- Petersen’s Pension: Atlantic City Public Safety Director Christine Petersen owes the state about $105,000 in pension payments she was not entitled to receive, the state pension board ruled Monday. Petersen received the pension money when she retired from the Jersey City Police Department in 2010. – Corruption: In direct violation of a court order, [...]
A pair of Rutgers University entomologists have received a $100,000 grant to fight bedbug infestations in New Jersey’s low-income communities. The bulk of the Rutgers grant, which will stretch over a 19-month period, will go towards creating a bedbug educational outreach program in “at least 50″ low-income communities in New Jersey, including in Jersey City. [...]
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has levied a $860,000 fine against Newark-based TVF Pest Control for “misapplication of hazardous pesticides in residences to control bedbugs” during work done in Jersey City and other locations. The fine comes on the heels of a DEP investigation last summer that found TVF used chemicals not [...]
Editor’s Note: We’re co-publishing a graphic-novel style series the Jersey City Stringer is producing about dealing with bedbugs when she was eight months pregnant with her first child. This is the fifth installment — the first can be found here, the second here, the third here and the fourth here. Enjoy. So where was I? [...]
- Bedbugs: School officials are now saying they aren’t sure if School 23 has bedbugs — a different story than they gave last week. – Bus Driver Wins Arbitration Award: A New Jersey Transit bus driver from Jersey City who was arrested and suspended at work after a co-worker reported him making threatening comments won [...]
- JCPD: Four Jersey City police inspectors were promoted to deputy chiefs Friday, at a time when 82 police officers are set to be laid off and 12 supervisors demoted. – Bedbugs: Board of Education officials have confirmed another bedbug problem, at School 23 on Romaine Avenue. Officials say they cannot fully exterminate the building [...]
- Smith to Claim Entrapment: In a court filing Friday, an attorney for L. Harvey Smith notified a federal judge he will argue that a government informant’s dealings with Smith warrant an entrapment instruction to the jury in Smith’s upcoming trial. He will be the first to use that tactic at trial. – JCFD: Jersey [...]
- Hoboken Joins Opposition to Spectra: Hoboken has joined the fight against a proposed natural gas pipeline that would run through Jersey City to Manhattan, via an October 1 letter from mayor Dawn Zimmer to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Meanwhile, Spectra Energy has hired a research firm to conduct a phone survey in order [...]
- More Bedbugs in District Schools: After we reported last week that a bedbug had been found at PS 16, the Journal on Monday reported that bedbugs had been found at PS 22 on Van Horne Street. And now the Reporter says bedbugs have also been detected at PS 8 on Franklin Street. – More [...]
- More Bedbugs in District Schools: In addition to the bedbug found last week at Downtown school PS #16, bedbugs were also found at PS #22 near Lafayette Park. As the Journal reports, “administrators and parents have different understandings about the scope of the problem.” – Reaction to Fulop Announcement: Reacting to yesterday’s news that [...]
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