Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
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 …
Local tenant activists have taken a fight that they lost in the City Council chambers two weeks ago to the streets. Just days after the City Council passed legislation to decontrol a portion of the city’s more than 3,000 rent-controlled apartments, dozens of activists have begun to collect signatures to stop the controversial law from …
A long-standing legal dispute between the Hoboken Housing Authority and one of its former directors was “99 percent” settled in the Authority’s favor a week ago Friday, according to the HHA’s attorney. After almost three years of legal wrangling, the Housing Authority appears to have been vindicated in the way that it handled the termination …
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Hoboken 4th Ward Councilman Ruben Ramos Jr. was one of four panelists who convened recently at St. Peter’s Prep High School to talk about racial diversity. Panelists said they believed racism and racial divisions were still major problems plaguing society. Dhaval Patel, president of the Multicultural Club at the private high school, opened the 2000 …
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After Elizabeth Batton won the Metropolitan Opera’s National Council Auditions last Sunday, she did not choose to board a plane for Disney World. Instead, her next destination was Hoboken. The New York City native will put her full mezzo soprano voice to work for the Lyric Theater Opera Saturday night, March 18, at 8 p.m. …
Continue reading “Hitting the high notes; Metropolitan Opera singer coming to Stevens Saturday”
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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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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Dear Dr. Norquist: My husband works in another state and is away almost all the time. His company is 400 miles away or about a one-hour flight.Dear Dr. Norquist: My husband works in another state and is away almost all the time. His company is 400 miles away or about a one-hour flight. Last fall …
Peahens, Granelli truly dancing to Big Dance St. Peter’s earns third NCAA trip in four years with MAAC tourney title It’s become a rite of spring, like the temperature rising, baseball players heading to Florida and St. Patrick’s Day parades. St. Peter’s College’s women’s basketball team, affectionately known as the Peahens, makes plans to go …
Prep’s Grzelka, a virtual wrestling newcomer, wins Region 4 title Usually, the sport of wrestling takes years to learn and even longer to fine-tune and master. The general introduction to the sport is very humbling – countless hours looking up at the ceiling on your back more than inflicting pain on the opponents. Last year, …