Share/Save Ed. note: This originally appeared as part of Mayor Jerramiah Healy’s participation in National Volunteer Week at the White House Dear Editor: As the second largest city in the state, Jersey City is known as Wall Street West for the hundreds of financial services corporations that are located here. Our city of 250,000 people [...]
Share/Save Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy spoke on a White House panel last Thursday to encourage volunteerism and civic involvement. The panel, called “Expanding Opportunity Through Volunteerism,” comes as part of a national effort to demonstrate that volunteerism can be a tool used to help the unemployed find work. “In Jersey City we have one [...]
Share/Save Dear Editor, Jersey City needs to back Downtown Councilman Steven Fulop for the Mayoral seat next year. Under the current Mayor Healy administration, many issues continue to arise on a daily basis. Ongoing issues include high taxes, high crime, failing public schools and reduction of our quality of life. Recently, the mayor has started [...]
A retired teacher who once served as Jersey City’s interim mayor, a financial analyst and an engineer, all of them moms backed by Ward E Councilman and 2013 mayoral candidate Steve Fulop, won the seats available in yesterday’s Board of Education election.
Share/SaveThe following is an open letter sent by a Jersey City resident and mom to the Statehouse. The 2 percent tax increase for the Board of Education budget was first reported here. Respected Governor Christie, Senators Stack and Cunningham, Mayor Healy, Jersey City Council Members and Board of Education president Waterman: I write to you [...]
The eight candidates vying for three seats on the Board of Education in the election tomorrow made one final push in advocating their positions before a mass audience Friday – including what they want in a new superintendent – during the Great School Board Debate at St. Paul’s Church near the Five Corners.
Share/Save Jersey City has been awarded one of three national Make A Difference Day awards for municipalities thanks to the city’s collaborative project known as the “BIG DIG” that saw 18,000 tulip and daffodil bulbs planted across the city last October. “We are extremely honored to receive this prestigious award and recognition,” Mayor Jerramiah Healy [...]
Share/SaveOver the course of five days and 600 miles, 25 Jersey City police officers will run from Journal Square to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in a charity effort that will benefit wounded soldiers and veterans. The ceremony is set to begin 10am sharp on Monday, April 16 at the Purple Heart Memorial in Journal Square [...]
Share/SaveCity Hall, which has been collecting donations for the 75 people who lost their homes and possessions in the Easter Sunday fire on Claremont Avenue, faces a small problem: there have been more donations of clothing than is needed. Instead, residents wishing to donate are asked to consider donating gift cards for the families to [...]
Jersey City’s eight board of education candidates engaged in a spirited and amicable discussion at PS 16 last week during the Historic Paulus Hook Association’s (HPHA’s) third annual election forum. The election is less than a week away on April 17.
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