Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Christie signs legislation merging Meadowlands Commission and NJ Sports Authority In a development expected to reap a tax savings for North Bergen, the New Jersey Meadowlands Authority will merge with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority as a result of new legislation signed by Gov. Christopher Christie on Thursday, Feb. 5. The bill will …
“It was planned to be a cute place where overflow soccer people could come in and play. And what it became was kind of a nightmare for the neighborhood.” North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco made those comments last week about the dirt field at the north end of James J. Braddock North Hudson County Park, …
Continue reading “Braddock Park 2.0
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Officials have determined that the massive fire that consumed the Avalon housing complex in Edgewater two weeks ago was started accidentally by maintenance workers using a torch to make plumbing repairs inside an apartment. The workers allegedly tried to extinguish the blaze themselves, taking more than 15 minutes to call 911. Ultimately the fire that …
Continue reading “‘The good of people showed through’
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Fluke season had just begun, and Bruce Dillin of Bayonne was scouting the Hackensack River across from Laurel Hill Park in Secaucus for a spot to trap killie fish he could use as bait. “I remember it being a hot sunny day,” he said. “I was in my kayak, and looked at a stream near …
Continue reading “‘On a mission from God’
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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the Shore? Riding a camel in the …
Continue reading “Reporter on Vacation
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Library now open Sundays, offering varied programming The main branch of the North Bergen Public Library, 8411 Bergenline Ave., will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays throughout the year in addition to the normal operating hours of Monday through Thursday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday/Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 …
Members of the North Bergen Police Department were honored on Thursday, Jan. 9 for the services they provide to the community every day of the year. Officers were cited for their hard work and quick actions in not only solving crimes and bringing criminals to justice, but literally saving lives. “There were certain things we …
Continue reading “‘We are the community’
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“I can still picture it in my mind all these years later, that moment when they opened the curtain,” said Nancy Pryor. “When I saw the body, she had been gone a couple of days and had been beaten. They only showed me her face and my first reaction was, ‘That’s not her.’ But having …
Continue reading “Conspiracy, or serial killer?
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Burglary, assault, drugs, DWI. The Guttenberg police have been busy cleaning up the streets recently, arresting wrongdoers for a variety of offenses. On Monday, Dec. 29 a resident on 68th Street heard loud noises around 3 a.m. When he stepped onto the stairs outside his second floor apartment to see what was going on, he …
Continue reading “Guttenberg PD on the case
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Hudson County has lost more than $2 million out of $4 million in Superstorm Sandy renter and home owner relief because agencies assigned to the task of finding people in need failed to reach out into the community, county officials said at the Board of Freeholder caucus last Tuesday. The one exception noted by Freeholder …
Continue reading “County agency failures led to $2 million in lost aid
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