Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Freeholders hold hearing about three-store developent on Palisades The county board of freeholders held a public hearing Monday night about whether developers can build a coffee shop, Walgreens and bank of America on the Palisades hills on River Road – a hearing that activists went to court earlier this year to force them to have. …
Many vacant homes in New Orleans still bear the fading spray paint that once indicated how many dead were found inside. Four years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, North Bergen artist Henry Hechavarria, 26, is involved in fixing it up – and turning at least one home into art. Hechavarria first came to the …
Continue reading “Beautifying blighted New Orleans
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Pat Keefe, a North Bergen resident who has relied on commuting by NJ Transit’s Hudson-Bergen Light Rail for the last three years to get to her job in Jersey City, was not at all happy with the proposed fare increase last week. “I think it stinks,” said Keefe. “I think that [the light rail] needs …
Continue reading “Trouble on the tracks
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A North Bergen police officer was able to stop a man from jumping off an a highway overpass last week. According to Commander of the Detective Bureau Lt. Frank Cannella, police received a 911 call on March 15 at 8:02 a.m. of a “man hanging from the overpass.” Six police units were dispatched to the …
Continue reading “NBPD talks man off dangerous ledge
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Former state Assemblyman Louis Manzo, at a press conference in Jersey City on Monday, blasted the federal government’s July 2009 corruption probe that resulted in the arrests of many local politicians. He claimed it was tainted by misconduct from prosecutors involved in his case and charged that the probe was an effort to get former …
Continue reading “Lou said what?
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Palisades Medical Center staff members can now complete their advanced cardiovascular life support training with a computerized mannequin, which they can even use at home. According to Director of Education Rosemarie Bauer, she was approached by the HeartCode Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) online program last year. ACLS training is a part of hospital staff’s …
Continue reading “Practice makes perfect
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NB, Guttenberg to lose state school aid Gov. Chris Christie gave his address to the state legislature on Tuesday regarding the 2010-2011 $28.3 billion budget. Christie called for cuts in state and local government spending such as a reduction in municipal aid of $445 million. He also touted Proposition 2.5 – a constitutional amendment that …
Continue reading “NORTH BERGEN BRIEFS
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Gov. Christopher Christie’s arrival in Hudson County on March 17 was heavily laden with film and musical metaphors – with allusions to scenes in films like “Casablanca” and to the Kenny Rodgers tune “The Gambler” – but his message was clear: he had to cut the state budget, and he was perfectly willing to take …
Continue reading “Tough medicine
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At their most recent meeting on March 8, the Guttenberg Housing Authority passed a contract but refused to say who or what the contract was for, adding that it had just been discussed during their half-hour closed, non-public session. The Guttenberg Housing Authority is the agency that oversees the town’s subsidized housing, and is funded …
Continue reading “The secret contract
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For one North Bergen High School senior, music has always been both a passion and a work in progress. Leonardo De Jesus began piano lessons as a child and learned other instruments in later years. He benefited from a musically competitive relationship with his older brother Miguel, who is now a musical director at a …
Continue reading “Marching to a different beat
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