Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Globally-televised boxing match will be held in Jersey City On Saturday, March 14, LGM Promotion, along with Global Boxing will hold the first ever televised championship night of boxing in the history of the Jersey City Armory at 679 Montgomery St. Hudson County has long been home to some of the world’s best boxers and …
From the day Alexander Stamato joined the Cub Scouts at age 6, he thought it might be possible to become an Eagle Scout. Now 12 years later, he achieved what only two percent of all Boy Scouts ever achieve, earning the highest ranking scouting can bestow. A resident of Port Liberte, Stamato was honored by …
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still alive; and the Boy Scouts of America had just been founded. The only flight taken together by Wilbur and Orville Wright occurred at Huffman Prairie Flying Field in Dayton, Ohio, and Thomas Edison introduced his kinetophone, which would later make talking movies possible. That same year, the world would get its first photograph of …
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Residents who attend a hearing about the controversial City Hall Annex proposed for Martin Luther King Drive during the March 11 City Council meeting will discover the project has been reduced in size, but the lease purchase arrangement between the developer and city remains the same. The annex will be built by Brandywine Jersey City …
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Mayor Steven Fulop’s birthday wasn’t exactly the same day as Dr. Suess’, but the students of Mrs. Kenny’s 2nd grade class at Cornelia F. Bradford Elementary School didn’t mind celebrating both on March 2. Sitting on the floor, the students waited in front of an empty chair for Mayor Fulop to arrive. They had planned …
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From the day Alexander Stamato joined the Cub Scouts at age 6, he thought it might be possible to become an Eagle Scout. Now 12 years later, he achieved what only two percent of all Boy Scouts ever achieve, earning the highest ranking scouting can bestow. A resident of Port Liberte, Stamato was honored by …
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History isn’t always written by the winners. That was one of the messages conveyed during a two-hour lesson brought to the historic Harsimus Cemetery on Feb. 22. The history of black soldiers on the Union side during the war has largely remained unheralded, something the members of the New York Regiment United States Colored Troops …
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CNN: Menendez may face charges A report issued by CNN Friday afternoon, as the Reporter was finishing production, said that the U.S. Justice Department is allegedly preparing corruption charges against U.S. Senator Robert Menendez. Menendez, one of the most powerful Democrats in the country, is a former mayor of Union City and Hoboken resident. According …
With trailers housing classrooms at nearly every school in the district, the Jersey City Board of Education is reviewing its options for replacing or doing away with those that are in the worst shape. The district has 52 trailers, and 49 are used for classrooms. The district has evaluated its fleet, looking at their age …
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Mayor Steven Fulop touted the successes of his administration over the last year before a packed house in the City Hall council chambers in his second State of the City address on Feb. 24. “My goal is to show what is possible to accomplish when government functions,” he said. “We’re out to prove that government …
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