Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I am writing to express my support for the installation of slot machines at racetracks in New Jersey. Clearly, slot machines have an appeal to those who frequent racetracks, as many bordering states generate revenue by way of gaming machines. New York, Pennsylvania and Delaware continue to utilize slot machines as a method …
Continue reading “Sen. Stack supports slot machines at racetracks”
Dear Editor: I would like to thank Ms. Joyce Fetterman for her compassion, patience, and endurance with our city’s very poor management of stray animals, whether they be sick, injured or not. Her story points out the serious problem Union City and the surrounding area has with strays and feral cats. I applaud her time …
Dear Editor: On a recent drive to our church in NYC, I drove by a church in my Union City neighborhood. My 5-year-old niece was in the car with me and called my attention St. John’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. “Sisa, is that a church?” I looked over and almost drove off the road. The front …
Dear Editor: We are three parents of children at Union City’s Woodrow Wilson School, a public school we cherish for its nationally recognized arts-focused curriculum and first-rate administration and staff. On November 19 we attempted to attend the public meeting of the Union City Board of Education to get an update on the recently begun …
Continue reading “Not the way to encourage active participation”
Dear Editor: As a young officer of Citibank, in the mid 1980s, I was sent to a week-long course, called “Managing People for Middle Managers.” (We called it Management Boot Camp!) It was a course for those on the “fast track” in Citibank; people the bank determined were going to be the next line of …
Continue reading “Dr. Roque will make a fine mayor for West New York”
Dear Editor: We are writing to thank the voters of the 33rd District for their support in our recent re-election to the New Jersey General Assembly. We have worked with diligence for the last two years to represent the interests of the residents who reside in the municipalities of Guttenberg, Hoboken, Jersey City, Union City, …
Continue reading “We look forward to helping the residents of the district”
Dear Editor: Because of the acute housing problems in our area, the Hoboken Public Library is sponsoring a Housing Fair on Wednesday, Nov. 18 at the library, located at 5th and Park Ave. Fifteen experts on housing will be at the fair to offer advice or answer questions regarding housing problems. They will be prepared …
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Dear Editor: I am writing to discuss an article that appeared in the November 1st edition of the Union City Reporter, entitled “Small school district, big problem”. I was dismayed to read how the statistics were presented but not fully explained. Such incidents are generated by reports made by school officials. While the incident rate …
Continue reading “Student safety is Union City’s top priority”
Dear Editor: I recently read your article “High Holidays” in the West New York Reporter (Sept. 20, 2009). I truly appreciate such an article, as my Dad, Rabbi Aaron Chomsky, of Blessed Memory, was, at one time, the Rabbi of this beautiful shul (synagogue). Having seen many shuls all over the world, I must tell …
Continue reading “Rabbi’s daughter appreciated ‘High Holidays’ story”
Dear Editor: The topic I want to discuss is this war in West New York, NJ with mayor Sal Vega and Dr. Felix Roque. I live in low income housing here in West New York, NJ. And it is not Mayor Sal Vega that the taxes are so high he should not be blamed. And …