Hudson Reporter Archive

When Mayor Dennis Elwell visited Panasonic’s Headquarters on Meadowlands Parkway earlier this month, the first thing he did was apologize. Apparently, the company had made several telephone calls to Town Hall complaining about large pot holes that had developed in the tarmac, risking damage to the vehicles of the hundreds of employees that come and …

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Gene Mancino Jr. has lasting, vivid memories about being with his late father, Gene Sr., who was a football legend at Memorial High School in the 1940s. The elder Mancino, one half of the famed “Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside” with Eddie Lombardi, participated in some of the greatest high school football games ever played …

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North Bergen High School junior Sam Sanker is a walking fountain of knowledge. After all, a year ago he was a contestant on the game show Jeopardy!” and made it to the national semifinals in the teen competition. He won $5,000, a new personal computer and a host of other prizes. So there was little …

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Guttenberg Mayor Robert Sabello received a $63,000 check from developer K. Hovnanian in a ceremony at Town Hall Thursday night, to purchase new and upgraded radios for the police department. In turn, Sabello and the Township Council presented an official proclamation honoring K. Hovnanian’s Bulls Ferry complex for its recent award from the National Association …

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Maurice Blaudino was frustrated and angry last Tuesday morning. After trudging through the snow to get to a doctor’s appointment, the North Bergen resident arrived at the office to find out that the appointment had been cancelled without his knowledge. “The doctor didn’t even bother to show up,” Blaudino said. “I really wasn’t happy.” To …

Continue reading “Man plucks two kids from Braddock Lake”

When North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco was appointed as an assistant superintendent of schools earlier this year, one of the first items he wanted to address was the overall performance of the township’s high school students in the Scholastic Aptitude Test. “We identified that our overall average in the SAT tests needed improvement,” Sacco said. …

Continue reading “Pilot program instituted in North Bergen HS”

The temperature was 40 degrees, cold enough for normal people to bundle up in a coat and a few sweaters. But on a recent Saturday night, as on most Saturday nights during the winter, throngs of women traipsed from Hoboken bar to Hoboken bar coatless, shivering and bent over, their arms crossed in front of …

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Thanks to the recent bout of wicked winter weather, illustrious anchorpeople can finally flaunt their alliterative acumen by saying things like, “Wicked winter weather on the way.” The calamitous cold also offers normal people the opportunity to sport their latest winter accessories, specifically, hats. According to local merchants, this winter anything goes. So when the …

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