Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Legislators want to extend light rail to Bergen Who put the bomp in the bomp, bomp, bomp, and who put the Bergen in the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail? The latter was done at a time when the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail train was supposed to extend from Bayonne all the way to Ridgefield in Bergen County — …
Before the 2013-2014 high school wrestling season began, Anthony Giraldo made three lofty goals that he aspired to attain. Giraldo, a Guttenberg resident who is a senior at High Tech High School but wrestles for North Bergen, wanted to win the prestigious Beast of the East tournament in Delaware. He also hoped to finish the …
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“He just wanted to go out and unwind,” said Jorge Monroig about his brother Omar. On March 21, 2012, Omar had celebrated his birthday quietly with his wife and son. Two days later, on a Friday, “He went out with his coworker, just to have a few cocktails and relax,” said his brother. They were …
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Professional Broadway actors couldn’t do it. Stage actors take months to learn their roles, with intensive rehearsals and dedicated staffs and millions of dollars of support. But at the Robert Fulton School in North Bergen, about 80 school kids in grades one through eight learned an entire musical in just four days. And they did …
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St. Joseph of the Palisades Church has been servicing the North Bergen, Guttenberg, and West New York area for 150 years. More or less. “The foundation date of the parish is sort of nebulous,” explained Msgr. Gregory Studerus last month. “In looking at historical records, we found that the first official baptism that took place …
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Spring Awakening at High Tech High School Winner of eight Tony Awards, including best musical, Spring Awakening is a rock musical adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 expressionist play about the trials, tribulations, and exhilaration of the teen years. High Tech students will be not only acting, singing, and dancing, but also playing their own instruments …
“There are a lot of potholes right now,” said Greg Longo, one of a crew working to repair the streets of North Bergen on this snowy winter day. “What happens with potholes is you get the freeze and thaw. You get a crack in the street, water gets underneath, you get the freeze and it …
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For Union City resident David Sepulveda, a graduate of North Bergen High School, finding a new, perhaps permanent solution to flooding due to storm surges like those in Hurricane Sandy led to he and his companions from New York Schools of Technology to become a finalists in the National Architectural Competition. Sepulveda, Arianna Aremlli, and …
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Hoboken-based filmmaker Frank Gigante is set to begin working on a new short film, “Broken Silence,” about the dangers of bullying. The film, written by Gigante, is one of many new projects in the works for Gigante’s company, My Way Produzioni. Inspired by the growing number of bullying-related suicides making headlines, Gigante conveys the film’s …
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Parents of infant killed in jitney accident sue driver, owner The parents of an infant killed in an accident involving a jitney are suing the driver and the owner of the jitney. Eight-month-old Angelie Paredes was in her stroller on July 30 when a jitney jumped the curb on Boulevard East in West New York …