Category: Bayonne News

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 …

Continue reading “The exchange, it is a changin’

“

Next year, who will respond to treat victims of the car accident involving your friend or the fire at your neighbor’s house? Those questions are up in the air until later this year as the city mulls proposals on a new ambulance service contract. The City Council passed a resolution on Wednesday, Oct. 15, that …

Continue reading “Who will respond?

“

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 …

Continue reading “Seeking suggestions

“

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 …

Continue reading “Development still a lightning rod

“

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 …

Continue reading “BAYONNE BRIEFS”

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 …

Continue reading “On the road to sainthood

“

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 …

Continue reading “Hometown ‘celebrities’

“

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 woman’s right to …

Continue reading “Abortion an issue in freeholder campaign?

“

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 …

Continue reading “County high school may change locations

“