Category: Bayonne News

With Memorial Day, Flag Day, and Fleet Week all in spring, the season can be a fitting time of year for grade school children to learn about the sacrifices made by military men and women to keep our country free. This was the case for 42 Weehawken sixth graders when they visited the Joyce-Herbert VFW …

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Remainder of IMTT sold to parent company The remaining 50 percent of International-Matex Tank Terminals (IMTT) not owned by Macquarie Infrastructure Co. (MIC), a U.S. owner of storage facilities for oil products and chemicals, is being bought by MIC for $1.03 billion in cash and stock, according to an online report. Bloomberg News reported the …

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Promoting themes of unification and progress, Mayor James Davis began his four-year term as leader of the city during a noon ceremony at Bayonne High School on Tuesday, July 1. Calling it a historic day for the city, Davis said Bayonne was poised like never before to usher in an era of change. “My message …

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City residents, teachers, and union representative Alan D’Angelo used the June 26 Board of Education meeting to implore the board to settle the four year-plus impasse over a new teachers’ contract. About 250 people attended the last regular meeting of the board under the administration of Mayor Mark Smith in Bayonne High School’s Alexander X. …

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Gathered in the hallways of Bayonne High School on the evening of June 24, it was a mix of competing feelings for most of the graduating students: happiness, exuberance, and excitement, but also tinges of anxiety and sadness. Most had spent the last four years navigating these hallways, gaining knowledge and life experience. But here …

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For the more than 150 students of High Tech High School’s graduating class on June 27, their day could be described in one word: transitions. While many of them were sad to be leaving their classmates, their school, and what is most comfortable to them, they know it’s time to conquer bigger worlds. High Tech …

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The FIFA World Cup is back for the thirty-second time this year, and with it the quadrennial debate over when soccer will finally break through in the United States. Americans, the traditional line goes, are too saturated by football, basketball, baseball, and hockey to pay attention to soccer. But in an area as ethnically diverse …

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Bayonne man arrested for DWI Robert O’Neill, 42, of West 9th Street in Bayonne was arrested on June 21 and charged with driving while intoxicated within 1,000 feet of a school (Bailey), reckless driving, failure to observe a signal (red light), and consumption of alcoholic beverage in a motor vehicle, according to the Bayonne Police …

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Mayor-elect James Davis and his City Council will be sworn in on Tuesday, July 1 in a public ceremony featuring county, state, and federal officials, his transition team announced Tuesday, June 24. Former Bayonne councilwoman Mary Jane Desmond has been tasked with the planning and organization of the event. The day will begin with a …

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Earlier this year, NJ Transit reduced the time that Hudson-Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) tickets are valid from 90 to 60 minutes – but public officials and riders say they weren’t made aware of this change, and that other features of ridership are unclear. The change was made, according to NJ Transit, to stop people from …

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