Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Investigators crack 20-year old murder case The 20-year-old murder case of Dorothy LeConte, a Haitian woman from North Bergen who was raped and strangled in July of 1989, may be solved because of a DNA test. LeConte, at the time 22 years old, had been visiting family relatives in Hempstead, Long Island when she was …
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Bedbugs bite – and they’re awfully hard to get rid of once they invade your mattress. Unfortunately, they’ve recently been spotted in a North Bergen senior housing building, and officials are trying to deal with the problem. The creepy insect feeds off of blood from humans and other mammals. They’re hard to detect, reproduces up …
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Manhattan Trailer Court residents who only have a few months until their Jan. 30, 2010 eviction have once again reached out for help from Mayor Nicholas Sacco. At the North Bergen Commissioners Meeting on Sept. 23, more than 50 of the trailer park’s residents came to speak. More than two years ago, the death of …
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Samantha Dunn may only be 6 years old, but she has already gotten the opportunity to appear on television shows like Ugly Betty and in films like Salt. Samantha’s mother Sandra Almeida said that her daughter expressed interest in acting fairly young. She signed her up for ballet class and an acting course called Stage …
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Many people are disappointed that summer is over and cold weather is on the horizon. With fall having started last week, it’s an understandable reaction. However, enjoying the scenery of the leaves changing in the next few weeks may soften the blow. James J. Braddock Park in North Bergen already has autumn palettes of yellow, …
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At North Bergen’s 16th annual senior picnic, not only were seniors treated to a day outside of their homes, but Gov. Jon Corzine stopped by while on the campaign trail. According to North Bergen Commissioner Theresa Ferraro, whose department organizes the event, around 1,000 seniors were bussed to Schuetzen Park Ballroom on Wednesday. A disc …
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Eight years may have passed since the World Trade Center was attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, but the loss of those who perished that day is still felt strongly in North Bergen and Guttenberg. Both towns hosted ceremonies to honor those who died from the terrorist attacks that day. On Sept. 11 at 9:15 a.m., …
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Palisades Medical Center updated its emergency room this summer and continues to fine-tune the process in order to address the medical dilemma of wait times. Its emergency room now uses a Rapid Evaluation Unit (REU), where patients are asked questions and given a medical exam by two nurses: a technician and a physician. They often …
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Students who needed extra help with math and language arts skills traditionally were pulled out of the classroom and taught by basic skills teachers. But now two North Bergen schools are part of a pilot program in which those same teachers come into the classroom to aid those who need extra help. The program, being …
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The majority of Hudson County residents probably do not realize that some of their neighbors are keeping a special kind of gold in their backyards. Honey cultivated by the New Jersey state insect, the honeybee, is not only produced on farms and in the suburbs, but in urban areas as well. There are at least …
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