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Jersey City has opened a new lane on the Information Superhighway. By passing an ordinance at Wednesday’s council meeting that will permit RCN Telecom to use public areas to string up fiber-optic cable wire, the municipal council opened the gates of the city to what is being called the future of telecommunications. In RCN, customers …
Continue reading “New cable operator will spice up competition”
After years of debate on how to revitalize the Martin Luther King Drive area, a new shopping center will soon lead the way, and its anchor tenant is slated to open this Monday. Dubbed the area’s first African-American full-service supermarket, CitiMarkets has been gearing up for its Feb. 1 grand opening. CitiMarkets officials said that …
Continue reading “Supermarket to launch MLK improvement effort”
Chalk one up in the win column for South Jersey. Hudson County, in the battle for the most decorated battleship in Naval history, was sunk last week when the U.S. Navy decided on the Camden waterfront as the final resting spot of the USS New Jersey. The Navy decided unanimously to dock the historic ship …
Continue reading “Bayonne dissed as battleship heads for Camden”
Let’s go Rams! Years of frustration culminate in Super Bowl appearance for die-hard fan It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Every year for the past eight years, since I’ve been at the Hudson Reporter, I’ve been asked by my good friend and avid Reporter reader, retired Jersey City Police Officer Jim Gallagher, to make a prediction on …
While the starting lineups were being announced during last Saturday’s HCIAA showdown between Dickinson and St. Peter’s Prep, Dickinson senior center Rashawn Wilson stood away from his teammates, staring, laughing and shaking his head at Prep’s junior center Brian Robinson. Earlier in the week, Wilson had declared in a newspaper article that Robinson was “big, …
Continue reading “After trash talk of blowouts and taunts, Marauders rout Dickinson”
Courtney Wicks is finally a healthy and happy 21-year-old young woman, playing college basketball at St. Peter’s College. Ever since she left high school, the simple idea of Wicks actually being healthy, happy and playing hoops at the same time really wasn’t so simple after all. Wicks’ tumultuous four-year basketball sojourn had taken her from …
Continue reading “Former All-State standout makes comeback with Peahens”
After 17 historic years as the first woman to ever serve on New Jersey’s highest court, lifelong Hudson County resident and State Supreme Court Justice Justice Garibaldi will officially retire Feb. 1. Garibaldi is still five years away from the mandatory retirement age of 70, but feels the time is right now. Recently, Garibaldi, a …
The more things change, the more they can stay the same in the nation’s public housing complexes – and it sometimes seems that Hoboken’s 1,353 units in the southwest corner of town are no different. Two weeks ago, residents crowded a Hoboken Housing Authority meeting to complain about a variety of conditions plaguing the federally-funded …
A dozen residents will say goodbye to their neighbors and their fig tree-filled garden when they move out of their long-time residence on Clinton Street March 1 to make way for the city’s bulldozers and engineers. In return for vacating the eight-unit apartment building, they will receive more than $17,000 per family, according to Cathy …
Snow may have delayed Tuesday’s zoning board meeting slated to determine the fate of a proposed 18-story “C”-shaped residential development at 1600 Park Ave., but it did not cool the feelings of the residents who oppose the project. The meeting has not yet been rescheduled, but even when it is, it will probably take longer …
Continue reading “Battle over 1600 Park proposal could take long”