Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
News 12’s ‘Kane in Your Corner’ airs segment about WNY vendor’s bills Joe Villanella, who owns a graphics business in New York, says he has done printing work for the town of West New York since July of 2011 and that the town owed him around $6,700 that he was unable to collect – until …
Just over a month after a group of West New York residents successfully fought a proposed high-rise development near 57th Street, a group is fighting a different proposed high rise – this one on Boulevard East. On Feb. 23, residents attended a Zoning Board meeting at West New York’s Town Hall to protest the proposed …
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Diabetes – the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. as of 2011 – can lead to kidney failure, amputation, blindness, heart disease, and stroke. Overweight and obese women are two to four times more likely to develop gestational diabetes than normal-weight women, and Hispanic women are two to four times more likely than …
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“Putting on a passion play is sort of like being in the kitchen with your wife and your mother,” Artistic Director Carl Gonzalez said during a rehearsal of the annual Passion Play at Union City’s Park Performing Arts Center (PPAC) last week. “You can’t fully please either one.” To bring a biblical tale that is …
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Heated debate has ensued in the last few weeks about pending legislation to inject fluoride into New Jersey’s water. The legislation has passed through both legislative health committees and will soon move to the Assembly floor for a vote. Sponsors of the bi-partisan legislation have said that adding fluoride to public water will reduce the …
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From the beginning, when he was charged in the federal government’s now infamous 2009 New Jersey political corruption sting, former Assemblyman Louis Manzo proclaimed his innocence. More to the point, he claimed that the sting was a political stunt to help get then-U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie elected governor. Two weeks ago, after more than two …
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UCPAC to host ‘Haunted;’ a show about love Mayor Brian P. Stack & Board of Commissioners proudly present “Haunted,” a show about love, unrequited love, and love on the way, featuring Marcus Simeone on vocals. Tracy Stark is both musical director and pianist. Tony Romano will play guitar, and MaryAnn McSweeney will play bass. “Haunted” …
A plot of land at the corner of 57th Street and Park Avenue in West New York will remain a parking lot for the time being, since a group of residents successfully fought a bid by a developer to construct a 22-story residential/commercial building there. After a two-year battle between the developer and neighbors of …
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If Scott Chillo’s 4-year-old daughter Leah hadn’t once again attempted to pilfer the change he left on their kitchen table, he may never have discovered a rare bit of Union City’s financial history. Chillo, a resident of Auburn, Mass., bought his wife Sara a bottle of wine in a store in Massachusetts earlier this month …
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The next time a minor wanders into a West New York liquor store hoping to buy alcohol, he may find himself face to face with an undercover police officer. So may any adult with the intention to buy liquor for anyone under the legal drinking age, for that matter. “Cops in Shops” is a federally …
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