Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Freeholders move ahead with new county school in Secaucus On Nov. 12, members of the Hudson County Board of Freeholders reviewed early plans for a campus of the county’s public technical high school to be constructed on county property in Secaucus. Frank Gargiulo, superintendent of Hudson County Schools of Technology, said the project is estimated …
People came in droves to see the Oct. 21 promotion of police officers at City Hall. Family and friends cheered as officers were sworn in to their new ranks, the first promotion ceremony in Jersey City since 2012, filling ranks of retiring police – more of which are expected to be announced in the near …
Continue reading “Getting their due
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For those who attended this year’s Jersey City Art & Studio Tour, the event was almost too large and sprawling to take in, and the wisest art lovers picked selective sites to visit rather than trying to run to studios in every corner of Jersey City. “I felt like there was a lot of buzz …
Continue reading “Showing off their stuff
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Forty years ago, when Dennis Elwell came home from Vietnam, the bus dropped him off in the center of Secaucus and he took the long walk alone to the North End where his family lived. It was a lonely walk, one thick with memories, since his family had lived here for generations. Like most veterans …
Continue reading “‘They don’t want you to fight back’
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High winds greeted Henry Greenfield in late October as he made his way through Kansas on his bicycle. Struggling with hearing loss for all of his 23 years, Greenfield started his trip to Culver City, Calif. from Jersey City on Sept. 23 in support for No Limits, a not-for-profit organization that provides after school and …
Continue reading “Wheeling across the nation
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The committee reviewing the latest bids for the city’s ambulance contract has recommended the contract be awarded to Jersey City Medical Center, city officials announced on Thursday. The release of the committee’s report comes as an apparent result of a protest by community activists on Nov. 3, who demanded the report be released early to …
Continue reading “City’s ambulance contract may go to JCMC
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Man dies in freak accident A worker delivering gypsum board to a construction site on Christopher Columbus Drive on Monday, Nov. 3, was struck in the head by a 1-pound tape measure and died shortly afterward. Jersey City police found the man lying on the ground in front of the construction site after he was …
Under a new table of organization for the Jersey City Police Department proposed by Public Safety Director James Shea, direct oversight of day-to-day operations would be shifted from the chief of police to a newly-appointed deputy police chief. Shea gave an overview of the changes proposed for the Police Department during the City Council caucus …
Continue reading “Police Dept. revamp proposed
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Two slates of three candidates and two independents are running to fill three seats for three-year terms in the Board of Education election to be decided Tuesday, Nov. 4. The biggest issues are the stalled negotiations for a teachers’ contract and support or non-support for Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marcia V. Lyles. The board’s $655 …
Continue reading “Dr. Lyles, teacher’s contract are the issues
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Who would disagree that William Shakespeare covered just about every aspect of human experience and emotion? On Oct. 11, the Hudson Shakespeare Company set out to prove the point with “The Infernal Kingdom,” a Shakespearian tour of Dante’s Inferno that set select scenes from various Shakespeare works in each of Dante’s circles of hell. The …
Continue reading “A bard’s trip through hell
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