Category: Hoboken News

Arts and Music Festival is today Hoboken’s premier cultural event, the Arts and Music Festival, happens twice per year. Last September’s event, which drew thousands, was one of the most successful and widely-attended in the event’s history. Today, Sunday, May 4, the city will try to capitalize on that success with the spring version of …

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The city of Hoboken collected nearly $1 million more in revenue from parking tickets in 2013 than in 2012, according to records obtained through the Open Public Records Act and provided to The Reporter. The number of tickets issued shot from roughly 103,500 in 2012 to 127,568 last year, pulling in total revenues of $5,595,846, …

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Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer released new journal entries last week that shed light on why she waited eight months to allege that top aides to Gov. Chris Christe made apparently illegal suggestions to her last spring. On Monday, Zimmer sent a letter to four high ranking members of the New Jersey State Senate in regards …

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Jailyne Aguilar, 17, a junior at Bayonne High School, knows what a phone book is, but she has only used it once. “It was a very long time ago,” she said. It was seven years ago, to be exact – when Aguilar was 10 years old. “I use my phone, Facebook, and stuff like that,” …

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Second Ward City Councilwoman Beth Mason met with former Pres. Bill Clinton and officials in the Obama administration last week to discuss policy initiatives pertinent to both Hoboken and the nation as a whole. Additionally, she traveled to Washington two weeks ago to meet with the New Jersey Congressional delegation on equal pay for women, …

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Dorota Haragova of Hoboken and her classmates from Jersey City – Kyra Turner, Laiba Khan, and Malaika Syed – gave a collective shudder during their presentation on lymphatic system during the one-day showcase on the human body held by Explore Middle School, a county public middle school, on March 26. Over the years students from …

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Search continues for missing Hoboken jogger It’s been almost four weeks, and few new clues have been released in the case of missing Hoboken jogger Andrew Jarzyk, 27, who disappeared in the early morning hours of Sunday, March 30. Now, a Facebook page has been added to help find him, nine billboards have been posted …

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