Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
UC kids play music in NYC The Union City Music Project (UCMP) announced that its young musicians have been invited to perform in a concert for the 2013 Fashion District Art Festival at the New York/New Jersey Port Authority Bus Terminal’s North Building at 4 p.m. on Oct. 24. The UCMP is a bilingual educational …
Students at West New York School No. 3 didn’t need a lot encouragement to start knitting once they found out the project would help educate new mothers about the dangers of shaking infants too hard. “Once they started, they motivated me,” said Nikki Casey, a social worker who helped organize the knitting effort that resulted …
Continue reading “Purple power
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Albio Sires has come full circle. Raised in West New York as the son of immigrants who fled Cuba in 1962, learning the language and culture as he attended Public School 4, he has, through hard work and persistence, achieved the rank of United States congressman. And on Friday, Oct. 4, the town of West …
Continue reading “School renamed for Albio Sires
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Every football fan has had that feeling. Your favorite team is behind a couple touchdowns. The clock is running out and every little point, even a field goal, matters. Your team has good field position. The kicker goes to kick and… he misses. That’s when you think, “Oh, good Lord, how hard can it be?!!” …
Continue reading “Going for the Gridiron Glory
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For 10-year-old Darius Kaleb, every day is a song and a dance – literally. That’s because the Secaucus resident goes into New York City several times a week to do something few children his age can do: perform in a Broadway musical. Not only that, Darius plays the Prince of Pop, Michael Jackson, in the …
Continue reading “‘Little Thriller’
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No dice on West New York recall Despite a concerted effort to collect signatures to recall Mayor Roque and the other commissioners loyal to the mayor, West New York Commissioner Count Wiley has come up short with the city clerk, invalidating more than 40 percent of the more than 6,500 submitted. Pablo Fonseca, spokesperson for …
The bell rings at the end of the day and most second graders look forward to a run outside, some video games, maybe a little TV. But for twin sisters Kiara and Kaylee Dominguez of Union City, you can add another after-school activity: intensive judo training with a teacher once profiled in Sports Illustrated. Just …
Continue reading “Junior judo stars
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When the jury announced in federal court on Tuesday that they had reached a decision, West New York Mayor Felix Roque sat up. A number of things ran through his mind. Yes, he was scared. He had been put through the worst experience imaginable, nearly two years of waiting for justice, living with accusations he …
Continue reading “Roque and Munoz speak out about verdict
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Like many Baby Boomers with college-age and young adult kids, Michael Rushman and his business partner Don Dillon had been through the parental ritual of moving their children from one cramped studio apartment to another, repeatedly buying the same Ikea furniture again and again, when an idea came to them. “The housing needs of the …
Continue reading “Tiny apartments
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No dice on West New York recall Despite a concerted effort to collect signatures to recall Mayor Roque and the other commissioners loyal to the mayor, West New York Commissioner Count Wiley has come up short with the city clerk, invalidating more than 40 percent of the more than 6,500 submitted. Pablo Fonseca, spokesperson for …