Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
HOBOKEN — Among the unfortunate ramifications of the Hoboken train crash is an urban myth that an upstate New York TV station aired an emergency alert the night before related to the crash. There was an unusual hacked alert, but it did not relate to the crash. Read it on Snopes by following this link.
In Hoboken, the National Transportation Safety Board started an investigation into the bizarre train crash in the Hoboken train terminal that occurred on the morning of Thursday, September 29. The crash injured 108 and took the life of Hoboken mother Fabiola Bittar de Kroon, 34. Click here to read more. In Jersey City, in front …
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HOBOKEN — Hoboken Board of education candidates Sheillah Dallara and incumbents Jennifer Evans and Irene Sobolov, running together under the Forward Together banner, have been endorsed by several council members. Council members Tiffanie Fisher, Peter Cunningham, Ravi Bhalla, Jen Giattino, and Jim Doyle invited the public to “meet the team they are supporting” at two …
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HOBOKEN — The data recorder on the train that crashed into the platform in Hoboken on Thursday morning was not working, so it won’t provide any answers for the federal National Transportation Safety Board investigation that started last week. “Unfortunately, the event recorder was not functioning during this trip,” said NTSB Vice Chairman Bella Dinh-Zarr …
HOBOKEN — According to a media release sent out on Friday, New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg, Senator Paul Sarlo, and Senator Bob Gordon are seeking answers as to why NJ Transit has not implemented critical safety controls on its locomotives designed to prevent speed-related accidents. The questions came in the wake of a …
In July of 2010, Natasha McNight-Henderson of Jersey City was 38 years old and finalizing her first adoption — a child whose mother had died and later ended up in a cousin’s custody, a frequent occurrence due to courts’ preference to place children with family members. Two years later, at an adoption party for her …
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Members of the Local Policemen’s Benevolent Association in Weehawken pulled a Boeing 737 plane 12 feet in under 10 seconds to raise money for the New Jersey Special Olympics on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Newark Liberty International Airport. This year is the 20th anniversary of the “Plane Pull” for the NJSO. The police officers and …
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Gray skies and the threat of rain increased the dour mood outside City Hall on Sept. 28 as Mayor Steven Fulop came out to announce that he will run for reelection as mayor and has given up plans to run for governor in 2017. While some of the hundreds of people who gathered in the …
Continue reading “Fulop will run for mayor, not governor
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Marcos Navas was going to quit his profession as an educator in Union City to work on Wall Street, but after he went to an EdCamp meeting, he was inspired to start his own. He and four other local teachers – including North Bergen resident, teacher and former North Bergen Children’s Librarian Krista Welz – …
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Earlier this month, the federal government and the city of Hoboken announced that a team of planners had chosen one of three design alternatives for flood barriers to protect the Hoboken/Weehawken border from storm surges like Hurricane Sandy. This alternative calls for construction of a “flood resistance structure” beginning at the Lincoln Harbor light rail …
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