Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: One of the important factors that has us excited about the current and future directions of the Hoboken Public Schools is our dynamic superintendent, Dr. Christine Johnson. With her at the helm we have already seen wonderful developments in the district, notably the ‘Passport to Learning’ aftercare program. But her ability to implement …
Continue reading “Support Forward Together for school board”
Less than one week before an election that could shift the balance of power on the Board of Education, an administrative law judge has denied a move to rescind last December’s contract renewal for Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marcia Lyles. The controversial four-year renewal came during a lame duck session prior to the seating of …
Continue reading “Lyles contract renewal upheld
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Dear Editor: My husband and I have lived in Hoboken for a few years. We were drawn to Hoboken because of its close proximity and easy access to New York City. We have found Hoboken to be a perfect medley of small town charm and metropolitan convenience. It is for those reasons and many others …
Continue reading “The Parents United vision will keep families in Hoboken”
Less than one week before an election that could shift the balance of power on the Board of Education, an administrative law judge has denied a move to rescind last December’s contract renewal for Superintendent of Schools Dr. Marcia Lyles. The controversial four-year renewal came during a lame duck session prior to the seating of …
Continue reading “Lyles contract renewal upheld
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Dear Editor: My husband and I have lived in Hoboken for a few years. We were drawn to Hoboken because of its close proximity and easy access to New York City. We have found Hoboken to be a perfect medley of small town charm and metropolitan convenience. It is for those reasons and many others …
Continue reading “The Parents United vision will keep families in Hoboken”
“I got a text from my fiancé telling me there was an emergency at the train station,” said Meika Roberson, chief medical officer at Hoboken University Medical Center, last week as she reflected on the events of Thursday, Sept. 29. That morning, reports hit the news that an accident with possible “mass casualties” had occurred …
Continue reading “Hoboken’s hospital reviews handling of train crash
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Jersey City residents will go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 8, to vote on a number of key races, include the election of a president, and contests for the House of Representatives, county sheriff, county register, school board members and the council member representing Ward B. The Board of Education election is the most …
Continue reading “Serious choices
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Dear Editor: After Hurricane Sandy, “resiliency” (policy changes intended to reduce the impacts of flooding) became central to all of Hoboken’s legislative decisions. Building code changes requiring the abandonment of the bottom residential floor of existing buildings if renovations and/or upgrades total more than 50 percent of the assessed value of the structure have become …
At the end of the recent Town Council meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 25, Board of Education candidate Tom Troyer asked council members about elevated levels of lead in the water at the district’s preschool (early learning center) on Mill Ridge Road. The mayor said the school would be sending letters to parents, and that signs …
Continue reading “Preschool found to have elevated lead levels
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Since the start of the school year, North Bergen High School students have been making crafts and cookies, writing letters to soldiers in Afghanistan and children with cancer in Palisades Medical Center. “We send out at least five dozens of cookies for each package,” says high school teacher Marlene Sapoff. The after-school group of at …
Continue reading “Cookies and kindness
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