The exchange, it is a changinโ€™
Turnpike officials detail work to upgrade Bayonne Turnpike exit

Bayonne residents attending the Oct. 15 City Council meeting received a preview of how their lives will be affected for the next four years as work takes place on the Interchange 14A Improvement Project. Lisa Navarro, a senior project engineer for the New Jersey Turnpike Authority, and Michael Morgan, vice president and business unit manager …

Turnpike officials detail work to upgrade Bayonne Turnpike exit

Seeking suggestions
Cityโ€™s Catholic churches seek parishionersโ€™ input on consolidations

The city’s Roman Catholic churches will soon undergo a major transition in order to better serve their followers, utilize facilities, and manage debt, Rev. Peter Wehrle said late last week during an interview with the Bayonne Community News. The news from Rev. Wehrle, the St. Andrew the Apostle parish administrator, followed talks regarding the finances …

Cityโ€™s Catholic churches seek parishionersโ€™ input on consolidations

Development still a lightning rod
City trying to move projects ahead on Broadway, at former base

Development in the city is still a hot topic, whether it be a proclamation by the mayor that it’s the key to the city’s future at a morning meeting of business owners or a topic of debate at the same night’s City Council meeting. On Wednesday, Oct. 15 at the Bayonne Chamber of Commerce’s “Meet …

City trying to move projects ahead on Broadway, at former base

BAYONNE BRIEFS

Farmers’ market extends season four more weeks The Bayonne Farmers’ Market, located on Del Monte Drive between 23rd and 24th streets each Tuesday from 2 to 7 p.m., has extended its season, which was due to end later this month. The market will now be open until Nov. 25, but only until 6 p.m. after …

Cast your ballot
Voters to elect senator, congressman, surrogate, and freeholder

When Bayonne voters go the polls on Nov. 4, they will be electing candidates to positions as United States Senator, U.S. Representative, County Surrogate, and County Freeholder. In the marquee event, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat, seeks to fend off a challenge to his seat by Jeff Bell, the Republican candidate. Booker wants to …

Voters to elect senator, congressman, surrogate, and freeholder

On the road to sainthood
Hudson County shoemakerโ€™s daughter is one step closer to beatitude

When Sister Teresa Demjanovich taught English and Latin at Saint Aloysius School in Jersey City in the mid 1920s, she had just decided to give up her life in service to God. A Bayonne native, Sister Teresa struggled to decide whether or not to enter the Sisters of Charity, an order of nunnery devoted to …

Hudson County shoemakerโ€™s daughter is one step closer to beatitude

Hometown โ€˜celebritiesโ€™
City residents have names of boxer, NFL coach, comedian, and singer

What’s in a name? Well for Bayonne residents it can be a little bit of recognition and a whole lot of fun. For Bill Murray, a fan of the former Saturday Night Live comedian and actor, it’s been cool to have the same name of an entertainer he truly likes. Though he thinks he looks …

City residents have names of boxer, NFL coach, comedian, and singer

Abortion an issue in freeholder campaign?
Candidate Kopacz says no

If he had his way, Independent candidate Michael Alonso would like the federal issue of abortion rights to play a part in the very local race for Bayonne county freeholder. He first proposed the notion in a Bayonne Community News letter to the editor. Other letter writers who do not support a womanโ€™s right to …

Candidate Kopacz says no

County high school may change locations
Project may eventually replace dinosaur park

With additional money being generated through the state, a plan to move the North Bergen campus of the Hudson County Schools of Technology – a public high school accepting bright students from all Hudson County towns – to Secaucus seems to be on the agenda again after being set aside in 2011. The move would …

Project may eventually replace dinosaur park