Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Union deal triggers changes to public school calendar; half-day scheduled for Wed. A move by the Hoboken Board of Education to create a half day of classes with only eight days notice at last Tuesday’s monthly meeting was roundly criticized by some parents, including candidates for the upcoming school board election. The district announced on …
Five of the eight candidates running for the Hoboken Board of Education this fall appeared at a forum this past Wednesday to debate how best to address charter school expansion, budget challenges, and low student achievement. Two full slates of candidates were in attendance at the event, which was organized by the Hoboken Quality of …
Continue reading “United in opposition
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All the world may be a stage, but in cramped Hoboken, the space for art seems smaller than ever. Yet, one professional theater company has found a cozy part of town to keep hosting its productions. As it raises the funding needed to renovate its new home at The Artisan at 1408 Clinton St., Hoboken’s …
Continue reading “Little room, big nose
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A New Jersey administrative law judge has reversed a 2013 Local Finance Board ruling that Hoboken City Councilman-at-Large Ravinder Bhalla violated state ethics law by voting to award a contract to a lawyer with whom he shared an office. In a summary decision issued on Sept. 19, Judge James Geraghty found that Bhalla’s joint lease …
Continue reading “Judge: Councilman Bhalla innocent of ethics violation
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In 1993, actor Scott Schiaffo was 28, living with his mother in Garfield, N.J., earning a living at two or three retail jobs, and on-and-off binge drinking. He was also working with a Hoboken-based acting coach to try to land film and TV gigs. As actors did in the pre-internet days, he looked for audition …
Continue reading “20 years of ‘Clerks’!
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Hannah Moss, a Stevens Cooperative School 8th grader, has discovered a love of running. Coming off a successful track and field season last spring, she shares about the joy it was to participate in practices, run alone on the weekends and push herself in new ways. “It isn’t like the other team sports I’ve tried,” …
Continue reading “Cross-country season is here
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Luxury Hoboken condo building to vote on policy banning big dogs Over the next month, residents of a high-end condo complex in Hoboken’s northern end will vote on whether to bag their doggie policy. Currently, the Master Deed of the 526-unit Hudson Tea Building at Fifteenth and Washington streets bans residents from having dogs larger …
The rustic industrial complex squeezed between Newark Street and Observer Highway is still known as Neumann Leathers, but for the first time ever, it is no longer owned by the family of tanners that founded it on the edge of a stream in 1863. Last month, Bill Bernheim, a descendant of original owner Rafael Neumann, …
Continue reading “Neumann Leathers gets new owners
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After years of planning, Hoboken is moving forward on complete redesigns of three key streets. But some concerned citizens say that the some of the new designs are overzealous and wonder where the funding will come from. Washington Street Two weeks ago, RBA Group presented its final concept plan for the complete street redesign of …
Continue reading “Which direction?
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Hoboken teacher Mark Mautone has helped countless children overcome learning and developmental disorders. But he didn’t fully grasp the importance of his work until his own son was diagnosed with a nine-month speech delay and epileptic seizures. “As long as I’ve been in special ed,” he said, “as many times as I’ve taught kids, and …
Continue reading “Making his mark
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