
North Bergen Receives Grant For Pedestrian Safety, Hudson County Locals Share Suggestions
North Bergen will receive $1 million in grant funds to improve pedestrian safety on Bergenline Avenue through New Jersey’s 2024 Safe Streets to Transit Program

North Bergen will receive $1 million in grant funds to improve pedestrian safety on Bergenline Avenue through New Jersey’s 2024 Safe Streets to Transit Program

Nature is for everyone. That is the motto of Team Wilderness — a Jersey City based organization that is encouraging urban teenagers to explore nature. What started as a summer program to get students into nature has turned into a multi-program organization that serves kids all year round. In New

Cities are guaranteed to change, but how? That’s decided at city council meetings. The first city council meeting of the year was Jan. 10 and as a first time attendee, it was overwhelming to say the least.

I wish I had the opportunity to learn more about textured hair while I was in school so I wouldn’t have to seek classes now.”

Text-for-poem is a literary art project created by Benedicto Figueroa that sends a poem to your phone. The project is scheduled to run for nine months.

I ran outside where my other neighbor, who was also moving her car, was already on the phone trying to get through. My trembling hands and the frigid cold made it difficult to dial 9-1-1; the small fire from the side of the house was intimidating.

It’s been two years since the streets of Hudson County have seen 1-2 inches of snow flurries. But this week, Mother Nature graced us with back-to-back storms. As exciting as it was to see snow fall again, temperatures dropped to freezing amount activating a Code Blue alert throughout the state.

Photo credits to the Jersey Journal “Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in,” these were the words that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Hudson County small businesses weather through hardships for generations even when faced with a changing economy and pandemic. They are the backbone of communities.

The Gov. Murphy administration is continuing their work in strengthening unionized workforce and doubling the number of apprenticeship programs in fields like life sciences, adult-use cannabis, home health care and clean energy.





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