Category: North Bergen News

“When it comes to monogamy we paint it as a fairy tale, but the truth is we’re not a very monogamous society,” said sports attorney Noel Biderman in a phone interview last week. As the founder and CEO of AshleyMadison.com, Biderman is quite literally banking on infidelity. Founded in 2002, the site is designed to …

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In June of 2012, The Reporter ran a story entitled “Shaping up for summer” about the different fitness options available throughout North Bergen. Accompanying the article was a photograph of local resident Chris Rolon, who had begun a regimen to lose weight. At his heaviest, Chris weighed 385 pounds. Now, at age 29, he’s down …

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In the midst of this brutal winter, the Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC) is working overtime to feed and house the needy at their homeless shelter in Union City and elsewhere. Among their projects, they recently gave a complete overhaul to their thrift shop at 113 37th Street in that city. “We have some very …

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“No one should have to die of breast cancer,” said Dr. Robbi Kemper, medical director for CarePoint Breast Center. The center at Christ Hospital in Jersey City is now performing new procedures that have not been available before in Hudson County. Unlike only a decade ago, breast cancer detected through regular screening is curable, Kemper …

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When he and his staff clean up the ferry boat at the end of the day, Capt. Mike Muia, a 15-year veteran of New York Waterways, usually finds things that people leave behind. Generally, staff that work for NY Waterways set these things aside in the lost and found. For Muia, this is not enough …

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Liggio retiring, Sacco endorses Vainieri for freeholder Elected to the North Bergen Board of Commissioners in 1985 as part of the recall team, Freeholder Thomas Liggio served with Mayor Nicholas Sacco from the beginning of his administration until 1999, when he successfully ran for a seat on the Board of Chosen Freeholders. Since then he …

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If you’ve ever visited the Coach House Diner, located in North Bergen near the Union City border, you can be assured of one thing: it wasn’t closed. That’s because the restaurant has been open consistently, serving diners 24/7 since the end of World War II. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the establishment, which …

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More than 110 million viewers saw this year’s Super Bowl, making it the most watched television event in U.S. history. That means a lot of people saw 22-year-old North Bergen resident Ashley Marie Gonzalez, whether they know it or not. “We were chosen to be a part of the Super Bowl halftime show,” said Gonzalez, …

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Passengers 1) Do you know what summer the movie “Dirty Dancing” took place? 2) Which musical group sang the one-hit wonder “Brandy”? 3) Who won the 1963 National League Rookie of the Year Award? If you live or work in Hudson County, you may be asked one of those questions at a trivia contest near …

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“Chum,” the new novel by Jersey City native and current Hoboken resident Jeff Somers, is in many ways just another step in what the author described last week as “a mobius strip of a career.” Written a little over a decade ago but never published, the dark comedy about relationships between a group of friends …

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