Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
After being diagnosed with a medical condition that threatens her life, a Union City woman was forced to spend two critical months searching for a doctor willing to help her. Peggy Albedhady, 47, learned she had a 6-millimeter brain aneurysm, an abnormal bulging of an artery in her brain, last November. She said that since …
After recently appearing on the MTV reality series “From G’s to Gents,” a once misdirected Union City man says he is now on his way to turning his life around. Steve Bula, 22, who used the stage name Prote‘Ge,’ said he was addicted to drugs and nearly homeless when he auditioned for the show last …
Continue reading “Losing the baggy pantsUC man says ‘From G’s to Gents’ changed his life”
When a local drug dealer mistook an undercover West New York police officer for a regionally known rapper, it smoothed over one of the first successful buys in a four-month investigation into drug crime in town. The dealer even asked Police Officer Karriem Shabazz when his next album was coming out. Shabazz said he played …
Continue reading “Undercover cop tells allWNY rookie helped elite unit arrest drug dealers”
Union City is planning to transform a historic building at 420 15th St. that used to house a branch of the library into a three-story senior center, art gallery, historical museum, and community meeting space. At the regularly scheduled Board of Commissioners meeting on Tuesday, officials discussed their plans and voted for roof repairs to …
Almost 30 percent of the Latino population of the United States has tuned in, at some point or another, to “El Handyman En Su Casa” (The Handyman in Your Home), according to marketing company World Hispanic Omnitel. But the handyman himself, North Bergen resident Ino Gomez, chalks his popularity up to luck. “The only difference …
Union City’s new luxury condominium building, the Altessa, will be ready for residents in the next few months. Home buyers will be able to check out model homes on the top floor by the end of the month, and sales have already started, according to Joseph DiMare, the director of sales for the project and …
Continue reading “Almost readyRocha Development finishes up luxury condos in UC”
The last time Anthony Aceola had a home was 1987. The longtime Jersey City resident used to live in a two-family house owned by his grandmother. “She used to own two houses in downtown Jersey City,” Aceola said. “We all lived in one house. The other one she rented.” Then, in the ‘80s, his grandmother …
Continue reading “Hudson County counts homelessAdvocates conduct annual census”
The Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders has honored High Tech and County Prep High School for achieving outstanding evaluations in the annual U.S. News and World Report ranking. High Tech High School received a Silver Medal for the second year in a row, placing it in or near the top five percent in the …
Hudson Reporter Circulation Coordinator Luis Vasquez is a guy who rarely says no. “That’s how willing and able he is,” said his boss, Circulation Director Roberto Lopez, last week. “I’ve said to him, ‘You can say ‘no’ to some things.’ ” Vasquez, who is on the front lines of circulation for the Reporter chain’s more …
Continue reading “Spreading the newsLuis Vasquez is HR’s first ‘Employee of Month’”
In honor of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and life’s work, Union City officials held a commemoration ceremony at City Hall a week ago Friday. “I think we have come very far as a people in this country when it comes to discrimination, when it comes to working together as one, whether …
Continue reading “Past and presentUC remembers King, discusses Obama”