BAYONNE, NJ - A federal grant for $150,000 that is intended to be used to help feed the hungry in Bayonne is being held up by questions related to regulations regarding the disbursement of funds and potential conflicts of interest, TAPinto Bayonne has learned.

While the program has been handing out food at the 16th Street Park, as well as making deliveries to people shut in at home, the ...

BAYONNE, NJ - The Bayonne Board of Education voted to approve a memorandum of agreement between with AFSCME Local 2231, the union that represents the District’s custodial staff. The four-year collective bargaining agreement will cover the period from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2025.

Under the agreement, the covered employees will receive a 3.5 percent pay increase in the first year ...

BAYONNE, NJ - The Bayonne Board of Education hired two new administrators and promoted six existing employees at its July 27 meeting.

Nicole Morrow was hired as an assistant principal at Midtown Community School while Monique Bullock was named to the same position at Bayonne High School. 

Tana Furmaniak was promoted from school counselor to assistant principal at Woodrow Wilson School, ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Though local voters won't see his name on the ballot for more than 15 months. Mayor Jimmy Davis has already received the support of two powerful labor organizations in anticipation of his run for reelection in 2022.

At a breakfast hosted on Tuesday, July 20, the Hudson County Building Trades and Teamsters Joint Council 73 both offered their endorsement to Davis and his ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Jodi Casais and Pamela Sclafane will seek reelection to the Bayonne Board of Education, running on a ticket with Melissa R. Godesky. Also filing petitions to seek one of the three seats up for grabs were Nicole Gabriele, Gina Irizarry, Petra Ghaly and Charles Ryan.

Elected in 2018, Casais attended John M. Bailey School and Holy Family Academy and all three of her children went ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Day after day, severe weather watches and warnings come across our screens here in our region. As we white-knuckle through the washouts in one of the wettest months in recent years, more and more residents demand to know what answers we have for the onslaught of urban flooding.

Resilient NJ is an initiative launched by the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection to ...

NEWARK, NJ – In a state faced with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the nation, Gov. Phil Murphy aims to tackle those numbers with the establishment of a universal home nurse visitation program for newborns.

Murphy signed a landmark bill (S690) on Thursday giving New Jersey one of the most comprehensive and robust home visitation programs in the country.

The ...

All lots of Neutrogena and Aveeno aerosol sunscreen products have been voluntarily recalled, announced Johnson & Johnson.

According to a company announcement, internal testing identified low levels of benzene in some product samples. Benzene is classified as a human carcinogen, a substance that could potentially cause cancer depending on the level and extent of exposure, stated the ...

BAYONNE, NJ - While it won’t be Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band providing the musical soundtrack for football or other school events in the upcoming year, the award-winning Bayonne High School Marching Band will be performing an all-Beatles repertoire, said assistant director Katrina Kleinmann.

Huddled in the shadow of the ice rink building against the scalding July heat, ...

BAYONNE, NJ - The owners of Nations Lending held a ribbon cutting at their 352 Avenue C office on July 15, nearly a year after the office actually opened.

“We couldn’t hold a ribbon cutting last year because of COVID,” said Esteban Estevez. “So, we decided to do it now.”

Prior to that he and the staff operated First Alliance Home Mortgage on 39th and ...

BAYONNE, NJ - A Bayonne man already wanted on an outstanding warrant out of Brick Township was arrested Thursday just hours after he is said to have stolen a vehicle from the area of 16th Street and Broadway.

According to a report by Captain Eric Amato, the incident began at approximately 8:46 a.m. when the vehilce was stolen. A broadcast alert was dispatched to all units and during the early ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Two Bayonne men, including one who led police on a brief foot chase, were arrested and charged in connection with separate bicycle thefts on Tuesday, Captain Eric Amato announced. 

In a statement, Amato reported that Robert Connolly, 49, was arrested at approximately 11:26 a.m. from the area of 50th Street and Avenue E after being identified as the suspected thief ...

TRENTON, NJ – The Attorney General’s Office announced on Friday that an investigation into the death of a driver who was fatally injured after setting himself on fire when Bayonne police officers attempted to make a motor vehicle stop is underway. The identity of the male decedent is not being released at this time.

The incident, according to a statement, took place just before ...

HUDSON COUNTY, NJ - Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez is seeking the public’s support in locating a 42-year-old Jersey City man wanted in connection with multiple sexual assaults against children. Salomon-Lopez is described as a shorter man with a medium build and may be known by this name or another alias.  

According to a statement, Salomon-Lopez is charged with ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Local religious leaders huddled under the pavilion in the 16th Street Park, retreating from a sudden downpour on July 15, reciting scripture and praying.

Despite the brief, but heavy, rain, representatives from many of the social services in and around Bayonne sat at tables distributing literature and offering advice to the scores of people who had come for the ...

BAYONNE, NJ - Even as the $2.1 million upgrade to Fitzpatrick Park, including the installation of flood control elements underground, continues, city officials announced recently the opening of a street hockey rink there. 

This is the first such space in Bayonne, and, according to Mayor Jimmy Davis, one that has been a long time coming. “We always wanted one when I was growing ...

JERSEY CITY, NJ - A decision by the international swimming federation (FINA) to disallow the use of a swim cap specifically designed to accommodate “thick, curly, and voluminous” in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics has caught the attention of Hudson County Assemblywoman Angela McKnight. 

According to Soul Cap’s website, the United Kingdom based company was founded by ...