Visionary Women
Hudson County held its annual awards ceremony for Women’s History Month to honor the achievements of county residents. They were honored at the Historic Brennan Courthouse in Jersey City on March 19.
This year’s theme...
Two Bayonne parks poised for facelifts
Two parks in Bayonne are in line for $1.5 million worth of improvements, courtesy of two Green Acres grants, administered by the NJ Department of Environmental Protection, and Bayonne officials who applied for the...
School board introduces budget 2.0
After much disagreement among trustees and the central office and a previous budget that passed by a thin margin of 5-4, the Bayonne Board of Education introduced an amended budget on March 19 and...
Emergency drill set for 8th Street light rail station on Saturday
The New Jersey Transit Police Department’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM), together with federal, state, county, and local partners, will conduct a training exercise on Saturday, March 30, at the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail 8th...
Sylvester or Tweety?
Feral cats and how to protect them has been a hot topic in Bayonne for years. When a feral cat colony popped up at the site of the former A&P in Bergen Point a...
Combating sewage overflow
Hudson County's sewage authorities are collaborating with towns on an initiative called “Clean Waterways, Healthy Neighborhoods.” The project is in the planning stages to reduce the amount of Combined Sewage Overflow (CSO) resulting from...
Bayonne Briefs
Motorist who caused death of five-year-old and father found guilty in court
A jury found Scott Hahn, of Hamilton Township, guilty on all six counts related to the crash that took the lives of Bayonne...
Bayonne school district adopts $146.1 million budget
Bayonne residents are facing another property tax rate increase of 1.99 percent over last year as the Bayonne Board of Education passed a proposed $146.1 million budget for the 2019-2020 school year that includes...
Another special improvement district on MOTBY
A new special improvement district (SID) is planned at Harbour Place on the former Military Ocean Terminal at Bayonne, where multiple large-scale real estate developments are currently under construction. The Bayonne City Council is...
New apartment building opens on 19 East 19th Street
A contemporary residential apartment building, called “19 East” after its address on 19 East 19th Street, officially opened on March 19 after two years of construction. The new building is one of many new...