100 Jersey City Residences Evacuated Due to Leaking Natural Gas Pipe: Roughly 100 Jersey City residences were evacuated yesterday due to a leaking natural gas pipe along Pacific Avenue near Ash Street, officials said yesterday. Look for more from JCI this morning. Bail Set at $500K for Man Accused of Killing 2 People in Fiery [...]
Three Jersey City Organizations Receive $80,000 in Grants: Jersey City’s Art House Productions, Liberty Science Center and the New Jersey Health Literacy Coalition received a total of $80,000 in grants from the Horizon Foundation of New Jersey for their work in Hudson County, the foundation announced on Friday. Coach Pushes to Bring Intercollegiate Sports Back [...]
I had an all too familiar conversation on the phone just now with a good friend who owns and runs Basic Builders, a small family kitchen remodeling company. We were both lamenting that it’s Christmas, the time of year that we really need a little extra work and a little extra money, but all the [...]
Jersey City Tenth on List of Most Artistic Cities in US: Jersey City for the first time made the Atlantic’s list of top artistic cities in America, placing tenth. Jersey City Rallies Against School Vouchers: Some 50 people rallied yesterday at a Jersey City school against proposed state legislation that would use public money to [...]
Jersey City Rally for Jobs: Urging Congress to focus to putting people back to work, some 20 protesters held a “Jobs, Not Cuts” rally at the State Office Building in Jersey City yesterday afternoon. Look for more from JCI later today. Public Forum for Superintendent Search: The Jersey City Board of Education on Tuesday will [...]
Snowtober: A pre-Halloween nor’easter dumped three to five inches on Hudson County over the weekend, left upwards of 7,500 residents without power, and kept the phone lines at fire and police stations ringing off the hook with reports of downed trees and power lines. In a radio interview this morning, Gov. Chris Christie said that [...]
Embankment Decision: The Jersey City twittersphere was abuzz with news that the Zoning Board voted last night 5-0 to deny an application to demolish the historic 6th Street Embankment. Expect more from JCI later today. Off-Duty Jersey City Cops Subdue Airline Passenger: When a hysterical passenger aboard a Hawaii-bound flight made a dash for the [...]
WomenRising and Bergen Communities United (BCU) will celebrate the grand opening of the new BCU Job Bank & Resource Center tomorrow. The job bank is located on the ground floor of a new affordable-condo development at 169 Monticello Avenue, which was touted last year as “the first new construction on Monticello Avenue in decades.” The [...]
Local organizers affiliated with the progressive group MoveOn.org are expecting a big turnout tomorrow when they hold a rally against the debt-ceiling deal in Journal Square. “The agreement on raising the debt ceiling will make a bad situation even worse,” says Fr. Dave Stump of St. Peter’s College, a lead organizer of the rally. “It’s [...]
A handful of Jersey City groups and officials are holding a Holistic Job Fair today and tomorrow at the Mary McLeod Bethune Life Center to offer what they say is “a realistic approach to finding employment in the middle of a recession.” The event, which is organized by Pastor Earlin Thomas of Shield of Faith [...]
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