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Southwest Park concept approved; December debut planned

HOBOKEN – The first stage of a planned Southwest Park could be ready for construction in July and completed by December, according to the landscape architecture firm contracted by Hoboken to produce a final design. Last September, Starr Whitehouse won a $358,000 city contract to design, engineer, and oversee construction for the park. On Wednesday, …

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High Tech student advances to 2015 Poetry Out Loud Region 6 Championship

NORTH BERGEN – High Tech High School student Aaleah Oliver, a resident of Secaucus, won the school-wide competition of the 2015 Poetry Out Loud competition at the North Hudson Center Campus, announced Dr. Joseph Giammarella, principal of High Tech High School. Oliver will now advance to the Region 6 Championship, which includes students from the …

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The Meadowlands Rocks!

MEADOWLANDS – New Jersey Meadowlands Commission (NJMC) staffer and veteran rock journalist/author Brian Aberback will present “Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Meadowlands and North Jersey” this coming Sunday, Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. The slideshow presentation covers everything and everyone from the Jersey City doo-wop scene, Frank Sinatra, and Connie Francis, to punk and new …

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County agencies lost more than $2 million in Hurricane Sandy aid

JERSEY CITY – Hudson County lost more than $2 million out of $4 million in Hurricane Sandy renter and home owner relief because agencies assigned with the task of finding people in need failed to reach out into the community, county officials said at the Jan. 20 Board of Freeholder caucus. The one noted exception, …

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State ruling on Hoboken’s HoLa charter school expansion expected in early February

HOBOKEN – The New Jersey Department of Education will deliver its final ruling “shortly after” Feb. 2 on whether the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) can expand to seventh and eighth grade, according to correspondence between the state and lawyers for HoLa and the Hoboken Board of Education. Following a controversial legal challenge filed …

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Weekend snow prediction increases; first big winter storm of 2015?

HUDSON COUNTY — Accuweather has increased the forecasted snow totals for this weekend, now saying the region could receive 3-6 inches of snow from Friday evening to Saturday morning. Some forecasters are claiming the New York area could get up to a foot. The prediction has apparently changed since a few hours ago, and could …

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Braddock Park improvements to launch at groundbreaking ceremony Friday at 12 noon

NORTH BERGEN – Mayor and State Sen. Nicholas Sacco, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise and Freeholder Anthony Vainieri will officially kick off the county’s $6 million James J. Braddock Hudson County Park Improvement Project with a groundbreaking ceremony on Friday, Jan. 23 at noon. The ceremony will be held in a field at the western …

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Planning Board tables controversial zoning measure until March

JERSEY CITY — The Jersey City Planning Board has put off until March a proposal that would require sellers of property to get inspected before completing a sale. At the Jan. 20 board meeting, Bob Cotter, director of the city’s planning department, called the proposal “a good idea,” but said the resolution sent to the …

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