Category: Hoboken News

The City Council navigated a minimal agenda at their meeting Wednesday night, just one month away from an election in which three of nine of the members are running for mayor. However, they did consider an amendment to a redevelopment plan for the city’s northwest area, and also voted on a measure to make more …

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Eleven of the 12 City Council candidates in the May 12 election participated in a question-and-answer forum sponsored by the Quality of Life Coalition and People for Open Government on Tuesday. On hand at Our Lady of Grace Church were mayoral candidate Beth Mason’s ticket of Anthony Pasquale, Raul Morales, and Vinnie Addeo; mayoral candidate …

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Dates with local bachelors and bachelorettes were auctioned off last week at the American Cancer Society’s Relay For Life fundraiser. The event was Wednesday night at Texas Arizona, across from the PATH station, and the bar was filled with more than 200 people almost immediately after the meet-and-greet began at 7 p.m. The annual event …

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Board of Education election on Tuesday Hoboken voters can select any three people to serve three-year terms on the Board of Education Tuesday, as well as voting on the district’s $59.36 million budget. The candidates are divided into two slates headed up by incumbents Theresa Minutillo and Frank Raia respectively. On Minutillo’s slate are Ruth …

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The Hoboken Housing Authority Board of Commissioners voted Thursday to begin a search for a new executive director, after years of rumors that they would like to move the agency’s politically connected deputy director to the top spot. The HHA – which oversees Hoboken’s 1,353 units of subsidized public housing on the west side of …

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In an attempt to change public perception about the recent Hoboken property tax hike, Mayor David Roberts said last week that the increase wasn’t the widely reported 47 percent, but approximately half of that. He said that the tax increase was really 23 percent for fiscal year 2007-2008 and 21 percent for fiscal year 2008-2009. …

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If Scott Delea gets his way, people all across the nation will be partying, but it will be for the benefit of charities. The organization he founded in Hoboken six years ago, Party With Purpose, hosts events that draw in young people who might not otherwise participate in charitable donations. The group focuses on local …

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