Category: Hoboken News

Peter Wolf has seen and done more than most in his day. As the lead singer of J. Geils Band, he scored genre-defining rock hits like “Love Stinks” and “Centerfold.” He has married (and divorced) Faye Dunaway, sang duets with Aretha Franklin and Mick Jagger, and written for Rolling Stone magazine. After May 3, he …

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They aren’t as high profile as the Southwest Park or as complex as the Washington Street redesign, but the pedestrian improvements city contractors have developed for First Street’s busiest corridor promise to be just as visually striking, and potentially completed sooner than those other projects. On Wednesday, April 15, representatives from T&M Associates and their …

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After living up to the adage that writers should write what they know, former West New York resident and Secaucus native Amanda Palasciano has published and is promoting the first book in a series of planned novels dealing with teenage issues. The first novel, called “Mascara,” is about an elite high school sorority whose members …

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WSJ says investigation of Zimmer’s Christie claims has ‘fizzled’ Most New Jersey political watchers expect imminent indictments from the U.S. Attorney’s office in its year-plus investigation of the administration of Gov. Chris Christie, but according to a Wall Street Journal report, they will most likely not be related to Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s early 2014 …

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Yasmine Petrocelli hopes to continue her education at one of Hoboken’s three charter schools, the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa), when she enters seventh grade this August. But if the Board of Education raises enough money to file a court motion to stop the school from expanding, that may not happen. “Every day, I …

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After braving the long winter, Hoboken-based artists are enjoying a change of scenery in more ways than one. On Saturday, April 18, local painter and printmaker Ricardo Roig opens the first new artist-owned gallery in Hoboken since 2011, relocating his finished artworks from his Harrison Street studio to a well trafficked-storefront on First Street. The …

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Hoboken police and cooperating agencies spent the last week searching for the individual who called in a bomb threat that led to the evacuation of the Neumann Leathers building and the closing of roads at Hoboken’s southern border last Saturday night. After the evacuation was complete, said Police Chief Ken Ferrante, police received a second …

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From a field of nine interviewed candidates, the Hoboken Board of Education appointed its first-ever female superintendent of schools this past Tuesday. With eight votes in favor and one abstention, the board approved a five-year contract with Dr. Christine Johnson, the current superintendent of Boonton’s public school district. Johnson was one of four finalists who …

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