Monday, February 6, 2012
Every week Patch profiles a really cool kid. Send your nominations to alanskontra@hotmail.com
Whiz Kids is a weekly feature in which Patch profiles an outstanding youngster or youth group. This week's Whiz Kid is Cristian Rosa, who is awesome because he's learning how to crunch the numbers for big business. Whiz Kid: Cristian Rosa Age: 17 School: Hoboken High School, 11th Grade Cristian Rosa is already climbing the corporate ladder. The 17 year-old Hoboken High School junior works as an intern for the John Wiley & Sons publishing company. “I've been wanting to do it since my sophomore year,” Cristian says. “A teacher referred me, I handed in the application and got the job.” Cristian works two days a week for Wiley's global rights division. His daily responsibilities involve scanning contracts and archiving them in a database. He …
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
After recent suspension, the longtime employee says he's speaking out for the sake of the kids.
The Boys and Girls Club in Hoboken has serious issues, said longtime counselor and basketball coach Mike Mincey. He said there’s not enough building security, there are mouse droppings on the first floor and the Kool-Aid the kids drink is prepared in a storage closet that reeks of cleaning products. “It just breaks my heart because we could be so much better,” said Mincey, 45, who was suspended from his job for a week earlier this winter. Mincey, a lifelong Jersey City resident, has worked at the Boys and Girls Club on Jefferson Street for 12 years. He was suspended from his job with pay for a week in early January, after a parent filed several complaints against him, he said. After rules for the recreational basketball draft were changed…
Saturday, January 28, 2012
Every week Patch profiles a really cool kid. Send your nominations to alanskontra@hotmail.com
Whiz Kids is a weekly feature in which Patch profiles an outstanding youngster or youth group. This week's Whiz Kid is Karen Palacios, who is awesome because she's making time for everything. Whiz Kid: Karen Palacios Age: 17 School: Hoboken High School, 12th Grade Seventeen year-old Hoboken High School senior Karen Palacios sure is busy. She's in a lot of clubs, including the Chemistry, Italian and Hispanic Culture clubs. She's currently serving as the vice president of the Hispanic Culture Club and is also secretary of the student council. Karen says balancing everything is hard but she keeps a schedule book and makes enough time. “Sometimes I have to go to one meting, speak fast and then rush onto the next one,” she says. She's a good …
Claims state forced school districts to enforce law without providing funds
A new anti-bullying law that went into effect in September, requiring schools to spend more time on training, paperwork, investigations and hearings, was found unconstitutional by a state panel on Friday because the law didn't provide funding for schools to satisfy the new rules, officials announced. The ruling goes into effect in 60 days. The lead sponsor of the law, which was seen as one of the toughest in the nation, said legislators will try to find a way to make it work for everyone. The state Council on Local Mandates issued the ruling Friday after hearing a case brought by the Allamuchy school district, which argued the law was unconstitutional because it was an "unfunded mandate" that diverted resources from other areas. School …
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Photographer Peter Ziebel publishes photos of the city on his daily blog King Nopa.
Hoboken residents can challenge themselves to a game whenever they visit Peter Ziebel's daily photo blog King Nopa. They can look at the over 1,000 images of nondescript buildings on the site and guess where they are located in the city. Ziebel spoke about his photo project last week at the Hudson School as part of the school's monthly film and lecture series for adults entitled Think Thursdays. A professional photographer and author, Ziebel is also the photography teacher at the Hudson School. Wanting to examine urban landscapes, Ziebel has taken and published a new photo to the website every day since the first on April 7, 2009, with the only exception of missing five days while being sick with pneumonia. He said the project involves …
Friday, January 20, 2012
Every week Patch profiles a really cool kid. Send your nominations to alanskontra@hotmail.com
Whiz Kids is a weekly feature in which Patch profiles an outstanding youngster or youth group. This week's Whiz Kid is Samantha Perkins, who is awesome because she's building a strong work ethic at an early age. Whiz Kid: Samantha Perkins Age: 17 School: Hoboken High School, 12th Grade Seventeen year-old Hoboken High School senior Samantha Perkins is preparing to attend college next fall. She's already been accepted, with a scholarship, to St. Elizabeth, Iona and the University of Hartford. She is also waiting to hear from Ramapo. She plans to study secondary education. “I want to be a teacher, then at one point become a guidance counselor,” she says. Samantha is herself a good student, taking a full load of advance placement and …
Friday, January 13, 2012
Students from Hoboken Charter and other schools marched in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
Students from Hoboken Charter and three other schools walked on Friday morning in the 14th annual March on Washington Street to celebrate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. The students, who also came from All Saints, Elysian and Stevens Cooperative School, marched along Washington Street from Hoboken Charter, located near Seventh Street, to the steps of City Hall. The Hoboken Police Department closed the south bound lane of traffic for the march. The students and their teachers carried signs, sang songs and chanted “freedom” and “MLK”. Once they gathered at City Hall, SK Duff, the Director of Service Learning at Hoboken Charter, addressed the students. “This march is a metaphor,” Duff said. “It brings to life our history.” Mayor Dawn …
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Students of the month and updates on school district news
The Hoboken Board of Education honored its district’s students of the month, and updated the community on the latest happenings of the district during Tuesday’s monthly board meeting. Students of the Month included Johanna Sexton from Calabro School and Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks from Hoboken High School, who were on hand to receive their certificates. During the Superintendent’s report, former Business Administrator Robert Davis was given the floor to update the board on the status of the upcoming School Budget for 2012-2013. At the present time a first draft is anticipated to be put before the board within the next three weeks. According to Davis, the budget is being worked to address district and Board of Education goals. The first draft …
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
A new measure could give municipalities the option of moving school board elections from April to November. What do you think?
Soon, the city council or the board of education could decide to move the school board elections from April to November. The ultimate goal of proponents of the move is to increase voter participation. But what do you, the voter, think? Are you more likely to head to the polls on the first Tuesday in November, or is the third Tuesday in April just as easy? Let us know in our poll.
The new measure needs to be signed in effect by Gov. Chris Christie.
A new bill was passed in New Jersey's state senate on Monday that would give local school boards the authority to move the annual board of education elections from April to November as well as the option of eliminating the public vote on the school budget if it's at or below the state's two-percent levy cap. The bill was introduced in early December 2011 and passed by both houses. Now, Gov. Chris Christie has to sign the bill by Jan. 17 for it to go into effect. Local boards have three ways of implementing the new bill, if they so choose. A local school board or a local municipality can introduce a resolution, or the measure can be decided by a public referendum. Besides moving the elections to November—which, proponents say, will …
Hoboken Born and Raised
6:39 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2012
My son's attended abou 3.5 yrs ago, I thought the leadership in that program was top notch, there was a young lady running the program that was thoughtful, organized and cared about evey child. Her name was Ms. Rodrigues. She brought the food program to the Club. She was raised in the HHA and was a wonderful real role model fot the kids. I remember even back then thinking how immature and … more ›