Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Guttenberg hires new cop, receives funds for park Guttenberg hired a new special police officer at their Town Council meeting on April 26. Chad J. Smith was hired as a Class II Special Law Enforcement Officer, which are part-time officers used in New Jersey to supplement full-time police. Mayor Gerald Drasheff said that Guttenberg has …
Last week, the Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders – after being forced to hear an appeal from activists fighting a commercial development being built into the Palisades Cliffs – decided to affirm the original Hudson County Planning Board decision to allow the project to move forward. The freeholders voted 8-0-1 on Tuesday, April 20 …
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It may be difficult to imagine North Bergen as a place to collect fossils, but it once was. According to the American Museum of Natural History, Granton Quarry resided on the back slope of the Palisades Cliffs, between railroad lines and Tonnelle Avenue. Nowadays, a Lowes Home Building Center and Tonnelle Plaza sit on the …
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When the seniors of High Tech High School’s Drama Department went to see an original production at Rutgers University last May, it inspired them. The students at the county-run public high school told their teacher, Deborah Arters, that instead of performing a classic, they wished to write their own theatre piece and find their own …
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North Bergen Police observe bottle of Bud in car A North Bergen man was charged with driving while intoxicated and refusing a breathalyzer test after police say they witnessed him allegedly go through five red lights on Tonnelle Avenue at an “extremely high rate of speed” on Wednesday. Commander of the Detective Bureau Lt. Frank …
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New Jersey has many kids in foster care, including several hundred in Hudson County. Parent Fahima Andersen of Jersey City is the mom to one of them – a 3-year-old boy. “There is little support for foster families [from the government],” Andersen said last week. “That’s why I joined the board of FAFSF [Foster and …
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Get updates from the North Bergen Reporteron Twitter.com There is now a new way for North Bergen and Guttenberg residents to keep up with local news from the North Bergen Reporter. You can follow breaking news as it happens by signing up at http://www.twitter.com/NBReporter. Other Hudson Reporter publications are now also using Twitter as well, …
HUDSON COUNTY – Want to know the results of the Board of Education elections in your town? Click on www.hudsonreporter.com tonight to see the updates! Highly contested races are being run in Hoboken, Secaucus, and Jersey City, and there are also elections in North Bergen, Weehawken, and Guttenberg. Besides candidates for seats on the board, …
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Hudson County awarded a construction contract last April for of a soccer/football field that would seat 1,500 people at James J. Braddock Park in North Bergen. But state funding for the project has been frozen pending environmental cleanup, and one local official said the cleanup may never begin. When construction began last summer at the …
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One afternoon, a North Bergen resident walked to Fredmon Park, which sits on the Palisades overlooking the Hudson River – but instead of enjoying the weather, he was greeted with garbage all along the perimeter of where the park ends and the cliffs begin. Ernie Feniello asked his friend David Kronick, an activist, former state …
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