Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Saying that he is leaving the city at a good time, John Fussa, who has been city planner since 2002, will move on to a new job as the director of community development in a community outside Denver. “I’ve given the city notice that I will be leaving as of Aug. 5,” he said. Fussa …
Continue reading “Irreplaceable?
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Correctional Facility accredited Early in July, The Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders recognized CFG Health Systems and the Hudson County Department of Corrections Adult Facility for receiving accreditation from the National Commission of Correctional Health Care. The National Commission of Correctional Health Care maintains rigorous Accreditation and Certification Programs for institutions and individual professionals …
With two cats and a dog at home, Larry Maglio, service supervisor for the Jersey City office of PSE&G, is only half joking when he says he couldn’t go home if anything had happened to the pets at Colonial House of Pets in Bayonne after the rooftop condenser went out on July10, and the temperature …
Continue reading “In the nick of time
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David Rivera, owner of Bella Sorrellas in Bayonne, has been in the food business so long he can remember when he couldn’t look over the edge of the table. His parents owned and operated at least three quality eateries in downtown Jersey City before downtown became trendy. “That was from the 1960s to the 1990s,” …
Continue reading “All in the family
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Saying they will likely refuse to pay the $2.4 million costs associated with the special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of Frank Lautenberg, the Hudson County Board of Freeholders said at its July 11 meeting that they may force the state to take the county to court. The …
Continue reading “Hudson County to state: `sue us’
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Dominic Crisonino, a tenth grader at Bayonne High School, said he isn’t trying to act like Woody Allen in his upcoming performance as Walter Hollander in Woody Allen’s political comedy “Don’t Drink the Water.” Instead, Crisonino said he is using Jackie Gleason as a model. Gleason played the part in the movie version of the …
Continue reading “A political farce
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Located at the corner of 14th Street and Broadway, the former gas station and auto-repair shop closed years ago. While sealed behind a fence as the result of a city mandate to shield from public view abandoned lots and other unsightly locales, city officials have been concerned about the property—partly because it is only a …
Continue reading “New use for old property
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Nearly everybody who knows Kathleen Henderson knows that she is a cat person. So when Henderson and Phyllis Melito, founders of the Bayonne Feral Cat Foundation (BFCF), take in a dog, you know there has to be a good reason. “Hennessy, a senior dog, was displaced from her home a few weeks ago because her …
Continue reading “With a little help from her friends
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Council to hold public hearing on dissolving BLRA The Bayonne City Council will hold a public hearing on dissolving the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority on July 17 ending a decade-long dream for the redevelopment of the former Military Ocean Terminal for upscale residential and commercial development. The council is also expected to vote on bonds …
When the row house at 43 West 33rd Street was first constructed in 1912, Bayonne was in the midst of change. Resnick’s Hardware Store had just opened its doors at its new location on Avenue E near 19th Street and Matthew T. Cronin had just taken office as mayor. Edmond Isbills, a prolific local builder …
Continue reading “Preserving a piece of history
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