Category: Bayonne News

Firefighters from Local 11 of the Bayonne Fire Department decided this was a good year to help collect toys for Bayonne kids. With the economy poor and people out of work or short on resources, these firefighters decided that Santa needed a little extra help this year. So on Dec. 18, four firehouses collected donations. …

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Winter storm update in Bayonne The city’s combined snow removal efforts continued into Tuesday, Dec. 28. Snow plows and salters continue to address snow on side streets and main thoroughfares. Snow was expected to be removed from Avenue C, Broadway, Avenue E and Avenue F on Tuesday; and Avenue A and Prospect Avenue on Wednesday. …

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The superintendent of the Bayonne schools doesn’t want a new charter school in the district, she said at last week’s Board of Education meeting. Superintendent Dr. Patricia McGeehan said the state Department of Education seems to be leaning against approving a charter school for the old Mt. Carmel School site on East 22nd Street. This …

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Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith introduced the $130 million 2011 fiscal year budget on Monday, saying it will cause a 3.9 percent tax increase. “While we continue to work on the budget, as proposed, it contains a modest increase of 3.9 percent,” Smith said. While the total figures are not in for the full budget that …

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When Alvin Chodash founded his establishment in 1907, Bayonne was a whole different place. The Bergen Point section was the heart of the city, the place where the city’s mayors and other prominent families lived. Chodash, who was a tailor and furrier, clothed the most prominent people, and Chodash Cleaners rapidly became one of the …

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The City Council recently modified local regulations governing the temperature at which landlords must maintain their dwellings for tenants. City Attorney Charles D’Amico advised the council that the change was in line with state laws, in response to an article in a local daily newspaper saying it might not be. The ordinance fine tunes the …

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Dry Dock warehouse fire takes all night to put out Firefighters responded to the Bayonne Dry Dock on Dec. 18 on the report of a structural fire. While no one was hurt, the three-alarm blaze took nearly a whole day to put out. “The first arriving fire companies were confronted by heavy smoke and fire …

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At 9 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11, smoke began to billow out of the new Eighth Street station of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail just as a train pulled in. This was not a real fire, but a complicated, multiple disaster exercise designed to test the emergency response capabilities of numerous groups before the station …

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There are some memories of when you are a small child that remain with you for a lifetime, flashbacks to perhaps your earliest recollections. Like when JFK was assassinated. I was a little more than two years old, but I remember how our family mourned for days, glued to the television for any and all …

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For more than 20 years, Michael and Josephine Lipari have built a village in their Bayonne living room during Christmas season. Residents of a home on the west side of midtown Bayonne, the Lipari family’s project has become a large part of their holiday tradition. The family is continually placing snow under the dozens of …

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