A Player to Believe In The first time I had the privilege of watching De’Sean Butler play basketball is a moment I won’t soon forget. Unfortunately, neither will be my memory of the last time I saw him play. The first t...
Scarlet Duo Heading To Rutgers Shakena Richardson and Syessence Davis have taken the Neptune Scarlet Fliers to unprecedented heights during their time playing for Coach John Brown. They will soon be taking their talents to the ...
Montgomery Avenue Senior Building To Get Abatement, Renovations The 13-story Jones Hall senior apartment building at 591 Montgomery Street will get its first renovations since 1978 and a tax abatement extension for senior housing. But the 6.28 percent annual gr...
Toughness Now Defines Bynum Andrew Bynum probably never found the need to be tough. Seven footers in New Jersey prep basketball programs tend to get their points and rebounds with ease. The former St. Joseph High School supe...
Monmouth Park Business Booming Monmouth Race Track has long been a destination for true horse racing fans along the Jersey Shore and visitors from North and South Jersey during the summer months. It is on the verge of becoming ...
Former St. Rose Standout Nearing Draft Day Anthony Ranuado has the chance to do something that no baseball player from the state of New Jersey has ever done in the history of professional sports. When the Major League Baseball Amateur Draf...
JCFD Restructuring Eyed After Promotions The Jersey City Fire Department ( JCFD ) is “the most top heavy fire department in the country,” according to Councilman Steven Fulop. Fulop had a heated exchange with firefighters union president ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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 k...
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 USC...
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. ...
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 ...
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...