Keeping the traditions alive
Veteransโ€™ posts seek younger vets

Bayonne has a long history of being one of the most patriotic cities in America. Men and, more recently, women from Bayonne have often been among the first to volunteer when the nation faces a military threat. Testifying to this is the fact that the city has 12 active veteransโ€™ posts. Yet, as patriotic as …

Veteransโ€™ posts seek younger vets

Mall is just a beginning
New redevelopment zone proposed for Route 440

Now that the Bayonne Crossing mall has broken ground on the east side of Route 440 between East 22nd Street and New Hook Road, the city is looking at a possible redevelopment of yet another portion of the Route 440 corridor, part of a very hefty agenda that includes additional redevelopment sites throughout the city. …

New redevelopment zone proposed for Route 440

From rebel to reporter
Al Sullivan wins Employee of the Month

Al Sullivanโ€™s journey through the 1960s brought him into contact with soldiers, beat poets, the Merry Pranksters, and even followers of Charles Manson, but eventually he went back to school and changed direction. Sullivan grew up in historic Paterson, N.J., the former silk town on the Great Falls. He still is fascinated by Silk City …

Al Sullivan wins Employee of the Month

Breaking ground
Corzine joins officials to start construction of Bayonne Crossing mall

Amid an army of TV cameras, news photographers, journalists, union members, and city, county and state officials, Gov. Jon Corzine helped put the first shovels in the dirt to officially begin the construction phase of the new โ€œbig-boxโ€ mall on Route 440. The Bayonne Crossing Mall, on the eastern side of Route 440 between East …

Corzine joins officials to start construction of Bayonne Crossing mall

A place of its own โ€“ for now
Council chambers will host historic mural

A mural created during the Great Depression and gifted to the Bayonne Library has finally found a place for display after spending years in storage. Created by Maurice Abramson, a local artist as well as a one-time prominent jeweler in Bayonne, the mural is a classic example of works done under the Works Progress Administration, …

Council chambers will host historic mural

Getting there from here
Former commuter starts car service after being downsized

Never has the old adage of โ€œnecessity is the mother of inventionโ€ been as true as when Terri Lalka found herself in the middle of Journal Square trying to get to Manhattan. She decided there had to be a better way to commute than the existing transit systems. So after her job was downsized due …

Former commuter starts car service after being downsized