Category: West New York News

When Stanley Sanger took over as Union City’s superintendent of schools in July of 2003, he inherited one of the state’s worst performing districts. When he retired this summer, he left behind one of the highest-achieving school systems in New Jersey. Although he is quick to point out that the transition was the result of …

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Basketball and music kept Carlos Pina out of trouble when he was a kid growing up in the projects of Union City. He and his friends would rap in English and Spanish fusion, an art form that wasn’t known back then. Music was more of a hobby for Pina, who had his sights set on …

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When Stanley Sanger took over as Union City’s superintendent of schools in July of 2003, he inherited one of the state’s worst performing districts. When he retired this summer, he left behind one of the highest-achieving school systems in New Jersey. Although he is quick to point out that the transition was the result of …

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On Aug. 1, a 29-year-old North Bergen man saw a “beautiful blonde lady on a Boulevard East bus to New York.” He didn’t talk to her, and certainly didn’t get her contact information. His only hope was to post a message on the internet so that possibly she’d see it. “You looked amazing and caught …

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For honors students in high schools around Hudson County, summer vacation has been invaded this year by men named Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Aristotle – and even a woman named Ayn Rand. Freshman Honors English students at Union City High School said they have been assigned as much as 1,000 pages of reading for the summer._____________“I …

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