Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Up until a year ago, Hienne Chemas and Monica Perez had no idea that they would someday set a precedent in their town’s police department. According to the young women, their families had encouraged them to pursue less dangerous career paths, but the newly-appointed police officers marched to the beat of their own drum. Both …
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Ruth Mory has spent five tumultuous months without her husband. A survivor of breast cancer nearly for five years, she had previously relied on the support of her husband and family to help her through the crisis. However, in September of 1999, the Immigration and Naturalization Service in Newark arrested her husband Moises on the …
Union City’s deputy director of public affairs, Milagros “Millie” Villareal, surrendered to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office in Jersey City on Feb. 16 after prosecutors informed her attorney that she was being charged with bribery and official misconduct. According to First Assistant County Prosecutor Terrence Hull, Villareal had been under investigation for nearly a year …
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The Hudson Reporter newspapers won nine awards in a statewide competition for weekly newspapers, the New Jersey Press Association announced last weekend. The contest drew entries from scores of weekly newspapers from around the state. The NJPA’s annual “Better Newspaper” competition includes categories for news writing, feature writing, column writing, and layout. The Reporter newspapers …
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After a whole day of snow and freezing rain on Friday, Feb. 18, Secaucus suffered numerous accidents throughout the town, including a head-on collision between a U.S. Postal Service truck and two oncoming cars. Accidents and other calls were so frequent, the police radio rasped with repeated requests for officers, while police headquarters responded: “We …
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Mike Mongiello, now 30, played baseball for a long as he can remember, pitching and hitting as a member of the Secaucus Little League right up through high school, where he acquired a reputation of one of the great athletes to graduate from Secaucus High School in 1986. In the back of his head was …
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The Hudson Reporter newspapers won nine awards in a statewide competition for weekly newspapers, the New Jersey Press Association announced last weekend. The contest drew entries from scores of weekly newspapers from around the state. The NJPA’s annual “Better Newspaper” competition includes categories for news writing, feature writing, column writing, and layout. The Reporter newspapers …
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Saying that changes in plans for the interior of the proposed Secaucus Public Library would not delay the expected groundbreaking in May or June, library trustees reported on Feb.15 that they had met with the architects over various unresolved details Library Trustee President Mauro DeGennaro said that plans presented to the trustees in January needed …
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Saying that changes in plans for the interior of the proposed Secaucus Public Library would not delay the expected groundbreaking in May or June, library trustees reported on Feb.15 that they had met with the architects over various unresolved details Library Trustee President Mauro DeGennaro said that plans presented to the trustees in January needed …
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More than 400 new police officers have been hired by eight North Hudson cities since 1995 under federal law enforcement grants, but there is now a question as to what will happen to the forces – and the taxpayers – when a quarter of the grants run out. Some officials believe tax hikes or layoffs …
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