Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
UCHS students bid farewell to beloved teacher Union City High School students and other community members said their final goodbyes this week to Jack O’Connor, a longtime Union City English and drama teacher who passed away recently. According to friends, after O’Connor didn’t meet family for dinner as scheduled last Friday night, they called police. …
A trial date was set for former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and one of his political associates last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the massive New Jersey corruption scandal that rocked the Garden State last July and led to the arrests of 46 public officials and religious leaders. In addition, another former …
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High-achieving Union City High School graduate and salutatorian Vivienne Meljen was at a coffee shop in Hoboken last December when she first received news that she had been accepted into the Ivy League school of her choice. She opened her acceptance letter, which was actually a video embedded within an email, in front of family …
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Richard Seidenberg of Weehawken dropped his food science major for art history at Rutgers University when he realized there was “too much science, not enough food.” Now, 15 years later, he’s working with coffee in an 1800s silk mill factory in Union City. Once part of the “embroidery capital of the world” – an area …
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UC residents invited to summer block party on Tuesday Union City will be holding a Neighborhood Concert & Block Party on July 20 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. on 39th Street between Park and Hudson avenues. There will be live music by “Rumba & Fuego,” clowns, show for kids, free hot dogs and soda, …
When a young Robert Van Zanten arrived as a student in the West New York School District in 1956 along with his family, who had emigrated from Holland, little did he know that the district would be the place he would build his life, meet his wife, and start a lifelong career. Now, he is …
Continue reading “Memories as a student and teacher
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As World Cup fever continues to run high across the, well… world, Hudson County residents have been getting their “kicks” by finding unique ways to support, watch, and promote their favorite teams. The U.S. and English teams are out, but other local favorites are still in. _____________ For updates on the 2010 FIFA World Cup, …
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Union City mourns 6-month-old girl killed in freak accident A Union City family was posing for a photo at the zoo in Central Park with their 6-month-old daughter Saturday when a tree branch suddenly fell on them, killing the girl instantly. The baby’s mother, Karla Del Gallo, 33, tried to get away from the falling …
North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue, the fire department that covers five North Hudson communities, has closed two of their 18 firehouses/companies, relocated two others, and made additional changes in the name of efficiency, officials announced Tuesday. No longer will they rotate the closing of various firehouses for certain hours in order to save money. …
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“This is a secret from me to you,” said valedictorian Beatriz Cuevas to her fellow graduates of the Memorial High School class of 2010 at their June 22 ceremony. “People who put themselves last receive more smiles than anyone else.” Cuevas told a story about a friend who thought you have to knock other people …
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