Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Hoboken firemen wear purple to promote Alzheimer’s research Members of the Hoboken Fire Department and Mayor Dawn Zimmer kicked off a month-long event to raise money and awareness about Alzheimer’s disease on Thursday. During the month of September, firefighters will be wearing and selling purple shirts in support of the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End …
The midwife charged with practicing medicine illegally after a baby died in a 2012 Hoboken home birth has completed a pretrial intervention program designed for first time offenders, according to Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office spokesman Gene Rubino. On Sept. 18, 2012, Olivia Kimball, a 31-year-old resident of Great Meadows in Warren County, assisted in the …
Continue reading “Caught in between
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Summer reading wasn’t just for students this year – the Hoboken Board of Education has had its own assignments to catch up on. After trimming kindergarten teacher’s aides due to an ever tightening school budget in June, the board and its new interim superintendent discovered that Hoboken’s district is actually required to have kindergarten aides …
Continue reading “Oops! Schools shouldn’t have laid off aides
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A laundry list of desires for the future of Hoboken’s Western Edge redevelopment zone was on display at the first public meeting introducing a new round of city-led planning this past week. The meeting was held on Wednesday Aug. 20 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Multi-Service Center on Grand Street. The Western Edge …
Continue reading “The pleading edge
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The dirty CARFAX report was just the beginning of Jim Parascandola’s troubles. When Parascandola, a 16-year resident of Hoboken, found out last month that his parked car had been hit by a Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) truck in January 2013, he began a bewildering process that has left him today no closer …
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In one scene from the Disney blockbuster Frozen, a shopkeeper in a snow-clogged forest advertises a “big summer blowout” on swim trunks and sunscreen as a supernatural blizzard envelops the land. Needless to say, it is poorly received. This past Wednesday night, as a seasonable August gradually gave way to autumn, Hoboken held a big …
Continue reading “Chilling in the park
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HUD review slams Hoboken Housing Authority procurement practices; Garcia blames board, others for issues HOBOKEN—A review of the procurement practices by the Hoboken Housing Authority under former Executive Director Carmelo Garcia was completed by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which funds and oversees the agency. Copies of the review were released by …
In Hoboken, where violent crime is uncommon and murder nearly non-existent, the gruesome deaths dealt by the Hudson River’s rushing current hold an outsized profile in the minds of residents. The fact that drownings in the Hudson are themselves a relatively rare occurrence has not made the phenomenon any less terrifying. According to the New …
Continue reading “Security measures – what’s the status?
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The Hoboken Housing Authority Board of Commissioners may have succeeded in removing former Executive Director Carmelo Garcia, but in its first meeting since his departure this past Thursday, he remained the elephant in the room. When they moved to address a host of emergency issues, Garcia was cited as the culprit for the problems. Though …
Continue reading “Former housing director blamed for problems
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Hudson Reporter writers and graphic artists picked up numerous awards for their work recently when the results of two competitions were announced from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists (NJSPJ) and the Garden State Journalists Association (GSJA). Senior Staff Writer Al Sullivan received three writing awards from the NJSPJ, and former staff writer Amanda …
Continue reading “Hudson Reporter scores big
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