Tag: East Rutherford

  • Barack Obama

    In his own words at the Meadowlands in East Rutherford, N.J.: “ I have always been convinced that change in America does not happen from the top down. Change happens from the bottom up. So I believed that if we could get the voices of the American people to join together, people from all walks…

  • MOURNING FRIENDS RECALL YOUNG BIKER’S LOVE OF LIFE; Train Killed  Bergenfield Boy in `Freak Accident’

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, April 5, 1992 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | A01 At a most difficult hour in his grief Saturday, Bob Gruber embraced a tearful Mike Vitacco, his son’s best friend, consoling him, as he did some 100 boys and girls who had…

  • NEIGHBORS AID TENANTS DISPLACED BY FIRE

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Saturday, December 14, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | Two Star B | NEWS | Page A04 Neighbors have begun raising money to help tenants of 6 Edison Place, who were displaced Wednesday by a fire that gutted the wood-frame, two-family house. The fire was caused by…

  • RAID AT RACETRACK; 70 SEIZED AS ILLEGAL WORKERS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Wednesday, November 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page B08 Federal immigration officials on Tuesday seized 70 workers in a sweep of The Meadowlands Racetrack for illegal aliens, authorities said. Immigration and Naturalization Service agents, working on a tip and after…

  • TAKE PRIDE, PROFESSOR URGES BLACKS

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Sunday, October 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page A03 After professor Rosalind Jeffries concluded a speech urging blacks to take pride in their heritage, a waiter went over and thanked her for inspiring him and exhorted her to press on with…

  • COP’S GUN GOES OFF; TEENAGER HIT IN ARM

    By Michael O. Allen, Record Staff Writer | Tuesday, August 20, 1991 The Record (New Jersey) | All Editions | NEWS | Page B03 A state trooper wounded a Bronx teenager in the arm Sunday when his service gun went off accidentally during a traffic stop, officials said. Louis Mancuso, the 17-year-old passenger in a…