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Now that Guttenberg Superintendent of Schools Thomas Roberts is retiring this summer, an old question has resurfaced about whether a town with one school really needs a superintendent. Guttenberg’s sole school is the Anna L. Klein elementary school. High school students in the district attend nearby North Bergen High school. In 2008, the school board …

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“The Palisades were around long before we were,” Union City Mayor and State Sen. Brian Stack said last week about the 200-million-year-old stretch of cliffs that run through Hudson to Bergen counties. “They should not be further destroyed in exchange for commercial development or profit.” Stack has sponsored the “Save the Hudson River Palisades Act” …

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Appleview hearings coming up There will be two special Planning Board hearings this month related to a controversial condo development proposal for the North Bergen/Guttenberg border. Hearings on the Appleview project have been scheduled for Thursday, July 12 and Thursday, July 26 at 7 p.m. The meetings will be held at the North Bergen Municipal …

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Carmen Perez, a Newkirk Avenue resident, is hoping her neighborhood gets some peace and quiet now that the township is helping her in a battle against a nearby trucking company called Lorenzo Food. Perez said that the company, which moved to the area in 2003, has been operating its loading dock at all hours of …

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In a ceremony in which several students and guests had to be treated for heat exhaustion, North Bergen High School’s largest graduating class received their diplomas Wednesday morning at Bruin Stadium. Six hundred and forty seniors graduated. North Bergen pride “Today is a marvelous day,” Mayor Nicholas Sacco said in his speech. “Forty years ago …

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Guttenberg’s only elementary school, Anna L. Klein School, honored its eighth grade graduating class with a graduation ceremony on Friday, June 15 and with an awards ceremony the following Monday. At the awards ceremony, students heard two big announcements: Superintendent Thomas Roberts will leave at the end of this summer, and a project has begun …

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North Bergen was named, at one time, the second hilliest municipality in the country next to San Francisco, according to local officials. The hills are one of North Bergen’s prominent features. They are spread throughout North Bergen and range from a small slope to a winding dip that is several blocks long.

More than 5,000 tons of trash were brought into the Meadowlands every day, six days a week, 300 days a year, from 118 New Jersey municipalities in the 1960s, Dr. Angela Cristini told seniors during a presentation at Meadowlands Environment Center in Lyndhurst on June 19. The lecture was called “Why are the ruins of …

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Two events at library North Bergen Public Library is having a monthly reading series called Literature Lives and an Open Mic night on June 27 at 7 p.m. The featured artists will be Kabu, Phoebe Farber, and Francis Mateo with Wilson Santos as the host. The event will be held at 8411 Bergenline Ave. For …

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