Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Bob Hurley did not become the legendary coach of Jersey City’s powerhouse St. Anthony High School basketball team overnight. Nor was there an immediate path to his current enshrinement in the Hudson County Sports Hall of Fame. Hurley and four other current Hall of Famers shared their life experiences leading up to their current success …
Several big retailers will be opening throughout this summer at a new mall in North Bergen near the Bergen County border. Vornado Realty Trust has been developing the area along Tonnelle Avenue and 91st Street over the last few years. Two restaurants, Applebee’s and El Polo Loco, opened last year. Vitamin Shoppe, which already has …
With the economy in decline, finding a job is a more daunting task than usual – especially for older residents who have been in the same job for years and don’t know how to search for employment via computer. The North Bergen Municipal Library is now offering monthly résumé and computer workshops for North Bergen …
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North Bergen recently honored its E.M.S. squad for their quick response when a U.S. Airways jet made an emergency landing in the Hudson River last month. Health Director Richard Censullo, who oversees North Bergen E.M.S., said that the local squad members were first responders to the emergency, and that many of them immediately reported to …
Continue reading “North Bergen honors EMS Bar owner pleads to stay open later, but is refused”
North Bergen police arrested a man whom they called a “career criminal” last week after investigating a burglary of $66,000 from a North Bergen house. Steven Scarmato, 29, of Union City was arrested Feb. 11 when police tracked his fingerprints to his current location in the Hudson County Correctional Facility in Kearny. He was there …
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One of the attractions developers haven’t planned for the $2.3 billion Xanadu Meadowlands retail/recreation complex on Route 3 is a roller coaster. But maybe they should. The long-delayed project has had more ups and downs than a ride at Coney Island. A year ago, several companies signed lease agreements to open in Xanadu and made …
A township employee who was once North Bergen’s webmaster and the police chief’s secretary has filed a lawsuit against the township, as well as against Mayor Nicholas Sacco and Commissioner Theresa Ferraro. In the suit, she says that after complaining of sexual harassment, she was demoted and forced to work isolated in what other employees …
“FatLand,” a new novel that wraps its story around a fictitious U.S. territory of the same name, calls attention not only to the bias that is sometimes placed upon overweight people, but to the ways in which a utopia for such people would be impossible. North Bergen author Frannie Zellman’s first published novel deals with …
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The chief financial officer for the North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue department – which provides firefighting services for five towns in northern Hudson County – said in a letter last week that three of those towns owe a total of $10 million to the department. If the issues aren’t resolved, wrote CFO Christopher Pianese …
At Guttenberg’s last Town Council meeting, the council took a final vote to pass four large bond ordinances, even though one resident voiced his opinion that the town is spending more than what was already appropriated in the budget. The first ordinance will allow the town’s bond counsel to issue bonds for $295,000 for the …
Continue reading “Town Council approves bondsGuttenberg may increase time for parking meters”