
The BBOED proposed a 2.87 percent property tax increase in its most recent budget.
The Bayonne Board of Education (BBOED) adopted a proposed budget for the 2018-2019 school year at a March 27 meeting that includes a 2.87 percentproperty tax increase for a total levy of $68.3 mill...

Tax abatements and PILOTs have been key talking points in Bayonne’s mayoral election, which will take place on May 8. Meanwhile, development like this one on 19 East 19th Street are shooting up.
Super PAC advertises against Davis “Secret deals with big developers, sky-high buildings in local neighborhoods, and backdoor tax breaks,” reads a pro-Jason O’Donnell Facebook political ad sponsore...

Mayor James Davis, Jason O’Donnell, and Dr. Mitchell Brown are running for mayor in the municipal May 8 elections.
Spring forward into Bayonne election season
Mayor and five council candidates to be elected on May 8
Mayor and five council candidates to be elected on May 8
Bayonne residents will likely be showered with political literature in April, as all five council seats and the mayor’s seat are up for election on May 8. Incumbent Mayor James Davis is being chall...

Thermal imaging cameras make infrared radiation visible, enabling responding fire companies to see through the darkness, smoke, and any surface that heat permeates.
Bravery got a boost earlier this month when the Bayonne Fire Department announced that every firefighter entering burning buildings will now be equipped with a handheld infrared camera. The cameras...

Bayonne is inching closer to a ferry on the southern shore of the former Military Ocean Terminal Base.
Bayonne moving toward ferry terminal The prospect of a ferry terminal in Bayonne is growing after the city and the Port Authority of NY and NJ signed a nonbinding term sheet that should pave the wa...

STATE OF THE COUNTY IS STRONG – County Executive Tom DeGise uses his annual speech to make a political point
County Executive Tom DeGise’s State of the County report – a usually droll accounting of the successes of county government and projects on the table for the upcoming year -- was set this year agai...

In the Spot News Photography category, Victor M. Rodriguez won first place for a picture in The North Bergen Reporter titled “Fire and Ice” after a catastrophic fire in Union City that displaced several families.
The Hudson Reporter newspapers recently won 22 awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s annual statewide contest. Members of the art and sales staffs won 11awards for work that appeared in the ...

Peculiar parking behavior infuriates Bayonne residents.
On March 14, the Bayonne City Council introduced an ordinance that would allow residents to park in front of their driveways. First, the council said that permits would cost $50, but have since cha...

The Bayonne City Council will reconsider its current animal control provider, NJ Animal Control and Rescue.
“On April 18 I hope to never say the words ‘animal control’ ever again,” said Bayonne Law Director John Coffey III after the Bayonne City Council voted to temporarily extend the city’s often critic...

Students at Bayonne High School demonstrated in a walkout for 17 minutes – one for each person killed a month earlier in Parkland, Florida.
Nearly as many students walked out of class in Bayonne as ran for their lives a month ago on March 14 at Margery Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland Florida where 17 students and staff were ki...