Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Hudson County sheriff asking for help to solve hit-and-run fatality Following a hit and run Thursday evening that resulted in the fatality of a woman whose identity was not determined by press time, Hudson County Sheriff Frank X. Schillari is asking anyone with information to please step forward. Sheriff’s officers spotted the victim near the …
Overworked parents employ many strategies to occupy their kids. The Jersey City Free Public Library has offered an option, for nine years, of letting parents and kids call in to hear stories read by city officials – even one former mayor who has passed away – before they go to bed. And the kids are …
Continue reading “GOODNIGHT, MAYOR!
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The City Council learned the bad news at the Feb. 10 caucus meeting. The closing of the Pulaski Skyway in March will likely cause massive traffic backups in Jersey City and throughout Hudson County as cars bound for Hoboken and the Holland Tunnel scramble to find to find alternate routes. The 81-year-old bridge between Jersey …
Continue reading “Plan alternate routes
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The Jersey City Fire Department received a $6.87 million federal grant for the Jersey City Fire Department that will help replace or retain 49 firefighters who either previously retired or whose positions were slated for elimination due to municipal budget constraints. The department intends to hire 30 new firefighters. According to the International Association of …
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The county has had to buy more salt for county roads than anticipated in their budget, so they will have to find or transfer more funding to cover it. With record levels of snowfall so far this year, the county said as of last week that it has already spent more than the $170,000 it …
Continue reading “Salt in the wound?
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In Hudson County, where political disputes create deep divides even among former political allies, the sudden death of Harrison Mayor Raymond McDonough on Feb. 11 seems to have brought about a nearly universal tone of regret. McDonough died of a massive heart attack while in his office. “Mayor McDonough threw every fiber of his being …
Continue reading “Harrison Mayor McDonough dies at 65
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Verizon building collapses under snow Heavy snow is believed to blame for the collapse of a one-story Verizon building on Pamrapo Avenue on Thursday, Feb. 13. According to city spokeswoman Jennifer Morrill, Jersey City Police, Fire and the Office of Emergency Management were on the scene of a one-story building collapse which occurred around noon …
Faced with the threat of losing federal funding for its Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, in January the city relocated the program’s office to one central location on Summit Avenue. This, according to city officials, will be a relatively temporary arrangement until more permanent facilities can be found later. The city has been put …
Continue reading “City consolidates WIC services
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Local legend claims that Hoboken’s famed crooner Frank Sinatra decided to pursue a career in singing after seeing Bing Crosby perform at the Loew’s Theatre in 1934. As with many kids at the time, Sinatra had come to the Journal Square theatre (via public transportation) because that part of Jersey City was the place to …
Continue reading “Taking the next step?
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A program designed to avoid foreclosures on property owners and eviction of renters who suffered from the impact of Hurricane Sandy apparently did not reach those people who might have benefited most, members of the Hudson County Board of Freeholders learned early this month. Part of the reason, said Freeholder Bill O’Dea, is because the …
Continue reading “Use it or lose it
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