Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
With sweltering heat in the Richard Korpi Ice Rink relieved only by the relentless efforts of huge fans, 592 Bayonne High School graduates made their way to the podium in their last act as graduates, accepting diplomas they had worked four years to earn. Thousands of well-wishers crowded the large room to cheer on the …
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Robert and Jason Tillis of Imperial Bag and Paper, a father-and-son team, don’t step on each other’s toes, even though they rely on each other as partners of the Bayonne-based company. Robert said he and his son have separate duties, and Jason after years of working at the company has left his own mark. Robert …
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Even after Harry’s Wine Cellar was forced to close due to a fire in an adjacent building last March, patrons and delivery people were still coming up to the door. In fact, some delivery people had to wheel their hand trucks past police and fire trucks, only to discover that the landmark store was closed. …
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The Hudson County Board of Freeholders adopted the $495 million 2013 county budget at its June 13 meeting after cutting more than $4 million from the budget proposed in early May. As approved, the budget is an increase of 3.19 percent from last year. The original budget called for a $12,787,530 increase in the overall …
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State Budget approved Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell said he was among the Democrats in the state Assembly who voted to approve the state’s 2014 fiscal year $33 billion budget this week. “We worked hard to get this together,” O’Donnell said, noting that the budget avoided some of the new initiatives and tax cuts proposed by Gov. …
With the threat of rain hanging over St. Henry’s Church on June 6, the 39 girls of Holy Family Academy gathered in the vestibule for the long walk down the center aisle where they would get their high-school diplomas. Many looked nervous, and while some looked glad or sad, even the happiest seemed to understand …
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When Dipali Sen, former reference-room librarian at Bayonne Library and Cultural Center, read about the death of the 250-year-old tortoise in India, something connected with her. This tortoise had seen the rise and eventual decline of British colonialism in India and for Sen, who had been looking for a vehicle to write a history of …
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Every year the Hudson County Department of Health and Human Services has to make a tough choice, seeking to pick one senior citizen from the 12 nominated by each municipality to be “Hudson County’s Outstanding Senior” of the year. While Helen Hams of Weehawken got the distinction this year as the May 29 luncheon at …
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“At this point, I’ve given up. I’ve given up any hope of getting help from the state through legal channels. I’ll just get what my wife needs illegally.” The Jersey City resident, who did not want to be identified, spoke these words from a waiting room last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where his …
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Bayonne native, civil rights activist, passes away Marcella West, who grew up in Bayonne and raised her family in Jersey City, passed away on May 29 in Newark at the age of 87,.NJ.com reported last week. She died of natural causes. The site noted, “At the height of the civil rights movement, Marcella West attended …