Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
CASA seeks community volunteers Are you interested in helping children in the foster care system? Hudson County CASA is currently recruiting volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. CASA works through trained community volunteers to ensure that needed services and assistance are made available to children while helping to move …
Residents from West New York’s luxury waterfront condos turned out for a Board of Commissioners meeting Wednesday night to petition for the return of what they said was a “quiet, peaceful community” before the arrival of an after-hours restaurant. The meeting was marked by hecklers and side remarks, highlighting notable divides between waterfront and interior …
Continue reading “Voices from the waterfront
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Four Hudson County high school mock trial teams squared off in a battle of legal wits earlier this month in the county’s Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse, arguing two sides of a mock civil trial. This year’s civil case was a hypothetical dispute between two distracted high school students: a pedestrian and the Corvette …
Continue reading “Kids in the courtroom
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The Park Players, a Hudson and Bergen County community theatre group, believe that there is an acting role for everyone, no matter what their age or experience. This month, their production of the musical “Godspell” will feature an entirely new cast, mostly amateurs in their mid-20s. Park Players Chairperson Joseph D. Fiorenza Conklin, who is …
Continue reading “Park Players feature new faces
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Will the next big TV reality show focus on two twentysomething guys from the suburbs dating and partying in Hoboken? Rumors throughout the media suggest that the sons of one of the stars of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” show – Albie and Chris Manzo, who now live in a pricy apartment on the …
Continue reading “‘Real Housewives of NJ’ kids take Hoboken
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Correction Due to a language translation error, in last week’s article, “Meet the candidates,” it was incorrectly stated that West New York mayoral candidate FiorD’Aliza Frias had referenced a potential shift in ethnic leadership during an interview with NECIO TV. This statement was never said or written by Frias or anyone else in her committee. …
By fifth grade, most students are just starting to write coherent compositions. Lacey Hickey is a whole different story. Last year, as a fifth grader at Millstone Elementary School, she co-authored a children’s book thanks to a writing contest started a few years ago by West New York author Jane Lovascio. Lovascio is the author …
Continue reading “Helping young authors
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Since the last Census, the Hispanic population of New Jersey has grown by 39.2 percent, making the 1.6 million Hispanics the second largest population group in the state, after Caucasians. One in five New Jerseyans is now Hispanic. Union City and West New York, which combined house over 6 percent of the state’s Hispanics, have …
Continue reading “Growing influence
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Long plagued by serious problems, Meadowview Hospital in Secaucus, which is the county’s psychiatric hospital, has finally received a long-sought after accreditation that shows it has fully recovered from decades of neglect and inefficiency. “This is something very significant,” said Carol Ann Wilson, director of Hudson County Health and Human Services, who was put in …
Continue reading “At long last
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Gov. Christopher Christie will this month decide the fate of a tax credit program for motion picture and television productions that film in New Jersey. Until the governor suspended this tax credit last year, several Hudson County-based productions, including “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” had benefited from the tax credit, which supporters say led …
Continue reading “Getting the film crews back to NJ
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