Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
PERC fundraising ‘Dine to Donate’ night at Houlihan’s in Weehawken Support the Palisades Emergency Residence Corp. (PERC) on Tuesday, March 4. Dine at Houlihan’s between 5 p.m. and 9 p.m. that night and a portion of your bill will be donated to PERC. Diners must print out the PERC flyer and present it at the …
“This is one of the worst winters in a long time,” said John Shaw, superintendent of North Bergen’s Department of Public Works, last week. “What makes it really bad is the temperature. Because usually you get a normal storm, you get two to three inches, four inches, five inches. The next day you get 35, …
Continue reading “Uphill battle
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At a little before five a.m. on Jan. 23, four men pried open the sliding glass door of a private residence and took a family hostage on Newkirk Street in North Bergen. Demanding money and drugs, they tied up the five family members – including a 4-year-old boy – and beat the father with various …
Continue reading “Four men take entire North Bergen family hostage at 4 a.m.
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It was back on Sept. 18 that the Wall Street Journal wrote an article saying, “No one denies that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey triggered massive traffic jams when it shifted local toll lanes at the George Washington Bridge from New Jersey last week. But … police and elected officials in …
Continue reading “How Dawn Zimmer came forward
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Recently there was this little thing called the Super Bowl – maybe you’ve heard of it –with untold amounts of international attention focused on New York, despite the game actually being played in… where was it again? Oh yeah, New Jersey. Sometimes you just can’t get no respect. Well, if you’re looking for respect for …
Continue reading “Local mayor to magazine: Pig joke not amusing
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Palisades Medical Center announces schedule of upcoming maternity classes The following is a schedule of upcoming maternity classes at Palisades Medical Center. To register or for more information, call Robin Petrick at (201) 295-4823. Palisades Medical Center is located at 7600 River Road in North Bergen. Newborn Baby Care Classes – The class covers the …
“For many years the people of this city have been fighting a problem in North Hudson that is pervasive in our life,” said North Bergen Mayor and State Senator Nicholas Sacco. “And it was the omnibus situation.” He was speaking on Jan. 30 at a commemoration ceremony at North Bergen Township Hall for the newly-enacted …
Continue reading “‘Angelie’s Law’ will regulate jitneys
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Several weeks ago the Hudson Reporter ran an article about coyotes in Hudson County. Coyotes had been sighted in North Bergen, and the Housing Authority (NBHA) sent out a notice urging resident to “take extra measures of safety regarding children and pets being outdoors as coyotes do pose a threat.” Shortly after the article was …
Continue reading “Frank talk about coyotes
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“I never considered myself a poet,” said Kim Reardon. “I wrote one poem in the 1960s and never wrote poetry again. But I work in a school that embraces language arts, reading, and poetry every day.” That school is the Robert Fulton Annex in North Bergen, where Reardon is the school nurse. And now she …
Continue reading “Poetry found me
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A decade after he forced poet Amiri Baraka out as poet laureate of New Jersey, former Gov. Jim McGreevey mourned the poet’s passing. Baraka, who died on Jan. 9 at age 79, was seen as one of the last voices of the radical Black Power movement of the 1960s, and a man who retained his …
Continue reading “Adversaries no more
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