students were still working, filling the basement hall with pieces of cardboard, cutouts from old product labels, or whatever else they could get as material to make their art. Called “Art Superheroes Metropolis,” the festival seems inspired by the …
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Criminals will have one less place to hide as a result of a proposal that will provide full-time law enforcement coverage of county parks and the streets that surround them. Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari told members of the freeholder board at their March 29 caucus meeting that patrol shifts for county sheriff’s officers will …
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Trinity Carey loves social science and mythology, so when he got a letter in the mail suggesting that he might have a chance to visit Greece, he jumped on it. A student at Nicholas Oresko School in the gifted and talented program, Carey will be attending St. Peter’s Prep next fall, and can’t think of …
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Tools stolen from Wal-Mart construction site In two separate incidents, construction crews working at the site of the new Wal-Mart at Bayonne Crossing Mall reported the theft of thousands of dollars’ worth of construction equipment between April 2 at 3:30 p.m. and April 4 at 6:30 a.m. A police spokesperson said that a construction crew …
Residents flee Avenue C building at sign of smoke Tenants of an apartment building at 47 Ave. C fled when a contractor working on the roof of a second floor apartment reported seeing smoke. The fire department arrived at about 11:23 a.m. to see smoke billowing from the second and third floors of the three-story …
A lawsuit that led to a public outcry over alleged racism against city workers has been dismissed by a U.S District Court. In a ruling issued on April 1, Judge Peter G. Sheridan dismissed the lawsuit filed against the city by two former city employees, saying that although the case implied discriminatory practices in the …
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Even in the dark before the actors take the stage, the set created at the Jewish Community Center in Bayonne for the upcoming musical “Rent” seems to exude pathos, as if the backdrop of the Lower East Side plays its own role in what some have described the first of a new generation of Broadway …
Continue reading “A rock opera for this generation
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