Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Readers: Hi! I am a fourth grade student from Hillside Intermediate School in Bridgewater, New Jersey. Our class is studying geography and history of the United States. We would appreciate it if you would send us a postcard from our state. Please send to Hillside Intermediate School, 844 Brown Road, Bridgewater, N.J. 08807. Thank …
Dear Editor: In 1997, the New Jersey Coalition Against Aircraft Noise (NJCAAN), the Alliance of Municipalities Concerning Air Traffic (AMCAT), and the League for the Hard of Hearing initiated public discussion on airport noise as it affects’s health and learning. As a consequence, the Port Authority agreed this month to soundproof one local school. It …
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In a lecture that was peppered with profanities, young Dominican-American novelist Junot Diaz discussed literature and activism with a roomful of students at New Jersey City University on Tuesday, Feb 29. Diaz is the author of Drown, a critically-acclaimed 1996 collection of short stories set in both Santo Domingo, where the writer spent much of …
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A caravan of nearly 30 vehicles wended its way through Union City, Hoboken, and Jersey City Saturday to advocate permanently ending the U.S. Navy’s test-bombings on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Vieques, a tiny island with a population of 9,800, is located in the Caribbean off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. Ten months …
In the latest in a series of successes for the Newport section of Jersey City, Newport Office Center III opened last week at 499 Washington Blvd. and will now officially be known as the PaineWebber Building. Assorted public officials and development executives were on hand for the ceremonial ribbon cutting on a bright, sunny Tuesday …
At a special meeting called by the Jersey City municipal council last week, the council passed a $314 million spending plan for the 2000 fiscal year, almost nine months after the fiscal year began in July. At Monday’s meeting, the council voted 5-4 in favor of the document that the mayor’s office had turned over …
No signs on the street mark the entrance to the headquarters for the Urban League of Hudson County on Bergen Avenue in Jersey City. People in the neighborhood know where it is, pushing open its brown metal door for the long climb to the second floor. While many low-income people of all ethnicities and races …
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Passenger service is set to begin next month on the highly anticipated Hudson-Bergen Light Rail system. Ultimately, the 21.5-mile system will extend from Bayonne to Ridgewood, but now it only runs from Bayonne to Exchange Place in Jersey City. Last week, NJ Transit announced rates for passengers who will be traveling on the present route. …
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Investigators from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office were combing the treacherous steep cliffs of the Weehawken Palisades last week after the remains of two people were discovered only a few blocks from each other. The first body was spotted last Sunday when a rock climber, repelling his way down the cliffs, stumbled across the badly-decomposed …
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It’s been 14 months since the fire departments of North Bergen, Union City, West New York, Weehawken and Guttenberg decided to unite and form one regionalized department, North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue. The department was designed to save taxpayers money while maintaining and increasing the amount of service given in fighting fires in the …