Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
HOBOKEN—In a legal motion filed last week, the Hoboken Board of Education has sought to temporarily block the addition of a seventh grade class at a local charter school while its larger lawsuit challenging the expansion is heard in appellate court. If the motion to stay succeeds, the 21 HoLa sixth graders slated to continue …
Hoboken already has a plaque on 11th Street commemorating the location of the first baseball game to be played under the rules that form the basis of the modern sport. Now a group of primarily Canadian and American baseball enthusiasts want to make the city the permanent home of the World Baseball Hall of Fame …
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Call it the Northern Renaissance. After years in the shadow of prominent projects on the waterfront and in the town’s southern interior, northeast Hoboken and southern Weehawken are seeing a flurry of mixed-use development that promises to solidify the Fourteenth Street corridor as a hub of its own. 364 high-end residential units are set to …
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Walk by on the nearest surface road and you’re likely to miss it. Drive over one of the looming viaducts, and you may see a yellow blur before Weehawken beckons. Whiz by on the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail, and it will present itself if you are keen-eyed, but only as a strange artifact, behind a fence …
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Drug talk at the drugstore leads to drug bust Three Hoboken residents were charged with possession of controlled dangerous substances with intent to distribute after allegedly being overheard talking about drug dealing while inside a CVS drugstore, according to a report provided by the Hoboken Police Department. At around 9:20 p.m. on Friday, April 24, …
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. Hundreds of kids recently came out swinging to start the new season. Check out our photo of Little League festivities and games, and look …
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Early lead gives FIRE DEPT victory over ELKS, 12-2 On Saturday April 11, FIRE DEPT jumped out to an early lead on ELKS and captured a 12-2 victory on Saturday at HOBOKEN. With 10 runs in the first three innings, Fire Dept. left no doubt about the eventual outcome. An RBI single by Angel Sanabria …
Continue reading “Recap of Hoboken Little League action
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State-of-the-art facilities and cutting-edge programs are becoming increasingly important to today’s undergraduate and graduate students. Saint Peter’s has responded to this demand with updates to the physical campus and academic programs. The School of Business and the School of Education recently underwent a nearly $4 million transformation to create an ultramodern learning environment. The centerpiece …
Zimmer stands by claims against Christie administration after federal indictments hit Bridgegate officials After U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman on Friday handed down indictments for two officials involved in the Bridgegate scandal, but none in relation to Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s claims that Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno linked Hoboken’s Sandy relief aid to support for a …
Continuing a decade-long trend, major crime remained nearly flat in Hoboken and fell in many categories last year, according to data provided by the Hoboken Police Department to state police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. From 2013 to 2014, the total number of index crimes reported in Hoboken – rape, murder, aggravated assault, burglary, …
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