Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Having taken a strong interest in what’s happening in my community (Weehawken) over the last 24 years of my residency, and being an active member of not only Friends of Weehawken Waterfront, but also the Weehawken Environment Committee and other civic organizations, it actually pains me to see what is now about to …
Continue reading “Developer, go back to your drawing board!”
It’s the end of another school day in December, 1984, but I don’t run for the buses with the other kids. I have to stay after school today to make up work, having been absent two days in a row due to the flu. I hate getting behind, but this time I have no choice. …
It’s the end of another school day in December, 1984, but I don’t run for the buses with the other kids. I have to stay after school today to make up work, having been absent two days in a row due to the flu. I hate getting behind, but this time I have no choice. …
Dear Editor: The senior citizens and myself participated in the Christmas card writing to soldiers who spent the holidays overseas. The following letter is one I received personally and would like to share with the rest who wrote out the cards. We intend to send care packages to them to try and brighten their days. …
Continue reading “Our soldiers in Kosovo would like to hear from you”
New Jersey City University (2039 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, 200-3246) is hosting an opening reception for “Sign Language,” a painting exhibit featuring the works of Weehawken resident Ben Goldman and Lennon Jno Baptiste from 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Lemmerman Gallery in Hepburn Hall, Room 323. The exhibit will be on display through April …
Dear Editor: On behalf of the children in our care here at Children’s Specialized Hospital and their families, I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you who made a donation of toys or money to our 1999 Holiday Toy Drive. With the donations that came in from over …
Continue reading “A very special holiday for very special children”
As film fans struggle to see every Oscar-nominated performance before March 26, I created a counter project: to identify the worst movie of 1999. Selecting the movie was the easy part. While 1999 provided some horrific films – The Haunting, The Astronaut’s Wife and Message in a Bottle, just to name a few – The …
Continue reading “The worst of the worst: And the award goes to …”
Dear Editor: New Jersey’s drinking water faces a new and serious threat from the fuel additive Methyl Tertiary Buthy Ether (MTBE). The state Department of Environmental Protection reports that 400 private wells and 65 public wells in New Jersey already have been contaminated with MTBE. And New Jersey is not alone. A study released by …
Continue reading “In protection of possible threat to water supply”
Who wouldn’t be happy if their job entailed singing such upbeat ditties as “I’ve got rhythm,” “Let’s Misbehave” and every other standard from the days when times were tough and people turned to music to uplift them? Christopher Howatt, a Weehawken resident who gets to sing those songs for a living, is as happy as …
Continue reading “‘S wonderful: Singing trio enjoys good times”
For Bob Leach, the art of telling tales didn’t die with the waterfront saloons, even though 60 years later, few people can recall the sawdust trails that used to mark the passage of men from bar to bar along River Street in Hoboken, or the culture of poetry that helped many a barroom bard get …
Continue reading “Following the sawdust trail: Storyteller recounts tales of saloon era in Hoboken”