The Bayonne Heritage Association announced that the annual Bayonne Italian Heritage Parade will take place on Sunday, October 18.  The parade will step off at 1:00 p.m. at 56^th Street and Avenue C.  The parade will march southwards down Avenue C until it reaches Devlin Drive, which is at the front of Gregg-Bayonne County Park, between 40^th and 41^st Streets.  The parade will break up in the park.

            Cindi Sisk-Galvin, President of the Bayonne Heritage Association, shared that, “The Bayonne Heritage Association is proud to host the 3rd annual Italian Heritage Parade. Come out and enjoy the parade as we honor three distinguished Italian community leaders, rich traditions, and contributions of Italian Americans. After the parade, we invite you to attend the parade after-party and celebrate with family, friends, food, music, and fun!”

            The 2026 parade has several honorees. The Grand Marshal of this year’s parade is local business owner Ralph C Citarella, Jr. of Bayonne Exterminating. The Italian Businessman of the Year is Pasquale (Patsy) Daddi of Daddi and Daughter, a downtown hair salon and barber shop.  The Italian First Responder of the Year is Police Chief Joseph Scerbo. 

            Several schools, clubs, and public safety agencies will be marching.  Among the participating Italian-American organizations are Unico, the Sicilian Citizens Club, the Sons of Italy, the Bayonne High School Italian Club, and the Italian American Police Society of New Jersey.  The Bayonne Police Department, the Bayonne Fire Department, and McCabe Ambulance will participate in the event.  There will also be a State Police flyover, weather permitting. 

            The parade will also feature various floats sponsored by organizations and stilt walkers.

            The post-parade party will take place at Robinson Hall, the event space in the basement of St. Vincent’s Church on Avenue C between 46^th and 47^th Streets.  To purchase tickets for the party, please go to bayonneheritage.org. 

            The Bayonne Heritage Association is a non-profit organization that sponsors parades, festivals, and other community events throughout the year.     

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By Joe Calamito

Back in September of 2026 I met two women on a mission, two dynamic and interesting ladies, Sharon Romano and Marie Costantino placing gold bows on the poles in Bayonne, I asked the ladies what they were doing, and what was the significance of the Gold bows?

Here is what they told me…

September is Childhood cancer Awareness Month and we advocate for the many children who are battling this disease, the ones who are survivors and life with side effects and those angels who sadly were taken from us way too soon.

We both lost our sons to cancer .

Sharon continued, her son is Anthony Costantino and mine is Michael Romano . Both boys went through the Bayonne Public Schools and played Cal Ripken Baseball despite their illness.

They had mentioned on October 9th, 2026 there would be a charity softball game which will support the above named hospitals to assist patients and their families financially . Bayonne’s town heroes Police and Fire Departments and members of the Bayonne Board of Education will play each other .  Our Buddy Baseball team will also support and play a few innings to show their support.  Their will be some raffles and donations will be accepted at the game.

Here are some photos from the game:

Sharon Romano, Mayor Sharon Ashe Nadrowski and Marie Costantino 

Let the game begin, Bayonne Police and Fire Departments doing their part

Bayonne’s Recreation Director Pete Amadeo ( Center left) with participants of Charity Baseball game

These children made a hit to help their fellow children

Bayonne residents doing what they do best, helping others by signing up for the raffle

There are about 15,000 children diagnosed with cancer each year in the US alone.

These two wonderful ladies hang gold bows throughout the town and have gained the support of the Bayonne Board of Education and this year, as in past years, the last Friday of September, the District allowed staff and students to wear Gold to support two wonderful Pediatric Cancer Foundations, also on September 25th, Bayonne City Hall with Bayonne Mayor Nadrwoski, City Hall gave their support with a flag raising.

The town of Bayonne truly comes together to support this important cause .

Two Moms on a Mission, who won’t stop until a cure is found.

No child fights alone. ? 

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       New Bayonne Fire Department Battalion Chiefs:  Mayor Jimmy Davis and the Fire Department leadership posed with the department’s newly promoted battalion chiefs (BC’s). Pictured left to right: Mayor Jimmy Davis, Fire Chief Keith Weaver, BC Christopher Czuba, BC Theodore Wolf, BC Michael Smith, BC Edward Ratyniak, BC Roger Nunez, BC Marcial Pivano, Deputy Fire Chief William Bartos, and Public Safety Director Robert Kubert. 

