Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Few people are able to turn their obsessions into full-time careers. Mark Lapidos, founder and organizer of the annual Festival for Beatles Fans, is one of the lucky few. “I fell in love with the Beatles from the first time I heard ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ in ’64. In 1973 I just said …
Continue reading “Beatlemania coming to MeadowlandsAnnual tribute festival is back”
When Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy endorsed Barack Obama for U.S. President two years ago, little did he know that the payoff would be more than just his candidate getting elected. Money from the federal government has been pouring into New Jersey’s second largest city as the result of Obama’s federal economic stimulus plan, officially …
Mayor Jerramiah Healy and his full slate of nine City Council candidates submitted their petitions Tuesday for the upcoming mayor and council elections on May 12. The City Clerk’s Office certified those petitions the following day. Thus, Healy joined Assemblyman/former City Council President L. Harvey Smith and former Assemblyman Louis Manzo as a certified candidate …
At least 30 stray cats live in a colony in Lincoln Park, local animal activists say, and scores of others roam the city. They pose a problem because they fight with other cats, get sick, and sometimes produce more wild cats. A feral cat that is disturbing the neighborhood may be picked up by animal …
Continue reading “Sterilizing city’s stray cats Workshops start on March 28 to train public”
NBA basketball legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson paid a visit to the new Magic Johnson Marketplace restaurant at 95 Greene St. in the busy Exchange Place area of town Wednesday. Johnson chatted with customers and fans, toured the restaurant – the first Magic Johnson Marketplace in the nation – spent time meeting with the staff at …
Continue reading “Food that’s ‘Magic!’ Magic Johnson Marketplace restaurant opens in Exchange Place”
At a morning celebration at Casa Columbo on Monmouth Street in Jersey City on Feb. 21, Filipinos of various ages were socializing, having breakfast, and honoring several elders who don’t get out too often these days. The celebration was held to acknowledge the $198 million allotted under the recently approved $787 billion federal stimulus bill …
People were holding up their brooms and even shovels, looking for a “clean sweep” of crime in their neighborhoods as they listened to speakers at the Public Safety Rally on Tuesday at Christ the King Church in Jersey City. About 500 people including community activists, loved ones of shooting victims, and mayoral candidates offered perspectives …
Continue reading “Crime rally draws 500Man attacked with brick succumbs to injuries”
Ever since one of Jersey City’s two animal shelters was taken out of commission last year due to health violations, the fate of the city’s stray animals and even its pets seems to have gotten more dire. Last week, two of the city’s animal control officers were being investigated after they picked up a woman’s …
Jersey City Police Officer Cora Kerton has become more than a local presence with her work as a Community Relations Officer. Kerton, 38, is a nominee for the 2009 All-Star Contest on the long-running crime show “America’s Most Wanted.” The contest started in February and runs until April 12. A police officer for the past …
There were four trees growing in the small plaza on the southeast corner of Newark and Jersey avenues in downtown Jersey City. Now they are but a distant memory. On February 25, also Ash Wednesday, workers from the Jersey City Division of Parks and Forestry did what some view as an unrepentant act by cutting …
Continue reading “What happened to the trees? Downtown residents upset over cutting in pocket park”