Category: Hoboken News

With a school board election coming up this Tuesday, there was some drama over a drama teacher at last week’s Board of Education meeting. Also at the meeting, the board said goodbye to two of its members who are not running for reelection, and they said hello again to Interim Superintendent Peter Carter. Following a …

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“Once all these women got on the school board, I knew it was time to get out,” Jimmy Farina joked last week as he came to grips with closing a chapter in his life. Farina has spent more than half of his 62 years serving on the Hoboken Board of Education, an unpaid position of …

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After voicing conditional approval of a new waterfront parking garage for Stevens Institute of Technology on Wednesday, the City Council will create more requirements in the coming weeks that must be met for the school to go forward with construction. A vote is planned for the council’s meeting on May 5. The school actually began …

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Zimmer names top director Mayor Dawn Zimmer announced her choice for the top director in City Hall, the business administrator, on Friday. Her choice, Arch Liston, is currently the business administrator in Bridgeton, N.J. The City Council will consider his appointment at their meeting on Wednesday (which you can watch live at www.hudsonreporter.com). State-appointed fiscal …

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An attempt by two City Council members on Wednesday to cut down the length of public council meetings met with opposition from some fellow council members and aroused the ire of more than a dozen members of the public who didn’t like the possibility of having their comments curtailed. In an effort to end council …

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$80 for two ladies? Going once. Going twice. Sold. One night per year, Texas Arizona officially turns into an open market for local singles, and all for a good cause. The fifth Annual Bachelor and Bachelorette Auction was held on Wednesday, April 7 and organized by the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Hoboken. …

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As a testament to the cost and scarcity of property in Hoboken, two of Hoboken’s three charter schools are currently without a definite home for next year. Some charter school parents are worried about the future of the schools and whether they should make contingency plans for their children’s education for the 2010-2011 school year. …

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