Category: North Bergen News

The village of Bergen was established on Sept. 5, 1661, 30 years after the some of the villagers of New Netherlands in Manhattan crossed the Hudson River and settled along the Palisade cliffs. Seven years later, after the territory came under British rule, the area where the township currently exists became known as “the Town …

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President Elect Barack Obama announced last week that a close advisor in the past, 25-year CIA veteran John Brennan, will serve as his Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor for Counterterrorism. Brennan, a North Bergen native, will have the rank of assistant to the president. “John has the experience, vision and integrity to …

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Medrano released on probation, helped convict Mayor Della Donna According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Ronald Wigler, 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 on Jan. 14. Medrano admitted to harboring …

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After missing more than a year’s worth of Guttenberg’s Joint Planning/Zoning Board meetings, Melanie Henry may be replaced at the next council meeting, officials said last week. Because Guttenberg is a small town, its planning and zoning boards are combined. The board rules on whether a development proposal conforms to existing zoning guidelines, and also …

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It has been almost two decades since Michael Rees began looking at how computers could impact his art. “Right around the early ’90s, the intersection between the speed of the computer, graphics cards, and programs came together to make it possible to make something on the computer and get it out to the world,” said …

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Along North Bergen western cliffs, Hilda Kohl has been virtually trapped within a one-block radius for years. Kohl, 63, fell outside of her home in North Bergen’s senior housing at 6299 Grand Ave. four years ago and suffered bilateral sever osteoarthritis of the knees and Lumbo-Sacral Degenerative Disc Disease. According to a letter from her …

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A former North Bergen Little League president who was also training to be a housing inspector in the township has been charged with a carjacking and with two sex crimes in separate North Jersey towns. Julian Cosma, 48, of Moonachie was arrested by Lyndhurst Police on Dec. 27 after a Weehawken woman said that he …

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The United States Soccer Women’s National Team and his own children motivated Roberto Zuluga to begin his North Bergen recreation coaching career in 2004. Zuluga said last week that one day, his daughter Andrea came home and told him she would like to play soccer “because the U.S. Women’s Team are champions. She said, ‘All …

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