POLICE BEAT

Neighbor says noise from alleged marijuana owner woke his cats Police were phoned last Saturday, July 17 by a Garden Street man who called to complain that he had been dealing with frequent noise from the apartment above him, and that it was so bad that night that it woke up both of his cats. …

Whatโ€™s changed since corruption busts a year ago?
18 have pleaded guilty, Feb. trial date set for Elwell

A trial date was set for former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and one of his political associates last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the massive New Jersey corruption scandal that rocked the Garden State last July and led to the arrests of 46 public officials and religious leaders. In addition, another former …

18 have pleaded guilty, Feb. trial date set for Elwell

HOBOKEN BRIEFS

Anti-Semitic bias crime reported An act of graffiti that police are labeling a bias crime occurred on Bloomfield Street in Hoboken some time before Wednesday morning, according to a police report. According to the report, filed Wednesday, an unknown person spray-painted the word โ€œJEWโ€ with an arrow pointing toward a second-floor window of a four-story …

Several principals leaving Hoboken schools
Changes in state benefits may be behind mass exodus

With 35 retirements or resignations expected by the end of August, the Hoboken School District will see an unusually high number of staff changes when classes start again in September. On Thursday, Interim Schools Superintendent Peter Carter confirmed that Wallace Primary School Principal Charles Tortorella will retire effective Aug. 31. The news came on the …

Changes in state benefits may be behind mass exodus

How to improve Church Square Park
Activists, โ€˜Project Playโ€™ parents, and 5-year-old girl share ideas at City Hall

Olivia Moran, 5, of Hoboken has a complaint about Church Square Park in the center of town. She quietly gave her opinion to 6th Ward Councilman Nino Giacchi at a public hearing on park improvements Thursday night in City Hall, and Giacchi vocalized it more loudly for the public. โ€œOlivia doesnโ€™t like the concrete under …

Activists, โ€˜Project Playโ€™ parents, and 5-year-old girl share ideas at City Hall

Whatโ€™s different in this yearโ€™s โ€˜Feastโ€™
Popular St. Annโ€™s Festival turns 100 years old, starts Wednesday

One of the largest Italian-American festivals in New Jersey โ€“ the Feast of St. Ann โ€“ turns 100 this summer and will include some new additions when it kicks off for six days this week. Thousands of visitors will alight on western Hoboken for live music, 80 street vendors, religious celebrations, and of course, the …

Popular St. Annโ€™s Festival turns 100 years old, starts Wednesday

โ€˜Sycophants and campaign contributorsโ€™
Council members argue over board appointments, closing street for city garage

Wednesday night saw yet another contentious and well-attended Hoboken City Council meeting, with officials and members of the public arguing over salaries, mayoral board appointments, and especially over a new plan to deal with the cityโ€™s fast approaching loss of its municipal garage property on Observer Highway. The city must find a new location for …

Council members argue over board appointments, closing street for city garage

Much ado about Shakespeare
Hudson theater group has shows through rest of summer

William Shakespeare, historyโ€™s preeminent playwright, has gotten the Hudson County treatment every year for the past 19 years. The Hudson Shakespeare Company, with a home base at St. Maryโ€™s High School on Second Street in Jersey City, annually performs productions of Shakespeareโ€™s plays outdoors during the summer, and offers several productions (Shakespearean and other titles) …

Hudson theater group has shows through rest of summer

HOBOKEN BRIEFS

City to hold public workshops on redesigning certain neighborhoods The city received last year $240,000 in federal funding for improving safety along Newark Street between River Street and Washington Street as well as $2 million in federal funding to improve Observer Highway. Due to the time-sensitive nature of the funds, community input is being sought …

The โ€˜Cake Bossโ€™ effect
Has popular Hoboken reality show boosted business, tourism?

Hundreds of fans with photos and video cameras โ€“ not to mention security guards and police barricades โ€“ are not what youโ€™d expect to see outside your neighborhood bakery. But Hoboken residents have witnessed all of the above, much to the joy of some and the chagrin of others, since Carloโ€™s Bakery on Washington Street …

Has popular Hoboken reality show boosted business, tourism?