Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: I just wanted to recognize a gentleman from Union City, NJ who again has done a wonderful job assembling the Cuban American/Latin American Festival which came to be on June 2, 2013 with a dinner dance at La Reggia in Secaucus, on May 31, 2013. This magnificent Festival brings together many people and …
Dear Editor: Recently the Jersey Journal published the names of those property owners in Union City who owe money on their property taxes along with their sewage fees. Imagine my horror and disgust when I realized that among those who are in arrears on their taxes are a current Union City commissioner, an individual who …
Dear Editor: I notice that the pretentious potentates trying to take our guns away are now trying to destroy our 2nd amendment gun rights, and turn us into victims of criminals, by destroying our U.S. Constitution by organizing a U.S. Constitutional Convention, also known Con-Con, among our states. So, the subversive elements who hate our …
Dear Editor: It’s hard to believe how quickly time has gone by since Superstorm Sandy devastated many of our New Jersey communities, damaging homes and businesses and wreaking widespread havoc on the lives of Garden State families in its path. In the wake of Sandy’s destruction, we also saw the character of our New Jersey …
Continue reading “Help for Sandy’s emotional impact is available”
Dear Editor: His music lives on…through radio, TV, records and films. His fans are legion and include the likes of Harry Prime, Peggy King, Diana Krall, Michael Buble among a host of superb vocalists. Frank Sinatra left us on May 14, 1998 but we feel he is still very much with us and every now …
Dear Editor: On Thursday, May 9, 2013, the Superior Court of New Jersey, Hudson Vicinage, in partnership with the State Bar Association and Foundation, the Hudson County Bar Association and Foundation, and the Hudson County Advisory Committee on Minority Concerns will be hosting the 5th Annual Court Night at the Brennan Courthouse, 583 Newark Avenue, …
Dear Editor: April is Autism Awareness Month. The lifelong developmental disorder, once rare, now affects 1 in 49 New Jersey children and their families. And as the rate of autism has grown, the effects of autism have rippled out, reaching into schools, churches and synagogues, supermarkets, movie theaters, restaurants, fire departments and first aid squads, …
Continue reading “For those with autism, the community is the classroom”
Dear Editor: I am not sure everyone realizes that the state of New Jersey has a senior freeze program for property tax relief for owners who are 65 or over and live in their homes. To qualify, your income must be under a state determined maximum. The way the program works, once you establish a …
Dear Editor: The recent Union City Reporter article “Washington Park to get $6.5 M makeover” contains a heaping pile of gobbledy-gook buzzwords that make no sense. And that pile is from the engineer of the $6.5 million project. Phrases like “civil aspects—passive and active components amenities for football and soccer.” say absolutely nothing informative about …
Dear Editor: Having viewed the video of the Union City Board of Education Commissioners meeting on April 8th on Hudson County TV, well, the verdict is in and despite the past feeble comments of the current Union City Mayor we long suffering tax payers are facing the reality of being hit with still another increase …