BAYONNE BRIEFS

Menendez, Lautenberg Announce More than $360 Million for Super Storm Sandy Transit Recovery U.S. Senators Robert Menendez and Frank R. Lautenberg announced in March that more than $360 million in federal funding from the Disaster Relief Act will be coming to the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and the NJ Transit Corporation …

Narrow streets a concern
Trembley Court fire highlights problem for some streets

When the fire broke out in a house at the far end of Trembley Court on March 20, officials immediately sent everything they could into the area. This was not because the Bayonne Fire Department lacked the equipment to battle the three story blaze, but because the street was too narrow for needed equipment to …

Trembley Court fire highlights problem for some streets

Narrow streets a concern
Trembley Court fire highlights problem for some streets

When the fire broke out in a house at the far end of Trembley Court on March 20, officials immediately sent everything they could into the area. This was not because the Bayonne Fire Department lacked the equipment to battle the three story blaze, but because the street was too narrow for needed equipment to …

Trembley Court fire highlights problem for some streets

Teachers protest at budget hearing
Contract dispute spills over in Board of School Estimate caucus

More than 200 people answered the call to come to the March 19 meeting of the Board of School Estimate to make their case for a teachersโ€™ contract. After months of banging their heads against what seemed like an uncompromising wall of the Board of Education, teachers tried to make their case to Board of …

Contract dispute spills over in Board of School Estimate caucus

Teachers protest at budget hearing
Contract dispute spills over in Board of School Estimate caucus

More than 200 people answered the call to come to the March 19 meeting of the Board of School Estimate to make their case for a teachersโ€™ contract. After months of banging their heads against what seemed like an uncompromising wall of the Board of Education, teachers tried to make their case to Board of …

Contract dispute spills over in Board of School Estimate caucus

A clear path?
Bayonne moves to escape Agent Orange litigation

Bayonne City Council took the first step towards a possible resolution of a suit that has unwittingly ensnared Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority over the cost associated with the dumping of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange in local waterways. The City Council voted on a resolution at its March 20 meeting that would could allow the …

Bayonne moves to escape Agent Orange litigation

A clear path?
Bayonne moves to escape Agent Orange litigation

Bayonne City Council took the first step towards a possible resolution of a suit that has unwittingly ensnared Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority over the cost associated with the dumping of the chemical defoliant Agent Orange in local waterways. The City Council voted on a resolution at its March 20 meeting that would could allow the …

Bayonne moves to escape Agent Orange litigation