Category: North Bergen News

Guttenberg Uncle and nephew arrested for pot After Guttenberg Police investigated a car that was allegedly parked illegally, Christopher Sepulveda, 18, Fernando Sepulveda, 55, and Orlando Sepulveda, 59, all of Guttenberg, were arrested when police found what they alleged to be marijuana, ammunition, and pills in their apartment. According to Capt. Joel Magenheimer, on Feb. …

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Students don’t often get to have a popular children’s author read them a story, but last Friday 100 Kennedy School students had Jane Lovascio, a West New York resident, read to them her popular book, “Casey and Bella go to Hollywood!” The story is about the friendship between a Jack Russell Terrier and a Yorkie …

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Gov. Christopher Christie will this month decide the fate of a tax credit program for motion picture and television productions that film in New Jersey. Until the governor suspended this tax credit last year, several Hudson County-based productions, including “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” had benefited from the tax credit, which supporters say led …

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Needy residents can get free food, baby supplies, screenings for one day The Dvine Konektion Community Development Corporation planned to hold an event Saturday (Jan. 19) from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. to provide area residents in need with food and supplies. Residents from the towns of North Bergen, Guttenberg, West New York, Union City, …

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It took 20 years to find funding for the Access to the Region’s Core Tunnel – two NJ Transit tubes that were suppose to create more passenger rail – and then only a year for the project to be cancelled by Gov. Christopher Christie. Now Amtrak’s recently unveiled Gateway Tunnel Project could send more trains …

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The Park Players, a Hudson and Bergen County community theatre group, believe that there is an acting role for everyone, no matter what their age or experience. This month, their production of the musical “Godspell” will feature an entirely new cast, mostly amateurs in their mid-20s. Park Players Chairperson Joseph D. Fiorenza Conklin, who is …

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Although the populations of North Bergen and Guttenberg have increased according to the 2010 U.S. Census, mayors of both towns feel that their communities were undercounted. “In urban areas, people don’t respond and as hard as we work to get them to respond, you just can’t locate everybody,” said North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco last …

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Students don’t often get to have a popular children’s author read them a story, but last Friday 100 Kennedy School students had Jane Lovascio, a West New York resident, read to them her popular book, “Casey and Bella go to Hollywood!” The story is about the friendship between a Jack Russell Terrier and a Yorkie …

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