Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Hoboken’s residents have never been known to be a shy lot. So it came as a surprise when only one resident spoke at Wednesday night’s City Council hearing on the proposed $53.4 million 1999-2000 municipal spending plan. After the meeting, both supporters and critics of the mayor had differing views about why only one person …
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One reason that there may not be enough parking spaces in Jersey City is because, according to a national crime statistics report, fewer cars are being stolen. According to the 1999 Uniform Crime Report compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Jersey City auto thefts are on the decline. In the first six months of …
The wheels fell off of the Jersey City budget on Wednesday. When it was announced to the public that the State of New Jersey has refused to accept the city’s current spending plan, Council President Thomas DeGise added that an anticipated $16 million in state aid was also in jeopardy. Without that anticipated Distressed Cities …
When he was eight years old, Tommy Riggs was stricken with polio, and a transistor radio became his best companion. Riggs eventually went into the security business. His work took him to California, where one of his alarm system clients was a radio station. In his spare time, Riggs would visit the Santa Monica station …
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The municipal council will honor four Parking Enforcement employees this Wednesday for the brave actions they took during a fire last year. On Nov. 16, four members of the Jersey City Parking Authority raced into a burning building and helped evacuate nine families and almost 20 small children before the first fire trucks arrived at …
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The coldest air of the winter descended on Jersey City this past week, and many residents caught without proper heating systems felt the harshest chill of all. On Wednesday, the Department of Housing Code Enforcement was bombarded with over 100 calls in the morning from residents complaining about busted boilers and dangerously cold apartments. Icicles …
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Like a Martha Stewart holiday special and ice skating in Rockefeller Center, Manhattan department stores’ window displays create an atmosphere of holiday mirth and good cheer. But this year, Macy’s in midtown may have topped them all. On Jan. 1, 2000, Hoboken residents Greg Nahas and Tracy Crinion, winners of Macy’s “Wedding of the Millennium …
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St. Joseph’s to bring back football, After five-year hiatus, Blue Jay tradition will returnIn 1994, the administrators at St. Joseph of the Palisades High School made a decision that wasn’t popular. When the numbers on the football team dropped to 27, they decided to drop the sport. For a school with a rich and storied …
Haggenmiller taking one for the team, Academic sharpshooter scores 1,000th career pointWhen McNair Academic girls’ basketball coach Tom Ferriero first laid eyes on Tiffany Haggenmiller, when she was a freshman trying out for the Lady Cougars’ varsity, he didn’t think much of her. “She doesn’t fit the picture of what you perceive a shooting guard …
Before the 1999-2000 high school basketball season tipped off last month, St. Peter’s Prep head coach Joe Macchi didn’t know what to expect from his young team that featured only two seniors. “I think the biggest question I had with the team was chemistry,” said Macchi, who was entering his third year as the Marauders’ …
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