Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
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New Jersey has many kids in foster care, including several hundred in Hudson County. Parent Fahima Andersen of Jersey City is the mom to one of them – a 3-year-old boy. “There is little support for foster families [from the government],” Andersen said last week. “That’s why I joined the board of FAFSF [Foster and …
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HUDSON COUNTY – Want to know the results of the Board of Education elections in your town? Click on www.hudsonreporter.com tonight to see the updates! Highly contested races are being run in Hoboken, Secaucus, and Jersey City, and there are also elections in North Bergen, Weehawken, and Guttenberg. Besides candidates for seats on the board, …
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A young girl from Kansas once said, “There’s no place like home.” The students in Union City High School’s Fine and Performing Arts department are learning just how true that is. Students who once practiced in hallways and performed in the high school gym will be presenting their first annual spring musical, “The Wiz,” in …
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“It’s unreal what you’re getting for your money,” said new Union City resident Mike Tilleli last week as he looked out at the view from the community rooftop deck of his new condominium building. He stopped by to check out the progress on the building, which he hasn’t moved into yet. Tilleli, originally from Long …
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Check out our website for Stack/Scarafile forum Last week, The Hudson Reporter hosted its spring 2010 election forum for Union City. A video of the forum is now available at www.hudsonreporter.com. Residents can watch it and leave comments. Originally, the two men would have been in the same room, answering questions and then rebutting each …
On Monday, residents at the Hillside Terrace Apartments in Union City got a bit of a scare. Letters were slipped under their doors claiming that effective May 1, rents would be raised at the public housing building in order to “not terminate the jobs at the schools.” The letters, riddled with typos, were written in …
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Officials in Union City are putting out a call for residents interested in zoning and development to serve on a newly created Zoning Committee, which will help advise the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The Zoning Board votes on development projects that differ from the already instituted guidelines on height, density and other factors. The board …
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Two Union City residents murdered, dismembered Two people whose dismembered bodies were found in garbage bags in Linden on Monday were determined to be Union City residents. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed that the names of the victims are Lazaro Calero, 49, and Maria Torres, 48, and that Calero was renting a room in …
Rocco Salvemini used to watch the basketball junkies run all over the public courts on the west side of his native Hoboken, and when they missed a shot, he would laugh. Clank. Heh heh heh. He’s lucky he didn’t get socked courtside. Now 22, Salvemini lets out a giggle sometimes when he slides $42 parking …
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