Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Organized baseball started in Hoboken, and Hoboken’s Maria Pepe was the center of a national battle in 1972 to let girls play in Little League, so obviously baseball is big here – just like Frank Sinatra and zeppoles. Through local leagues such as Little League and RBI, hundreds of kids recently came out swinging to …
Rain or shine, the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival is on Regardless of the forecast, this year’s 22nd annual Hoboken Arts and Music Festival will take over Washington Street from First to Seventh streets on Sunday, May 1 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., featuring over 300 artists, crafters, photographers, local vendors and businesses. Music …
Rummaging through the aisles at the Trader Joe’s in Edgewater, Weehawken resident George McDaniel was stocking up on organic apple blossoms and all-natural potato chips. His weekly six-mile trip will soon be unnecessary. The Hoboken City Council approved an agreement on Tuesday, April 26, the final step for the renowned chain store to open in …
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Hoboken University Medical Center may stop accepting Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield as in-network insurance as of June 1, and the same for Bayonne Medical Center as of May 1, unless the two sides can negotiate for agreeable reimbursement rates in a hurry. That means that people with that insurance can still use the hospitals, …
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The air at Stevens Institute of Technology’s campus on Wednesday, April 27 was filled with innovation as the school’s annual expo drew crowds from near and far. “This is an exposition for engineering design teams that are multi-disciplinary and for the solutions that they come up with try to answer a societal need,” said Dr. …
Continue reading “Robotic fish, ‘heart driver’, self-sustaining garden…
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A new fitness experience is making its way to Hudson County as 8 Springs Studio prepares to open its doors at the Cast Iron Collection, the new industrial-inspired mixed-use community rising on the border of Hoboken and Jersey City. Scheduled to debut in early May, the one-of-a-kind health club will be home to Jersey City’s …
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Stevens Institute of Technology is expanding. Just five months after receiving approval for a two-building Academic Gateway Complex on Hudson Street, the school got the thumbs-up from the Hoboken Zoning Board of Adjustment on Tuesday, April 26 to finish their Babbio parking garage, which overlooks the Hudson River. The project is already partially completed and …
Continue reading “Zoning Board OK’s Stevens 436-space parking deck
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Rain or shine, the Hoboken Arts and Music Festival is on Regardless of the forecast, this year’s 22nd annual Hoboken Arts and Music Festival will take over Washington Street from First to Seventh streets on Sunday, May 1 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., featuring over 300 artists, crafters, photographers, local vendors and businesses. Music …
Both boys and girls can play Little League today. But it was not that way in 1972 when Hoboken native Maria Pepe took the mound and pitched in three games for the Hoboken Young Democrats Club Little League team. After those games, she was told by the national organization that she could no longer play …
Continue reading “Paving the way for girls to play Little League
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She arrived late to the party, and most of the people there were already drunk. This past Tuesday, April 19, Dr Meika Roberson, the chief medical officer for CarePoint Health at Hoboken University Medical Center, told a crowd about an experience she had during her freshman year in college. Over a hundred people stood silent …
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