Category: Hoboken News

In a ceremony scheduled to take place on Saturday, July 23, in New Hope, Pa., Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop planned to marry Jaclyn Thompson, a local business owner. In some ways, theirs will be a storybook marriage, symbolic of the new, young and up-and-coming nature of Jersey City. Fulop, 38, proposed earlier this year, …

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Are you a father? Do you have a father? Have you ever heard of “children?” Then grab a dad and go see “Long Gone Daddy,” the insightful, honest, raw, and rock ‘n roll funny celebration of one man’s stumble into fatherhood. Playing now through Aug. 7 at Hoboken’s Mile Square Theatre, this engaging and touching …

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New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority has begun this month offering pontoon boat and canoe tours of the Hackensack River, some embarking from Secaucus, that will run through Saturday, Sept. 17. The boat rides are two hours long and the canoe rides are three hours, and both allow views of the Manhattan skyline through the …

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Park Avenue Bridge construction will halt during day, but bridge will close at night When the controversial construction on Park Avenue Bridge – which had caused traffic tie-ups during rush hour – resumes at some point in the future, it will only take place at night, according to Tweets posted by Hudson County’s official Twitter …

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One of Hoboken’s most popular and most traditional events is back again, running from Friday, July 22 through Tuesday, July 26. The 106-year-old St. Ann’s Italian Festival, known colloquially as “The Feast of St. Ann,” will include the traditional statue procession and Novena, but will have some modern touches — including battery-operated candles used as …

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Roughly 100 residents came to a public meeting on Tuesday to talk about three possible anti-flooding proposals for Hoboken that would include building controversial walls to keep the water out. An engineer’s presentation showed that the least popular flood wall to be built near the Hudson River would be the most effective of three proposed …

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Mayor responds to guilty plea by ‘Bridgegate’ official David Samson, a close confidante of Gov. Christopher Christie and the former chairman of the Port Authority who was forced to resign in the midst of the Bridgegate scandal, pleaded guilty Thursday to felony charges that he used his PA position to benefit himself. On Thursday evening …

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Last month, the state released the average SAT scores for each high school in the state for the 2014-2015 school year, allowing residents to compare how their district did on the standardized test, which many colleges use in evaluating applicants. Not surprisingly, within Hudson County, Jersey City’s McNair Academic High School – a public magnet …

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After the Hoboken City Council debated parking regulations at their meeting on Wednesday night, they voted 7-2 to award a $1.5 million contract to a company to place 156 new parking meters at corners anywhere in town where visitor or business permit parking is currently allowed. The metered parking will apply to people who have …

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