Category: Hoboken News

Editor’s Note: For many years, residents of Hoboken have seen a short, curly-haired homeless woman named “Maria” walking the streets. Sometimes she would wear pajama bottoms, and sometimes she would hold an umbrella even in sunny weather. In the last few years, she has had gauzes on her legs. Maria was very quiet, but would …

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For the last two years, a 45-year-old woman from West Virginia posted letters all around the internet saying how wonderful it was to work for First Priority Pay in Hoboken, sometimes offering tributes to her young boss, CEO Jerry Carter. She wasn’t the only one praising Carter. New Jersey Business Magazine named him one of …

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Dos lenguas, una escuela. That’s the idea behind the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) set to open next September: “Two languages, one school.” As many as 132 children from kindergarten to second grade will begin their bilingual immersion next year, thanks to the determined efforts of founders Jennifer Hindman Sargent and Camille Korschun Bustillo. …

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At 3 p.m as school is letting out, most kids run out of the building as quickly as they can to get home. But on recent Tuesday and Friday afternoons, a group of young girls have been headed in the opposite direction, filling school cafeterias throughout Hoboken with crafts, laughter, and song during meetings for …

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30 residents apply for Zoning Board seats The City Council will make at least two Zoning Board appointments at their meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The two seats currently belong to Jim Perry and Jose Ponjuan and will be available Jan. 1, 2010, according to Zoning Board President Dominic Lisa. Another alternate seat currently belonging …

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At Wednesday night’s Hoboken City Council meeting, the council got its first look at the proposed 2009-2010 budget from state-appointed Financial Monitor Judy Tripodi. It will cost an estimated $98.7 million to run the city from this past July 1 through next June 30, 2010. The taxpayers will contribute $55.6 million to pay for it, …

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Have you ever thought to yourself, “Do we really need the whole bottle of wine? Couldn’t we just have a couple of glasses?” Local business owner Armando Luis struggled with these questions nine years ago and went searching for the answers. In 2006, he sold his first wine preservation system, Vinfinity, to a local bar. …

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NJ Transit said two weeks ago that it plans to place a 25-foot-high noise barrier on West 18th Street near the Hoboken/Weehawken border in order to shield residents from the emergency shaft for a train tunnel that is being built. The Access to the Region’s Core (ARC) project is an $8 billion rail tunnel extending …

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