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Journey To The Cross

PERTH AMBOY – We invite you to join us for an Easter Holy Week excursion, Journey to the Cross, a guided meditative prayer-walk. We hope this evening will give you space to reflect on the events of Jesus’ crucifixion that you find the experience unique in a meaningful way. We are going to hold the […]

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SkillUp Middlesex

MIDDLESEX COUNTY – County offering over 4,500 Courses Through Free Online Learning Platform. Enhance skills and obtain industry recognized credentials by taking online courses developed by Skillsoft, a training provider used by Fortune-500 companies. Transportation/Logistics, Business Etiquette, QuickBooks, Project Management/Microsoft Office, Adobe, Accounting, Human Resources, Six Sigma, Informational Technology, Sales/Marketing, Custom Service, + 100’s More! […]

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Opinion: Caba Not the Choice for Perth Amboy; Unqualified to Lead 

PERTH AMBOY (Dec. 10, 2020) – With less than one week to go before Perth Amboy voters decide who will lead the city for the next four years in a run off election December 15, 2020, the Together, Perth Amboy Can Do Better campaign committee has made a formal declaration. In several recent sit-down meetings, […]

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Opinion: Vas Advocacy Forces Appointments To Rent Leveling Board

(Press Release) PERTH AMBOY – After failing for 12 ½ years, Mayor Wilda Diaz and the Perth Amboy City Council members confirmed the appointment of 5 members to fill the defunct Rent Leveling Board. Weeks after bringing this issue to light, tax-cutting attorney Joseph B. Vas successfully got Mayor Wilda Diaz to do in weeks […]

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Opinion: Desperate Diaz Uses Police and Firefighters to Distribute Campaign Literature Stating Lies About Rent Control

(Press Release) PERTH AMBOY – Mayor Wilda Diaz has sent City employees into the streets distributing false information at taxpayer expense in Perth Amboy’s hotly contested election, but local attorney Joseph B. Vas is demanding that state authorities put a stop to her illegal campaign activity. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal recently issued guidance […]

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Opinion: Vas Demands Public Meeting to Address Vandalized Vehicle Spree

(Press Release) PERTH AMBOY – Perth Amboy’s crime surge continued this past weekend as eight vehicles were reportedly broken into and vandalized at the Green Village Apartments located nearby the James J. Flynn Elementary School. This follows several months of violent crime activity in the bay city with little or no advisory notifications to residents. […]

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Opinion: Vas Blames Incompetent Leadership in City Hall for Police Misconduct

(PRESS RELEASE) PERTH AMBOY – Incompetent leadership in City Hall has cost taxpayers millions of dollars. Public records have revealed the Diaz administration has needed to settle numerous lawsuits with victims of law enforcement misconduct including police brutality and wrongful death actions, according to Mayoral candidate Joseph B. Vas. “Mayor Wilda Diaz is the Police […]

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Opinion: Diaz Misleads Perth Amboy Voters

(Press Release) PERTH AMBOY – With four weeks remaining in this year’s general election, Attorney Joseph B. Vas released an eye-opening critique of his principle opponent in the Perth Amboy Mayoral contest. Vas has charged Wilda Diaz with lying to voters while seeking a fourth four-year term. “When you lie in political propaganda and public […]

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Open Letter to Council President

Dear Council President Petrick: More than a month has elapsed since you penned a letter which appeared in the Amboy Guardian chronicling the surge of violent crime in Perth Amboy. Gunfire, attempted rapes, assaults, robbery and break-ins among the infractions you mentioned. Over this past weekend there was a report of more than 30 bullet […]

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Letter to the Editor | Puerto Rico: Poised to End America’s Foreign Drug Dependence

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EDITORIAL: Revisiting Mother Nature

Hell Hath No Fury Like a Woman Scorned! Man’s Best Friend: The Experiment What is more potent than the atomic bomb? The answer: mother nature. She has frontal attacks from the sky, the sea and the ground. She has the ability to wipe out whole towns in a matter of a few hours and can […]

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EDITORIAL: $400,000 Savings and Tuition Down!

I tend to have the radio on all night long. Sometimes in the middle of night, if I wake up I may hear something on the radio that sounds off the wall. So, I will sit up and listen to make sure what I heard was correct. This one story that I heard recently was […]

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Letter to the Editor

Sanctuary City??? Look at this: two male students from Rockville, Maryland High School named Henry Sanchez and Jose Montano who both came to the U.S. illegally, RAPED and SODOMIZED a 14-year-old girl in the high school restroom. So much for the SANCTUARY CITY that all those MAYOR’S were crying about, like in Perth Amboy, New […]

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Our Perspective on the Women’s March on Washington 1/20/17-1/22/17

This past weekend saw the Inauguration of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. The crowds included people from all over the world, but the most talked about event was the Women’s March which not only occurred in Washington D.C. ,but nationwide and all over the world. This march began because of […]

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Letters to the Editor – April 27, 2016

His or Her Say! One of the most entertaining things about reading the excerpts from the open forum portion of the Council Meetings printed in the Amboy Guardian is the knowledge that sooner or later two individuals will make statements showing an extreme prejudice regarding their agendas. There’s no need to name names as only […]

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Mayor’s Community Meeting 1/14/16

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