Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Hudson County CASA needs volunteers Are you interested in helping children in the foster care system? If so, 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 insure that needed services and assistance are made available to children while …
Maya Iyengar has a special interest in The Lenox, the 300-unit Union City building where she lives with her elderly mother. She’s not only the current vice president of the Board of Directors, she grew up there. Today, her mother enjoys the color of the community garden, the seeds of which germinated after residents expressed …
Continue reading “UC high-rise residents meet at urban garden
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Sixteen candidates are running to fill four spots on the West New York Board of Education – and whom you vote for may reflect which politicians in town you support. Some candidates are allied with Mayor Felix Roque, while others are allied with town commissioners or critics of Roque’s leadership. Residents will go to the …
Continue reading “Who should represent the Board of Education?
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In 1993, actor Scott Schiaffo was 28, living with his mother in Garfield, N.J., earning a living at two or three retail jobs, and on-and-off binge drinking. He was also working with a Hoboken-based acting coach to try to land film and TV gigs. As actors did in the pre-internet days, he looked for audition …
Continue reading “20 years of ‘Clerks’!
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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the Shore? Riding a camel in the …
Continue reading “Reporter on Vacation
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As Rep. Albio Sires (D-8th Dist.) of West New York, a popular North Hudson political figure, seeks reelection to a seat he has held since 2006, he faces four other candidates. His opponents are Republican candidate Jude Anthony Tiscornia of Jersey City, Pablo Olivera of Newark, Herbert H. Shaw of North Bergen, and Robert Thorne …
Continue reading “Five candidates seek 8th District seat
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Seminar in WNY on abuse, domestic violence next weekend What constitutes sexual abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse? A seminar to increase awareness will be held Saturday, Nov. 8 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (doors open at 9 a.m.) at Gethsemane Baptist Church, 6019 Madison St., West New York. At the First Annual Abuse …
They’re out there. Creatures of the night. The dead. The undead. They’re hiding in the dark — and sometimes hiding in plain sight — to get you. Whether you’re on Boulevard East in Weehawken, 66th Street in West New York, or 48th Street in Union City, beware where you walk and where you stop, because, …
Continue reading “They’re out there
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When you think of runners out on their daily jog, maybe you think of trees in the park, birds chirping, and pretty ponds. It’s hard to imagine them cruising by telephone poles and possibly dodging parked cars… Being an avid runner and cyclist in Hudson County for the last six years, I can honestly say …
Continue reading “Running the ‘Concrete County’
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The cost for security cameras above and below the 14th Street Viaduct may be covered by a federal grant, according to the Hudson County Board of Freeholders. They voted at their Oct. 7 caucus to appropriate an additional $135,518, most of which will go to installing the cameras above and below the roadway connecting the …
Continue reading “Somebody’s watching you
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