Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Ryan DeMeno doesn’t score a lot of goals as a hockey player. He’s not even the best player on the team. And yet, his contributions to the Bayonne Hockey Association and life itself may be beyond anybody’s ability to measure. Ryan, who is suffering autism, defied odds and dismal expectations to become not only a …
Continue reading “Making his markHockey league honors local hero”
Bayonne political history was made just after noontime on April 6 when Anthony Chiappone formally announced his intention of stepping down as city councilman, opting to keep his seat as state assemblyman instead. But fewer than two dozen people appeared at the last-minute press conference. Several Chiappone supporters expressed bitterness or disappointment at Chiappone’s decision …
Continue reading “Chiappone quits councilPolitical deal garners HCDO support for Assembly bid”
For more than a year after movie star Tom Cruise walked through the door of Chez Marie Café on West 22nd Street in Bayonne, Marie Folger, the owner, received phone calls, visits, and even Christmas cards addressed to him. Cruise had come to Bayonne in mid-October of 2004 to look over the sets being constructed …
Continue reading “End of an eraCafé made famous by Tom Cruise closes”
Determined to keep taxes from rising this year, Mayor Mark Smith convened the Board of School Estimate on April 2, the first of two final meetings that will determine how much to cut from the proposed $122 million 2009-2010 school budget. Although the night was primarily designed to allow the public to express their concerns …
After several years of disagreements that put work on hold at the tennis courts at Stephen R. Gregg County Park, reconstruction began last week as the county invests $720,000 into making the upgrades. Set to begin work more than two years ago, the county dropped Bayonne from the original parks upgrade list until disputes over …
Continue reading “Starting at lastNew deal for Bayonne tennis courts”
Saying the city faces some sobering economic times, Mayor Mark Smith gave his State of the City address both at the packed monthly Chamber of Commerce breakfast in March and later in the evening at a live TV broadcast. _____________ “Our great city – the city that we all love – is in peril and …
Continue reading “Down but not outMayor Smith says city will cope”
Margaret Mary Thornton is looking for a half brother and sister she has never seen. This is part of a search to bring together seven children of one-time Bayonne resident Leroy Christ. The last child born to Christ in 1962, Thornton came along after the children of her father’s previous marriage had gone to foster …
It had been 15 long years since Alex Stencel had visited his hometown of Bayonne. However, Stencel came back to his old stomping grounds last week to receive his induction into the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame, returning from where he now makes his home in California. “Honestly, when I watch ‘The Sopranos’ on …
Daring smoke and heat, firefighters from two Bayonne fire units rescued an unconscious 77-year-old man from a Prospect Avenue fire after a civilian told the firefighters someone might be trapped in the building. Eight fire vehicles and 30 firefighters responded to the two alarm blaze at 260 Prospect Ave. on March 25 at 10:42 a.m. …
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Facing possible extreme cuts next week, the Board of Education amended its 2009-2010 budget to reflect changes imposed by the county superintendent of schools. Working to meet tight deadlines because the state had been late in announcing aid to the school district, school trustees passed a $122 million budget that may face heavy cuts when …
Continue reading “Future cuts for certainBoard passes $122M school budget”