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EDITORIAL: When the Smoke Settles

I don’t know about anybody else, but I’m tired of the debates of potential Presidential candidates on both sides. The constant bickering and name calling is tiresome. It seems that the moderators are losing control. Candidates constantly talk over each other, raise their voices and eventually none are getting their point across. It is sort […]

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Perth Amboy Council Confused

Mayor Diaz Does a Tom Petty! I Won’t Back Down! PERTH AMBOY – Caucus 3/7/16 – R-129-3/16 Authorizing Emergency Temporary Appropriations to extend CY2016 Temporary Budget in the amount of $9,414,268.05. Mayor Wilda Diaz was not happy with this. Diaz firmly stated, “I will not sign any resolution or contract not approved by the Administration […]

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Down to Brass Tacks

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South Amboy Announces $1.3 Million Surplus

Council Receives News at  South Amboy Business Meeting By Joseph L. Kuchie SOUTH AMBOY – Mayor Fred Henry announced a $1.3 Million surplus in South Amboy’s upcoming 2016 budget at last week’s business meeting. “We will be putting some of that [surplus] back into the budget to so we can help the taxpayers this year,” […]

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Mayor Wilda Diaz State of the City

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Second Fire at Apartment Complex In Six Months

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Hy Tavern’s Outside Façade Suffers Partial Collapse

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EDITORIAL

The War Reignites I said I wasn’t going to touch the subject of elections again, but a comment made at a Perth Amboy Council Meeting really irked me. The Perth Amboy Board of Education and the Perth Amboy City Council are at war. The issue: the election date of the BOE. In past years, there […]

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Losing Confidence: Firestorm Opens Up

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State of the City Address

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Snow Clean-Up Discussed

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The Problems Will Continue

2/8/16 Caucus PERTH AMBOY – Topic for discussion: Annual Report – USA-PA. (Utility Service Associates Perth Amboy) Middlesex Water Company). At a previous Council Meeting B.A. Peter Pelissier told the Council that they should schedule a meeting with Middlesex Water Company so they could go over the problems that the City is experiencing with huge […]

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Assemblyman John S. Wisniewski Speaks to P.A. Dems

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Affirmative

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The Battle Continues and Old Wounds Reopened

2/10/16 Council Meeting PERTH AMBOY –  Resolution R-83 – 2/16 – Moving the Election Date of the Perth Amboy School Board Members to the first Tuesday after the First Monday in November. Resident Stanley Sierakowski was very interested in this resolution. As he did previously, Sierakowski told the Council Members that the Board of Education […]

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Resident Feels House is in Danger

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Safety Announcement

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