Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
After being diagnosed with a medical condition that threatens her life, a Union City woman was forced to spend two critical months searching for a doctor willing to help her. Peggy Albedhady, 47, learned she had a 6-millimeter brain aneurysm, an abnormal bulging of an artery in her brain, last November. She said that since …
After following months of leads and even browsing MySpace.com, Guttenberg police recently arrested four graffiti artists who allegedly painted “tags” on freight trains and walls from Hudson County to the Jersey shore. The four men admitted to many of the tags and had interesting explanations for their actions, according to the police reports. The Guttenberg …
Students sifted through organs, some healthy, but most damaged from ailments like heart disease, cancer, or cirrhosis. At North Bergen High School’s HealthCorps fair on Jan. 27, students donned gloves and were able to pick up livers, hearts, and other organs donated by the morgue at Columbia University Hospital to see firsthand what can happen …
Two lawsuits against the township – one involving a police car striking a vehicle while in pursuit, and another concerning a deli torn down after being declared an unsafe structure – were recently settled out of court. Resolutions passed on Jan. 28 at the North Bergen Commissioner’s Meeting outlined the settlements. Bruce Truppner, who sued …
Continue reading “Police chase incurs costNB pays $199K to settle suits; may tighten bar hour law”
North Bergen blamed for ‘syrup’ smell in Manhattan A strange, sweet smell that wafted over parts of New York City, Brooklyn, and Staten Island in 2005 and again recently was determined last week to not be a terroristic threat, but most likely the product of a fragrance factory in North Bergen, according to the New …
The Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders has honored High Tech and County Prep High School for achieving outstanding evaluations in the annual U.S. News and World Report ranking. High Tech High School received a Silver Medal for the second year in a row, placing it in or near the top five percent in the …
Hudson Reporter Circulation Coordinator Luis Vasquez is a guy who rarely says no. “That’s how willing and able he is,” said his boss, Circulation Director Roberto Lopez, last week. “I’ve said to him, ‘You can say ‘no’ to some things.’ ” Vasquez, who is on the front lines of circulation for the Reporter chain’s more …
Continue reading “Spreading the newsLuis Vasquez is HR’s first ‘Employee of Month’”
A week ago Thursday, Luisa Medrano, a Hudson County bar owner who pleaded guilty to a role in an international human smuggling ring in 2006, was granted probation by U.S. District Judge Joel Pisano in Trenton and allowed to return to work, rather than spend the 24 to 30 months in jail she’d been facing. …
Most of the volunteers working with Netta Meltzer’s Special Young People of North Bergen program say that she first lured them to help out with the area’s mentally disabled people years ago. “She dragged me in 20 years ago and I haven’t gotten out since,” Debbie Salamon joked recently. “Without her, I don’t know where …
An ordinance introduced at the Jan. 14 North Bergen Commissioners meeting will allow the township to prepare for the opening of a mall being built on 91st Street. The property is being developed by Vornado Realty Trust and will include numerous “big box” stores, like BJ’s Wholesale Club, along with various restaurants. Town Administrator Chris …
Continue reading “Mall coming to Tonnelle AveTown also gets grants for traffic lights”