Category: North Bergen News

Guttenberg will honor those who lost their lives defending this country and those who were responsible for creating the town 150 years ago at two events this coming Saturday. On May 30, the town’s annual Memorial Day service will be held at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Monument, located at J.F.K. Boulevard East (for more …

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The North Bergen Board of Commissioners cut the amount that will be requested from taxpayers to pay for the $111 million school budget at their May 13 meeting. They shaved $751,820 from the original $39 million school tax levy, lowering the school tax increase from 4 to 2 per cent. The remainder of the budget …

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Firefighters concerned about hiring freeze Mayor Richard Turner, the chairman for the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Board, announced at their May 18 meeting that their fiscal 2010 budget would not be ready until next month, at the least. Turner said a scheduled health benefits review was cancelled two weeks ago and rescheduled for …

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It’s going to be a complex task to bore a train tunnel beneath North Bergen, through the sturdy Palisades Cliffs, under the towns of Union City and Hoboken, below the Hudson River, and all the way to a train station in Manhattan – especially since construction in several of these areas will be going on …

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After receiving anonymous phone calls, 13 students in Guttenberg’s only school were found to be non-residents and were told not to come back in September, said Schools Superintendent Dr. Joseph Ramos. The tiny town of Guttenberg has only one elementary school, the Anna L. Klein School. Older children attend North Bergen High School. Three families …

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Juvenile offenders in a Hudson County community service program recently grew flowers that were given to North Bergen pre-kindergarteners in time for Mother’s Day. _____________ “We developed a program for kids to give back to the community.” – John Belluardo________ John Belluardo, a North Bergen school administrator and the director of a community service program …

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A man who had been allegedly passing himself off as a fire extinguisher inspector was arrested by Guttenberg police after they received complaints from merchants in town. Jose Diaz, 53, of Woodridge, N.J., was arrested on May 6 on three charges of theft by deception, forgery, and impersonating a public official. Last month, Guttenberg merchants …

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