Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: My letter (with added comments from our phone conversation) to Lina Podles, Library Director in response to Cammarano’s press conference: I find it interesting that he shared that email with you. It was not sent to the entire city but to the council members. If it’s the email I believe he shared (as …
Dear Editor: We would like to convey sincere appreciation to everyone who attended the wake and funeral services of Joseph Mannino Sr., (Joe Texaco). The solace of your kind words and generous deeds comforted us in this difficult time. We would also like to express our heartfelt gratitude to the Hoboken Police Dept., especially Capt. …
Dear Editor: Mr. Skalski recently wrote a letter referring to former Mayor Russo’s “loyalists” on the Planning and Zoning Boards. I was appointed by Mayor Russo to the Planning Board in 1998 but hardly consider myself a “loyalist”. Like others, I was bullied and insulted by the former mayor after supporting his opponent in the …
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Dear Editor: I attended the last BoE meeting and stayed well past midnight. I came with two questions and unfortunately left with those two questions unanswered. Why is the district creating what is virtually a new K-8 school? Why this particular concept to the exclusion of other ideas? I was given the impression at the …
Dear Editor: On Tuesday January 13th, there was a Hoboken Board of Education meeting. There were approximately 300 people in attendance due to the teachers’ contract and the HoLa program (Hola informed citizens that they would try to force a vote). Mr. Raslowsky opened the meeting with very inflammatory and insulting comments directed toward parents …
Dear Editor: Much new development in Hoboken was justified by the lie that increased ratables would stabilize taxes. We would get all kinds of wonderful benefits like a community pool, etc. There were sham public meetings about a community development plan. Developers got variances, rezoning and tax breaks worth multiple millions of dollars. Concerns about …
Dear Editor: On Dec. 10th the City of Hoboken lost a good friend and citizen. Shelley Miller moved to Hoboken in the late 80’s and instantly became an active participant in this community. She made friends easily and joined many groups sharing her many talents. She was an excellent cook and had wonderful dinner parties …
Dear Editor: For more than 3,500 years, cannabis has been the most widely used plant for medicine. Should it be decriminalized, it would replace 20 percent of all pharmaceutical drugs. It has been proven to be therapeutic for anorexia, tumors, epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, muscular spasms, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, depression, stress and migraine headaches. Some …
Dear Editor: The Family of Raymond Cerbie extends our gratitude toward all those who expressed their kindness and sympathy during our time of loss. We would like to give a special thank you to Hoboken University Hospital, especially the nurses and staff of the 7th Floor and the doctors and nurses of the Intensive Care …
Dear Editor, For many of our neighbors in Hoboken these are undoubtedly tumultuous times. The national economy is in turmoil, and our City has been hard hit by years of fiscal mismanagement by the current administration. The financial upheaval at the national and local levels has left many of our residents in deep distress. People …
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