Category: Hoboken News

Last month, over 37 students from Weehawken High School embarked on the trip of a lifetime by visiting places that many adults live their whole lives without seeing. Every other year, the high school helps sponsor a trip for the students to different countries in Europe. This year, the destinations were Italy and Greece. _____________ …

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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the shore? Riding a camel in the …

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Memorial Day Parade scheduled for Wednesday night On Wednesday, May 25, at 6:30 p.m., Hoboken will hold its annual Memorial Day Parade, honoring veterans. The parade will start at City Hall and will head up Washington Street, ending at the Elks Club. Former State Sen. Bernard Kenny, who is also a Navy veteran, will be …

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Mayor Dawn Zimmer has regained her 5-4 majority on the Hoboken City Council thanks to the election this past Tuesday, so there may be an ouster on the way for the current council president and some other changes. In Tuesday’s council election, Zimmer’s team won two of the six ward seats up for grabs, giving …

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History was made in Hoboken last week as two of the first female fire captains in Hudson County were sworn in. In addition, the city released a restructuring plan after an audit of the department was completed by a private company. Hoboken Fire Department members Audra A. Carter and Maria D. Diaz were promoted along …

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After the city’s Rent Control Ordinance was amended in March, 2,300 residents signed a petition hoping the City Council would either repeal the three changes to the 1973 law or place the issue on last week’s municipal election ballot for the voters to decide. Neither happened, and the signature-gathering may have proven to be a …

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Drama surrounding theater director rises in Hoboken More drama surrounded Hoboken Theater Director Paula Ohaus at the Tuesday, May 10 school board meeting. The Board of Education voted yes on legislation to extend the deadline for notifying non-tenured teachers that they will not be hired back. The current date was extended to May 15. Parents …

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The city is on the verge of selling Hoboken University Medical Center (HUMC) to a group that has common ownership with Bayonne Medical Center. The Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority voted unanimously on Wednesday evening to execute an asset purchase agreement with HUMC Holdco, the group from Bayonne, ending more than four months of exclusive negotiations. …

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