Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
NB will host annual Night Out Against Crime On Aug. 3 North Bergen will celebrate its annual Night Out Against Crime event. Mayor Nicholas Sacco, Public Safety Commissioner Theresa Ferraro, township commissioners, and the North Bergen Police Department invite residents to visit three different locations to celebrate the event, which promotes a partnership between law …
A trial date was set for former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and one of his political associates last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the massive New Jersey corruption scandal that rocked the Garden State last July and led to the arrests of 46 public officials and religious leaders. In addition, another former …
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Commuters in North Bergen and surrounding towns sometimes prefer to save time and money by skipping NJ Transit’s buses and taking the smaller, independent jitney vans that run to New York City and Journal Square. But in the last few years, several county inspections have forced the jitneys to pay fines for safety violations including …
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A local community theatre group promises that their modernized take on “Jesus Christ Superstar” will be unlike any other performance when it premieres at the end of this month. When “Superstar” first was released as an album and then a musical on Broadway in the 1970s, it was considered controversial because Jesus was shown through …
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Reporter staff With all the heat outside, why not find a cool place somewhere indoors and curl up with a book? To get a few suggestions, the Reporter asked Hudson County residents to share what’s on their summer reading lists right now. “I read a lot of sports stuff. There is a book out there …
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North Bergen Police claim man allegedly beat tenant North Bergen Police arrested Patrick Ferraro, 46, last week and charged him with beating a man who they said lived in his basement. On July 6 at 11 p.m., police responded to the 1400 block of 44th Street, where they found a “trail of blood” leading to …
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Young teen dies after bicycle accident According to North Bergen Lt. Frank Cannella, on July 11, a 14-year-old boy who had been travelling down the steep hill of 43rd Street near Durham Avenue on his bike crashed and was “found lying in the ground in the middle of the street.” North Bergen EMS and Jersey …
The North Bergen Planning Board began hearing testimony June 24 from a developer who wants to build 60 residential units near a high-pressured Transco gas pipeline and near the Galaxy Towers Condos in Guttenberg. The units are in North Bergen, but near the border with Guttenberg. Approximately 60 local residents, including a group of Galaxy …
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North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue, the fire department that covers five North Hudson communities, has closed two of their 18 firehouses/companies, relocated two others, and made additional changes in the name of efficiency, officials announced Tuesday. No longer will they rotate the closing of various firehouses for certain hours in order to save money. …
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North Bergen High School valedictorian Raider Alvarez told his graduating classmates that everything they had learned and accomplished over the last four years wasn’t just so that they could pass a test, but because they were studying for lifelong success. “Remember what matters most, the rarest resource on this planet, isn’t money or oil, but …
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