Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Dr. Norquist: How can you tell if someone is showings signs of an abusive nature? It seems every relationship I have been in turns out to be abusive. I was lucky to get out of my first marriage with my life (really). All of the men I have dated since then turned out to …
Dear Editor: The Secaucus Board of Education is considering moving the board elections from April to November. By moving the election to November, the board avoids a vote on the school budget as long as the proposed increase falls under the two percent cap. Thus, the citizens of the town lose their right to question …
The news that hit Samantha Hines in November of 2013 was perhaps worse than hearing about any possible injury or illness. Hines, the standout Ferris High School basketball player, was told she could not play for her entire junior year because of her academic status. “I was hurt and really upset,” Hines said. “I couldn’t …
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Dear Editor: Air pollution has been a huge problem in New Jersey for over a great number of decades. All the residents living in New Jersey are still being exposed to all these pollutants regardless the effort to reduce this bad air quality. I was reading on the internet on how many business and people …
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HUDSON COUNTY — The first significant snow of 2015 settled over Hudson County, New Jersey in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Jan. 24. However, then the rain washed it out of the streets by morning. Here’s a photo of Washington Street in Hoboken at 2:40 a.m. Accweather predicted “a bit” of snow and a …
WEST NEW YORK – Opponents of a controversial 13-story building proposed for Boulevard East finally got their say in a stormy public session before the West New York Zoning Board of Adjustment on Jan. 22. The project, called Meridia Le Boulevard, requires 20 significant use variances from the city for height, residential density and other …
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THE REGION – A northeast winter storm bringing snow, ice and rain is expected to hit the New York-New Jersey region beginning early Saturday morning. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will deploy extra staff and has assembled snow equipment to handle what forecasters say could result in hazardous travel conditions at …
BAYONNE – City officials and a Federal Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman confirmed that a Bayonne police officer was arrested in the morning on Friday, Jan. 23 in connection with an alleged civil rights violation. According to FBI spokeswoman Doreen Holder of the bureau’s Newark field office, Domenico Lillo was the officer taken into custody. At …
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JERSEY CITY – Kathleen Peet, 37, of Rochelle Park (formerly Kathleen Sarmiento), the former production manager for the Music, Dance and Theater Department at New Jersey City University, was sentenced on Jan. 23 by Judge Mitzi Galis-Menendez in Hudson County Superior Court to three years in prison for embezzling $87,587 in box office receipts from …
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HOBOKEN – Daniel Bryan, the chief of staff to Mayor Dawn Zimmer, will resign to pursue a new position as a senior member of the public affairs team at Beckerman Public Relations in Hackensack. After serving on Zimmer’s mayoral election campaign in 2009, Bryan was hired as her confidential aide, and later became her chief …
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