Category: Hoboken News

Arts & Music Fest today (Sunday, May 2) The city is providing a free shuttle bus for the Arts & Music Festival today (Sunday, May 2), especially for senior-housing tenants and Housing Authority residents. The festival runs from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. and shuttle service will run continuously during those times, with a one-hour …

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Peter Cammarano, Hoboken’s former mayor and councilman, stood before a judge Tuesday and admitted to trading the power of the office he was seeking for campaign cash. Cammarano, 32, is facing jail time after pleading guilty to accepting $25,000 in “illicit cash campaign contributions” at the U.S. District Court in Newark. After serving only three …

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If the Board of Education election was a referendum on the “Kids First” board majority and their backer Mayor Dawn Zimmer, the voters apparently approve of the job both are doing. “Kids First,” the group of moms/“reformers” that has been slowly gaining a majority on the board for nearly five years, retained two board members …

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On Sunday, May 2, Washington Street will be bustling with more than 300 merchants, musicians, arts-and-crafts vendors, and purveyors of every kind of fair food one can imagine. Just as exciting, rockers of repute Fountains of Wayne, known for their hit 2003 song “Stacy’s Mom,” will headline a jam-packed musical lineup that also includes well-known …

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Hoboken’s new business administrator, Arch Liston, looks like the sort of man who could stare the municipal budget into submission. But he’ll need to do more than stare. Liston was confirmed as City Hall’s top administrator by the council last week, after spending his career in much smaller communities. Liston moved up the ranks of …

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With a little bit of luck and about $17 million plus of digging and building, residents in the southwest section of Hoboken won’t find their cars buried in water in the near future. The North Hudson Sewerage Authority broke ground on a new Wet Weather Pump Station and Screening Facility on Observer Highway off Washington …

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Who pushed whom? Counter charge in alleged assault on blogger Hoboken political activist Lane Bajardi, a vocal opponents of Mayor Dawn Zimmer, has filed a counter complaint against a blogger who had accused him the week before of allegedly snatching his camera at a school board election forum on April 12. Bajardi had been arrested …

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July 1, 2010. That’s the new date for the opening of Pier C Park, the long-awaited island playground and park at Third Street and Sinatra Drive, according to city Environmental Services Director Jennifer Wenson-Maier. But two sources close to the project think the summer may pass before the gates are open. The fancy 2-acre park …

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