Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
The Jersey City Peace Movement is holding a free event Saturday, Sept. 12 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. The event is 9/12, the Day After and Beyond, “with a tribute to the victims of 9/11/2001 and to 9/11 Truth.” It will include new documentary clips, including “9/11 Blueprint for Truth” introdcued by Frank Agamemnon. …
Decades ago, trains traversed the Liberty State Park area, well before late businessman Morris Pesin started pushing in the 1950s for the land to become a park with views of the river. There are still hints of the area’s railroad past. The old Central Railroad of New Jersey (CRRNJ) terminal, restored in 1980, is now …
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One of Hudson County’s largest festivals returns to the streets of Jersey City this Friday. JC Fridays, a citywide celebration of arts and culture, is a quarterly event that welcomes thousands of guests to the city at the start of every season. Organized by Art House Productions, dozens of local businesses participate by hosting art …
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The New Jersey Chapter of Pajama Program will host its first annual Pillow Talk Cocktail Party inspired by the famous 1950s movie “Pillow Talk” starring Rock Hudson and Doris Day next Saturday, Sept. 12. This is the first event for the New Jersey Chapter, which is the largest in the country, to help raise funds …
Continue reading “Pajamas for homeless and abused kids
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Charges dropped against Judge Irwin Rosen Two years ago, five Jersey City Municipal Court Judges were removed from the bench because of allegedly clearing parking tickets for themselves or friends, but residents said that one of those disciplinary actions was unfair. They said that Judge Irwin Rosen had only dismissed his own ticket because he’d …
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Tonianne Calderone is the Hudson Reporter’s newest “Employee of the Month.” Calderone, a member of the ad sales staff, has spent her whole life in Hoboken. Growing up in an apartment building on Jefferson Street, she saw things change. Like her friends, she went to Catholic schools, most of which have since disappeared. Calderone graduated …
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It’s been said that the New Jersey governor’s race doesn’t really begin in earnest until after Labor Day. But the race between Democratic incumbent Gov. Jon Corzine and Republican challenger Christopher Christie began earlier this summer and has been heating up. Christie, the former U.S. attorney who investigated dozens of political officials for corruption, claims …
Continue reading “Corzine, Christie, and Hudson County
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If the date of Sept. 10 is circled on your calendar, chances are you’re a teacher, student, parent or someone else with a connection with the Jersey City school district, which opens that day for the new school year. Approximately 29,000 students attend one of the 41 elementary and high schools in the city. And …
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John Donahoe recently showed off his home at 108 Grand St. in downtown Jersey City, a three-story brick Victorian built in 1861. Donahoe, along with his brother David, restores old homes in Jersey City. But some of the features in the home, which he bought two years ago and spent year and a half restoring, …
Continue reading “Joe Duffy and his Downtown house
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Filmmakers can sometimes have dreams beyond making the next movie. Sometimes they are about being the next big movie mogul. Coppola formed Zoetrope Studios, Lucas created Lucasfilm and Spielberg co-founded Dreamworks SKG. Garry Pastore, Deborah Mello, and Chuck Abate, who run Hudson Film Group in Jersey City, a small production company, are the next filmmakers …
Continue reading “More Hollywood in Jersey City
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