All parking enforcement will be suspended beginning at 7 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018 and will resume on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2018 at 7 a.m.
All enforcement will also be suspended beginning Saturday morning, Dec. 29 and resume on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
North Bergen residents overwhelmingly approved North Bergen’s school realignment plan. The referendum authorizes the district to move forward with the plan and receive the $26 Million in State School Construction Aid.
The referendum was approved 3,523 to 1,243.
North Bergen’s School Realignment Plan:
Purchase former High Tech High School building on Tonnelle Avenue to become North Bergen High School West Campus for grades 7-9, plus Culinary Arts and Expanded Career Technical Education for grades 9-12
Make renovations to NBHS West including new Auditorium Wing, new Turf Field and Student Walkway, new HVAC system and more
Current High School (NBHS East) to include grades 10-12 and new Business and Medical Arts programs and STEM Academy
Renovations to current NBHS East including Air Conditioning, Lighting Upgrades and Accessibility improvements
Smaller class sizes in all Elementary Schools
There’s a brand-new day care center in town for kids up to age 13. Located at 7424 4th Ave., First Steps to Success provides two floors of activities plus an enclosed backyard playground, with a skilled staff of educators offering pre-school and afterschool activities for children.
Mayor Nicholas Sacco and Commissioner Julio Marenco joined with the staff to cut the ribbon on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018 officially opening the facility and welcoming them to the neighborhood.
Owner Roxanna Robledo, a native of North Hudson, is a mom herself and spent six years doing extensive ground work before purchasing the building and turning it into a kid-friendly, safe, and inviting teaching site.
The focus is on providing a fun and engaging environment for kids to learn and grow. Younger children will learn the alphabet and spelling, social skills, and more, while older kids can get homework help and tutoring. The center offers a wealth of hands-on activities to build motor skills and help develop critical thinking.
The state-licensed facility employs certified teachers with backgrounds in first aid and CPR. Breakfast, healthy snacks, and home cooked meals are available. The center has a capacity of 40 kids.
For more information call 201-543-8243 or email rrobledo@fstslearning.com.
Celebrating North Bergen’s 25th annual Winterfest 2018!
Eva had a great time. Did you?
As the final stage in an extensive community improvement project to make North Bergen’s Broadway business district even more attractive and inviting to visitors, the township has made adjustments to street parking, adding 42 new spots to the area.
The additional spots were the result of switching from parallel parking to angled parking on the east side of Broadway between 72nd and 79th Streets. A portion of the funding for this project was provided by the State of New Jersey, and based on state requirements the spots are angled for rear-in parking rather than front-in parking.
Mayor Nicholas Sacco and Parking Authority Director Robert Baselice visited the area to review the changes on Nov. 28, 2018 joined by Freeholder Anthony Vainieri, Township Administrator Chris Pianese, DPW Superintendent John Shaw and Deputy Director Frank Englese, and other officials. They met with numerous local business owners, who were delighted with the new parking arrangement.
As part of the upgrade to the area, the township also repaved Broadway and made all the street corners handicap-compliant.
Broadway has gained a reputation as “restaurant row” in the recent past, with the opening of a number of excellent restaurants, joining the other fine dining establishments and local businesses already in the area, making it a terrific destination for shoppers and diners. Now it’s even easier to visit and take advantage of the many rewards that Broadway has to offer.
The North Bergen Police Department, in coordination with the Department of Public Works and the New Jersey and Hudson County Departments of Transportation, will be changing 79th and 80th Streets from two-way to one-way thoroughfares on Tuesday morning, Nov. 27, 2018.
In order to improve traffic flow, 79th Street will be one way eastbound from Tonnelle Avenue to Kennedy Boulevard, and 80th Street will be one way westbound from Kennedy Boulevard to Tonnelle Avenue.
In addition, as of this month, 81st Street is one-way westbound from Bergenline Avenue to 2nd Avenue.
These changes are being taken to address long standing issues regarding traffic congestion and parking in the area, and to increase safety for motorists and pedestrians. Representatives from the Police Department along with Freeholder Anthony Vainieri met with local residents on Nov. 20 to discuss the upcoming changes, explain the benefits of the new arrangement, and gather feedback.
Numerous street signs are being installed to notify drivers of the changes. The NBPD will monitor vehicular traffic flow throughout the holiday season and beyond to ensure the new patterns are better serving the area and the township.
Mayor Nicholas Sacco and the Township Commissioners invite all North Bergen residents to come out and celebrate the season at the gala 25th Annual Winterfest, taking place from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018.
As one of the biggest events of the year in the township, Winterfest offers entertainment for all ages, including rides, games, ice skating, a horse and buggy, food, music, giveaways, face painting, photos with Santa, and much, much more. All your favorite characters will be there, including Mickey and Minnie, Elsa and Olaf, Black Panther, The Grinch, Alvin, Dory, Elastigirl, and all their friends, so don’t miss out.
Festivities will take place on Bergenline Avenue between 76th and 85th Streets. The rain date is Nov. 30.
North Bergen Residential Parking enforcement is suspended overnight. Enforcement will resume on Friday, November 16, 2018 at 7 a.m.
High School students with a first period will start class at 10:00 A.M. Students who start after first period will start with third period at 10:35 A.M. There will be no periods 2nd and 9th period classes and all students will be dismissed according to their regular schedule.
A.M. classes will be canceled.
P.M. classes will begin at 12:30 P.M. and end at 3:00 P. M.
All A.M. Gifted and Talented Special Programs will be canceled on a delayed opening day. (Accelerated Math, PEAK, etc.)
All P.M. Gifted and Talented Programs will follow the regular schedule.
The bus schedule for our bus students will be as follows:
High School Students on the Kennedy Boulevard route will be picked up starting at 9:20 A.M. for all Period 1 students. All other students will be picked up at 10:00am.
Elementary Students – buses will pick up students one hour later than the regular time schedule. In other words, if your child takes the bus at 8:15 A.M. regularly, on a delayed opening day your child will take the bus at 9:15 A.M.
Please be on time for the buses. If your child is late for the designated pick up you will be responsible to bring your child to school.
Magalys Garriga, whose daughter Jannette died in a campus apartment at Rowan University in 2017, is unable to sue the school over her daughter’s suicide, a state appeals court has ruled, saying she missed a legal deadline by seventeen days.
Garriga said “paralyzing” grief caused her delay in filing a notice of tort claim with the college. She also said she “only became aware, several months after her daughter’s suicide, that professors and counselors at Rowan University may have pressured (her daughter) to take her own life.”
Jannette Garriga was a 27-year-old from North Bergen, Hudson County, and was a clinical psychology doctoral student at Rowan.
Her mother’s arguments had previously convinced a judge to extend the deadline to file, which came 90 days after the student’s death. However, a two-judge panel overturned the order, saying Garriga had not proved her delay was due to “extraordinary circumstances.”
Read more at www.legalreader.com
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