Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
JERSEY CITY — Two Radio Shack stores in Jersey City and one in Union City are among the 50 stores that will close in New Jersey as a result of the company filing bankruptcy last week. Nationwide, the company is expected to sell as many as 2,400 stores. The Jersey City stores at 353 Central …
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All members of the Hoboken community are invited to attend Mayor Dawn Zimmer’s fifth State of the City address. The event will take place on Tuesday, Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. at the DeBaun Auditorium in Edwin A. Stevens Hall on the campus of Stevens Institute of Technology. Seating is open to the public and …
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JERSEY CITY — To make up for the two-week closing of the main branch of the Jersey City Free Public Library until Feb. 21 for renovations, the closure, the library’s bookmobile will be stationed in front of the building at 472 Jersey Ave. to provide services to Downtown residents. There bookmobile will be there Monday, …
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NORTH BERGEN – The township of North Bergen will present a free citizenship and deferred action information session on Tuesday, Feb. 10 in partnership with Hudson County and nonprofit group We Are One New Jersey. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the citizenship process and to hear information about the Deferred Action program, …
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JERSEY CITY – A black Honda Civic struck a school bus carrying about a dozen kids near Culver and Mallory avenues on Feb. 6 at about 3:30 p.m. None were injured, according to a spokesperson for the police, but all were taken to Jersey City Medical Center.
HUDSON COUNTY — Due to icy conditions and a little snow on Monday, some local school districts announced delayed openings or early dismissals. Jersey City schools announced a 90-minute delay. Union City and Bayonne will have early closings. See the districts’ websites for more information. Other schools may close early later, so check their websites. …
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Recently a USA Today article http://www.usatoday.com * noted: “Nancy Pippenger and Marcia Perez live thousands of miles apart but have the same complaint: Doctors who treated them last year won’t take their insurance now, even though they haven’t changed insurers. “They said, ‘We take the old plan, but not the new one,’ ” says Perez, …
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A mass of Christian burial was celebrated Feb. 4 at St. Francis RC Church, Hoboken, for Geraldine Andreano, 79. She passed away Jan. 30, surrounded by her family, at the Harborage Nursing Home Hospice Center. Born in Jersey City, Geraldine was a Hoboken-ite, where she lived most of her life. A housewife and mother, Geri …
A funeral mass was offered Feb. 2 at St. Nicholas Church for Andrew Cannizzaro, 79. He passed away Jan. 29. Andrew was born in Baucina, Sicily, Italy, and lived in Jersey City for most of his life. He was a skilled baker and retired from Victory Baking Company, Jersey City. He was the husband of …
Funeral services were held Jan. 31 for Joseph DeAntonio, 66, of Secaucus, formerly a lifelong Jersey City resident. He passed away Jan. 26. He was the brother of John Libitz and the late Frank, Marie, Michael and Carol Ann DeAntonio. Services arranged by the Riotto Funeral Home and Cremation Company, Jersey City.