Four Agencies Avoid Cuts The Human Rights, Ellis Island, and Tourism commissions and the Municipal Drug & Alcohol Abuse Alliance avoided the axe after a frustrated member urged the City Council to reconsider. All four...
New Nets Owner Poised To Make A Splash Mikail Prokorov is already famous. The spotlight tends to find you when you are the 39th richest man in the world. After a lifetime of financial success in Moscow, the Russian billionare has been...
Council Seeks To Save ‘Second Chances’ Program The “Second Chances” program that gives ex-convicts minimum-wage jobs doing litter patrol was eliminated in budget cuts, but former employees showed up to the May 12 City Council meeting asking for...
Police, Firefighters Get 2.75 Percent Raises Avoiding expensive arbitration, the City Council voted 7-1 to approve contracts for the police, firefighters and fire officers unions. The 2009-2012 contracts call for 2.75 percent annual raises. A...
City Council Hires New Business Administrator The City Council voted 7-1 to hire a new business administrator John “Jack” Kelly at the May 12 meeting, despite residents’ objections, citing a 1998 investigation and concerns that he would keep p...
Former Jersey High School Star Forces Associate Press Mess Brian Cushing has made his presence felt at every stop of his football career. In 2004, he led Bergen Catholic to a Group IV State Championship over Don Bosco Prep. He became an All-American at U...
Ice Skating Rink to be Named After Capitals’ President For 30 years, Charlie Heger has been Jersey City’s hockey king of sorts. The president of Jersey City Capitals youth hockey was honored with naming rights to Pershing Field’s ice skating rink. On A...
City Backs $8M Tramz Hotel Group Loan Tramz Hotel Group got the nod to build a Conrad Hilton Hotel on Marin Boulevard, with the city’s backing of an $8 million federal loan. The City Council voted 5-3 on April 29 to guarantee the Sect...
The New England Patriots have become one of the premier organizations in the NFL by putting a strong emphasis on the annual April draft. Now, their scouting strategy may begin to center itself on p...
The 2009 NFL Draft was a historic day for football in the state of New Jersey. Seven players selected in the first round had either played collegiately, on the high school level, or originally been...
The City Council voted 5-4 against a League of Municipalities push for the state to draft a law establishing fees for students to pay for city police and fire services. Councilman Michael Sot...
The City Council voted down police and firefighters’ contracts in a heated April 14 meeting. The contracts called for raises as follows: 3 percent retroactive for 2009, 3.3 percent in 2010, 3....
The brand new Meadowlands Stadium in East Rutherford officially opened its doors last week to host the Big City Lacrosse Classic. After years of planning and construction, fans no longer only have ...
A Union Avenue woman came home just a half-hour after a couple’s slaying on Easter morning behind her residence and a short walk from the Garfield Avenue Light Rail—an area where residents are ofte...
High school sports in New Jersey are annually competitive and exciting. From football to wrestling to basketball, the quality of competition is outstanding from season to season. As fans embark on ...
Todd Frazier has been the best player at every level he ever competed at during his baseball life. New Jersey natives will always remember his performance as the star of the 1998 Toms River Little ...