Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: According to statistics from the Center of Disease Control, this week, the number of gun deaths in the U.S. since the tragedy in Newtown rose to 49,559. That is the size of the population of Hoboken. Each day that we go without proper controls on weapon ownership and sales, the number of deaths …
Dear Editor: I am a 72 year old handicapped widow; I visited Hoboken to meet two young relatives to have lunch in lovely Hoboken and was going to pick up my first ever Cake Boss cake for my son’s birthday, which was quite a splurge! I was warned about Hoboken parking so was extremely aware …
Dear Editor: The Hoboken Public Library Foundation recently held its first fundraising event. “An Evening of Epicurean Delights” was a five-course wine dinner held at Amanda’s Restaurant on Washington Street in Hoboken on May 14th. The foundation would like to thank all of the members of our community who came out for this very special …
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Dear Editor: Last month 42 students from 20 Hudson County high schools were honored at the Twenty Seventh Annual Hudson County Academic Achievement Recognition Program held at Puccini’s Restaurant in Jersey City. The program, initiated in 1988, honors two graduates from each high school in the county who have achieved the highest cumulative academic average. …
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Dear Editor: I had a great laugh in Hoboken the other day when I saw posters for this month’s Hudson Theatre Ensemble stage adaptation of “The Little Engine That Could,” the classic children’s story of the little train that overachieves by repeating the mantra, “I think I can, I think I can.” Ironically, New Jersey …
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Dear Editor: I served only one term on the Hoboken Housing Authority but with cooperation and open dialogue the board and executive director made great strides. One of the first things I noticed was several findings in our audits, lack of a budget surplus, and several other financial metrics that were deficient. Working with the …
Dear Editor: I want to thank our Hoboken friends and neighbors. Our beloved cat of seven years, Boobie, went missing last weekend. Heartbroken and struggling to explain his disappearance to our two and a half year old daughter, we began a desperate search. We posted flyers in southwest Hoboken, reached out to friends and neighbors, …
Dear Editor: The Hoboken Board of Education is planning to vote to increase its litigation expenses to fight HoLa’s expansion to 8th grade to $50,000 from $20,000. Another week where rather than bring parents and board members together to brainstorm and create training, curriculum, and programs to help the teachers and students succeed, energy is …
Dear Editor: This has been an interesting month, May 2014. There was the Senior Prom at the Hoboken Catholic Academy. The list is too long to write all the names of the people who made it possible. Thank you to you all. It was quite a surprise! The corsages were beautiful, and the tables and …
Dear Editor: I am delighted that EPA has finally moved to abate the disastrous impacts of climate change by regulating carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But, given the adverse reaction from the coal industry, the agency should have issued parallel regulations on emissions from meat industry operations. Each state could than determine its own …