Category: North Bergen News

Taking a complex subject and making it easier to understand through a storybook is something North Bergen teacher Heather Ricco had a hunch would help her students and other children. As it turns out, her idea was right on, as she debuted her new book on math, “Estimation Mountain and the Valley of Tens,” on …

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If you ask township resident Alexander Diaz what being named a Rhodes Scholar means, he won’t talk about himself or his accomplishments. He’ll talk about what it means as a North Bergen resident, minority, and Diaz family member. Receiving the greatest academic scholarship in the land isn’t changing the demeanor of the unassuming but confident …

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Reporter holiday ad deadlines, office closings Due to the Christmas holiday on Wednesday, Dec. 25, and New Year’s Day the following week, advertising and editorial deadlines for the Hudson Reporter newspapers have changed. For the Sunday, Dec. 29 editions of the North Bergen Reporter, Secaucus Reporter, Weehawken Reporter, Union City Reporter, West New York Reporter, …

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For 15-month-old Lucia Gereda, it was a chance to really have fun and enjoy the festivities. The toddler had been brought to the Winterfest celebration shortly after birth last year, only 16 weeks old, and parents Hector Gereda and Maria Garcias didn’t feel she was able to appreciate it. This year, there was a look …

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For Erasmo Jorge Gomez of North Bergen, his art is about many things. It’s about exploring a passion he has had since a child. It’s about expressing himself in a way that makes him feel free. It’s also about being at peace with himself. All of these things come out of the artwork he creates. …

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Libraries holding holiday celebrations Mayor Nicholas Sacco invites the public to the North Bergen Free Public Library’s annual Holiday Celebration at its main branch, 8411 Bergenline Ave., on Friday, Dec. 20, at 4 p.m. Library Director Sai Rao announced that the first holiday celebration at the library’s Kennedy Branch, 2123 Kennedy Blvd., will be held …

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Dozens of county residents gave their time and energy on Thanksgiving Eve and Day to make sure everyone who wanted a bountiful meal could get it on one of the most important of annual holidays. Whether it was at the PERC homeless shelter in Union City, or the Woodcliff church in North Bergen, anyone who …

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It started on a warm summer night on the bluffs of Guttenberg one year in the 1970s. An 8-year-old boy was sitting outside his father’s restaurant, viewing the dusk sky. But there were more than just shimmering stars above. There were these fleeting glances of dark, nocturnal figures racing across the sky. There were … …

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