Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Summer employment application period extended The West New York Division of Recreation has announced a three-week extension for applying to the 2016 Summer Employment Program until Friday, May 27. Applications are available in Commissioner Cosmo A. Cirillo`s office at Town Hall, 428 60th St., Suite 6, Monday through Friday from 9a.m. to 5 p.m. All …
Teachers and maintenance workers in West New York have been protesting at recent Board of Education meetings because they have been without a contract since July of 2015, and say they haven’t gotten a raise in more than four years. Several teachers attended the April 14 Board of Education meeting to demand a new contract …
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Jose Marti Freshman Academy in Union City will put on the comic murder-mystery play “Who’s Next?” on May 13 and 14 at 7 p.m. The cast of 12 students has been rehearsing after school since January. To avoid the expense of licensing an existing play, English teacher and director Randy Pradera wrote “Who’s Next?” himself. …
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Union City resident Mike Gomez, otherwise known as magician “Micky Magic,” used an old newspaper to hold water over preschool teacher Ms. Martias’s head. When he opened the newspaper, the water was gone, and not on her head. He closed the newspaper again and magically poured water back into the cup. Preschoolers and first graders …
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When animal control officers and other law enforcement personnel rescued more than 50 abandoned dogs and cats from the filthy residence of an alleged animal hoarder in North Bergen earlier this year, they were assisted by a bevy of volunteers from across the region. Among them was one person with unique skills who was charged …
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Anti-tax group criticizes Union City official’s two roles Stanley Sanger, who worked for 41 years in Union City as a teacher, school principal, and superintendent of schools and retired in 2014 with a $167,000 school pension, has been hired to serve as the executive director of the federally-funded Union City Housing Authority at a salary …
Fine and performing arts students from Union City High School will perform the musical Xanadu on Saturday April 16 at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. The shows are 90 minutes each, with no intermission. Xanadu is about an aspiring artist Sonny Malone, played by senior Bryan Cunat, living in Venice, Calif. who questions his ability …
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Going to a school prom can cost a teenager and parents more than $700 these days, with a dress, limo rental, hair styling, nails, new shoes, and a new purse or clutch. But 50 to 75 graduating seniors in from Union City High School, North Bergen High School, and Memorial High School in West New …
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A town official pleaded guilty last week to helping rig the selection process by which contractors competed to replace sidewalks and rehabilitate affordable housing in town. Washington Borgono, 65, an officer with a local government agency that received grant funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, pleaded guilty on April 5 by …
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A new county budget introduced on April 12 will probably increase the county tax portion of the property taxes paid by residents in Union City, Weehawken, Jersey City, and Hoboken. Explaining that cuts in aid and salary increases are to blame, County Executive Tom DeGise said last week that the $529 million county budget introduced …
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