Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Drooling man licking car window leads to drug arrest Bayonne police said they were drawn to a car parked at 25th Street and Broadway on Feb. 9 when they saw a drooling man in the back seat licking the rear car window. When the officers went to the car to see if the man was …
Roberson Home unit for sale When the units at Roberson Home went on sale several years ago, they were snatched up even though requirements for purchasing them were very strict. Recently, one of the homes has been put back on the market and the Bayonne Housing Authority has expanded the range for qualified applicants. Applications …
Frank Perrucci, the chairman of the September 11th…Bayonne Remembers Committee, was upset when he heard that the 9/11 Teardrop Memorial on the waterfront would have to be moved as a condition of last summer’s sale of land to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. He was one of the people who had …
Continue reading “Probably won’t be moved after all
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The city of Bayonne saw a modest population increase for the second decade in row after more than seven decades of decline, according to figures released by the U.S. Census office. The figures reflected the count done in 2010. Bayonne’s official population figure rose from 61,842 in Census 2000 to 63,024 in Census 2010. “Bayonne’s …
Continue reading “Census shows gains
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These days, Alice Miesnik’s face glows as she walks through the halls of Marist High School. An assistant principal there since 1997, Miesnik became acting principal just after New Year’s, when Marist Brother Donnell Neary – principal since last July – became ill and needed time to recuperate. “In my 13 years as assistant principal, …
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Long plagued by serious problems, Meadowview Hospital in Secaucus, which is the county’s psychiatric hospital, has finally received a long-sought after accreditation that shows it has fully recovered from decades of neglect and inefficiency. “This is something very significant,” said Carol Ann Wilson, director of Hudson County Health and Human Services, who was put in …
Continue reading “At long last
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As old Mother Nature cast the Bayonne landscape into sheets of ice during one of this winter’s many storms on Feb. 1, students from All Saints Catholic Academy jumped up, down, and sideways, doing things like the “Double Dutch,” the single jump, and the swing around – not to stay warm, but to promote healthy …
Continue reading “Have a heart
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Parking meter, lot, and zone enforcement starts again on Feb. 10 The Bayonne Parking Authority announced that it will resume enforcement of certain parking regulations again on Feb. 10, at which time motorists should resume paying for on-street parking meters and spaces in municipal parking lots. Parking Authority lots have pay stations that enable motorists …
When people look back at the official opening of the Eighth Street station of the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail on Jan. 31, few are going to remember how cold it was or how the snow piles along some city streets rose high above their heads. Some people may even forget who exactly attended the unveiling of …
Continue reading “Making history
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A lawsuit filed in 2007 by the former executive director of the Bayonne Parking Authority against the city has been partially settled for in excess of $230,000. Former Parking Authority Executive Director Peter Hilburn and Felicia Ryan, an executive secretary for the BPA, filed the suit against the city of Bayonne, former Mayor Joseph Doria, …
Continue reading “Not quite over
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