Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Four-year-old boy bit in face by pit bull A four-year-old boy was bitten when he attempted to break up a dispute between two pit bulls on Aug. 12, according to a police spokesperson. A resident of West 19th Street, the boy attempted to stop two pet pit bulls while his mother was putting an infant …
The league is open to boys and girls from ages six to 13. All participants must be Bayonne residents. Children must be six by September 1, 2013, and cannot be 14 before November 1, 2013. The nonrefundable fee is $5 per player. The fees will go toward the cost of running the program. All who …
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Igor Martinez, a resident of Bayonne for about five years, always dreamed of having his own recording studio. A professional sound engineer, who honed his skills back in his native Chile, Martinez has worked in a number of studios and corporate entities after coming to the Unites States in 2002. But he had his eye …
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Crime, like rust, never sleeps. This is a lesson that Bayonne Police Chief Ralph Scianni conveyed at this year’s Night Out Against Crime, on Aug. 6. Hundreds of kids and their parents enjoyed rides and snacks, while officers from the Bayonne Community Policing Program, the Bayonne Police Explorers Club, and the Hudson County Sheriff’s Department …
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Drivers distracted while using cell phones is a common cause of fatalities on the road, and the death on July 30 of eight-month-old Angelie Paredes of North Bergen has become a symbol of the inability of local officials to curb numerous legal violations by jitney buses throughout Hudson County. Angelie died after a driver—allegedly talking …
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Even though 16 months have passed since Jack Santopietro died after being struck by a mini-van, his mother Margaret Abrams still can’t go to the site at Avenue E and East 10th Street. “It’s just too painful,” she said. “I see the accident happening and I can’t deal with it emotionally.” On March 16, 2012, …
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Bayonne contractor pleads guilty in fraud scheme Leo Viguie, 38, of Bayonne, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Peter G. Sheridan in Trenton federal court to one count of theft of government funds totaling $40,000 for allegedly bid-rigging in order to fraudulently obtain U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) grant funds from the …
Sister Virginia, a longtime teacher at Holy Family Academy, was two years old when the school opened in Bayonne at its first location on West 4th Street, so it is with a bit of irony that she should celebrate her 90th birthday during the last gathering before the school closed forever. Although graduation seemed to …
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Felix Lopez spun hot dance records at poolside as if he’d been doing it all his life. Well, not quite all his life, a mere 20 years, he said. On this hot afternoon in early August, his music inspired some of the early arrivals to this after-closing pool party for members of Ability Day Camp. …
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Less than a month after Gov. Christopher Christie gave his blessing to the raising of the Bayonne Bridge roadway, environmental groups filed suit to delay the project start, saying not enough has been done to assure that there will be no negative impact on air quality and other issues in neighboring cities like Newark. The …
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