Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Although the office of Mayor Mark Smith said it has limited ability to change top school officials, reports from others suggest there is a concerted effort to make changes in both the school district’s leadership as well as members of the Board of Education. The intense behind the scenes conflict appears to be brewing between …
Despite an ailing national economy that put one of its potential client’s stores out of business, Bayonne Crossing, a big box store slated for the location along Route 440, received approvals last week from the Bayonne City Council allowing it to expand a portion of its property. _____________ “What I can say is that Bayonne …
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For the crew of the Sturgeon Bay Coast Guard Cutter, the early December educational event was the culmination of a season of teaching local kids about the vessels routine activities. For the students and teachers from the Bayonne school district, it was an eye opening experience. _____________ “We teach them about how to get involved, …
“Hello? Yes, this is Congressman Sires’ office,” Conchita Smith says as she answers one of the many calls the Bayonne congressional office receives. Smith is the bilingual aide to Rep. Albio Sires, who has served in Bayonne as Sires’ aide in his congressional office in City Hall for the last two years. “We get a …
Children’s book author Jane Lovascio needs a little help writing her third book in a series based on her two dogs and she is holding an essay contest that will get assistance from area school children. A resident of Hoboken when her first book, “Casey and Bella Go to New York City,” was published, Lovascio …
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At a special meeting held on Jan. 22, the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority appointed Chris Patella to replace Joseph Nichols as the executive director. Patella, who currently serves as counsel to the City Council, will take up his new post as of Feb. 2 at a salary of $125,000 a year. Nichols, who served for …
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Years from now, local officials who made the trek to Washington, D.C., to witness the inauguration of President Barack Obama will likely forget the bitter cold. But for a few days after the event, local officials still felt numb, partly from the frigid temperatures that chilled them as they watched the ceremony, but mostly because …
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Terrence Malloy, chief financial officer for the City of Bayonne and executive director of the city’s Urban Enterprise Zone, remembers the exact date when the city’s UEZ status began – partly because the final approvals came on the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, but also because setting up the state program here in Bayonne …
Continue reading “The shape of things to comeCity changes UEZ map to reflect MOTBY development”
Maurice Fitzgibbons sits in the back of the Elysian Café in Hoboken as if he owns the place. He has come here so often for so long that everybody knows him, particularly the management, which greets him like a family member each time he comes in. Fitzgibbons often frequents establishments he considers the core of …
Continue reading “A freeholder legacyFour-termer Maurice Fitzgibbons looks back”
Saying a security project will piggyback on work already done by the Bayonne Police Department, members of the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority voted to move ahead with installing security cameras and lights throughout the former Military Ocean Terminal. Using a $1.1 million grant with $300,000 of its own money, the BLRA will install 18 movable …
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