Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor, To help keep your family and home safe from fire, here are some tips to follow, provided by the New Jersey Fire Sprinkler Advisory Board. Take time to check smoke detectors to ensure they are working properly and have full battery power. You should have at least one smoke alarm for each floor …
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ABC Board insulted concerned residents Dear Editor: On Jan. 31, during the ABC board meeting, the people of North Bergen were rudely attacked by town officials for having the gall to come to a public meeting and voice our concerns about issues that are important to us. The fact that in America, 100 citizens can …
Dear Editor: I am a taxpayer, and I am appalled that the governor is going to allow a billion dollars in tax breaks to corporations (for vouchers etc..) while our public schools are in dire need of funding. Public money should go to public schools! This governor is bent on destroying the public schools! John …
Dear Editor: After hearing and reading so much criticism about local government’s handling of the snow storms this winter in Hudson County as well as New York City, I’d like to send a note of thanks to snow workers from Hoboken to North Bergen for their impressively quick work overnight into Jan. 27th, the day …
Dear Editor: The shooting in Arizona is a tragic event. It left six people dead and many gravely injured, including Rep. Gabriella Giffords. Angry people, whether sane or not, kill or injure people every day all over the world, and each time it is devastating. We want to find something logical we can point to …
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To the Editor: Hudson Toastmasters would like to thank the “Bayonne Community News” for their support over the years. Our meeting notices have been published like clockwork every two weeks. Toastmasters, a public speaking group, is an impressive organization, but without a great publication like the “Community News,” no one would ever know that we …
Dear Editor: The worst thing about your Jan. 16 story reporting Panasonic’s intention to move from Secaucus to Newark in exchange for $100 million in tax breaks is not the loss of jobs for the Secaucus workers or the loss of tax revenue to Secaucus. It is the fact that New Jersey, which is in …
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Dear Editor: I am a member of the North Bergen Concerned Citizens Group and I want to thank the Hudson Reporter for running its story last month on the efforts of the group to protest the overdevelopment along Tonnelle Avenue. I have since heard that some people in Town Hall are not taking our group …
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Dear Editor: I would like to congratulate Mayor Sacco and the town for the excellent job they did during the December 26th snow storm. The snow plows passed through my street several times as well as the salt trucks. It was a monster of a storm, yet they did a great job with the plowing …
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