      New Bayonne Fire Department Captains:  Mayor Jimmy Davis and the Fire Department leadership posed with the department’s new captains: Mayor Davis, Fire Chief Keith Weaver, Captain Steven Pilanski, Captain Timothy Lynch, Captain James Pilger, Captain David Sisk, Captain Brian Petty, Captain Jeffrey Spengler, Captain Thomas Weber, Captain Richard Baccarella, Captain Michael Visone, Captain Brian Cotter, Captain Kevin Pietranico, Deputy Chief William Bartos, and Public Safety Director Robert Kubert. 

    The new battalion chiefs are Christopher Czuba, Theodore Wolf, Michael Smith, Edward Ratyniak, Roger Nunez, and Marcial Pivano.

           Battalion Chief Christopher Czuba is a graduate of Bayonne High School. He earned a degree in HVAC Technology at Lincoln Technical Institute. He was appointed to the Bayonne Fire Department in 1999. His extensive training and certifications include: Hazardous Material Tech, Confined Space, Fire Officer 2, Fire Official, and Fire Investigator.  He has earned several awards including Unit Citations for rescue on June 6, 2004 on 30^th St. and Kennedy Blvd., and a Team Effort Award from the Cooperman Barnabas Burn Center for the rescue of a person who was trapped in rising floodwaters of Hurricane Ida in September 2021.

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Firefighter Brodel was on hand today at the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony of Bayonne New Jersey’s first new firehouse in over 40 years a 3.5 million dollar state of the art firehouse which will service and protect the Bayonne community for years to come.

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This past February, firefighters with the Bayonne Fire Department and a number of firefighters from the Paterson Fire Department made their way out to Garret Mountain Reservation in Woodland Park New Jersey to be trained as Ice Rescue Technicians, and to become qualified Ice Rescue Trainers.

 Trainees made their way onto the thin ice of Barbour Pond, under the experienced guidance of trainers from a Sparta New Jersey based company called Firefighter-One. The firemen, wearing thermal protective rescue suits, cut holes in the ice to prepare for simulated rescue activities. Many firefighters took turns being the mock victim in the hole, while the rescuers worked a number of rescue techniques on the ice and from the shore to pull the victim to safety.

 The training went on for five days, and was funded by a Federal Port Security Grant. Two days of classroom activity was followed by three days on the ice. The firefighters involved were issued Ice Rescue Training Credentials giving the Fire Department the ability to further train other members at no additional cost.

 In the weeks that followed, the newly credentialed Bayonne Fire Department Ice/Rescue instructors provided classroom training to approximately fifty on-duty members of the Bayonne Fire Department. An elite group of Bayonne Firefighters, under the direction of the new trainers and with the assistance of volunteer members of the Byram Fire Department, gathered in Byram Township New Jersey at Cranberry Lake for four days of ice-rescue training on the ice. A total of twenty-two, on-duty firefighters from Bayonne, were trained to a higher level as Ice Rescue Technicians.

 The rescuers became proficient with ice-rescue techniques, and were given further opportunity for hands-on experience with their cache of water rescue equipment funded by a separate (AFG) Assistance to Firefighters Grant.

 Mayor Mark Smith: “  “ Director Jason Oâ€Donnell: “  “Chief Rogers: “Each winter we generally hear reports from across the State of people breaking through thin ice. This past winter, two children lost their lives on Budd Lake, and in February – an adult lost his life on Iosco Lake in Bloomingdale when the ice failed. Ice rescue training for Bayonne Firefighters is the natural progression of our Water Rescue initiative that has been ongoing for the last few years. Our water rescue initiative paid off during Superstorm Sandy, as properly trained and equipped Firefighters rescued over 100 people by boat from their flooded vehicles and homes. It is our responsibility to be prepared, and Ice Rescue Training will ready our firefighters to protect our citizens from the hazards of ice formation along our shores, near docks and marinas, at waterfront commercial sites, and community parks.”

 

Pictures Attached: Group Shot

L-R: Captain Howard Frank, Captain Jack Lopez, FF Al Liani, FF Ted Wolf,

FF Tom Reynolds, FF Roger Nunez

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Mayor Mark A. Smith announced today that the Bayonne Police Department Special Investigation Unit (SIU), in conjunction with the Warren County Prosecutor’s Office, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, and the Washington Township Police Department, executed a search warrant in Oxford, NJ, at the home of Bayonne Firefighter Kenneth Eisenhauer. The warrant was the culmination of a detailed and ongoing narcotics investigation that was initiated by the Bayonne Police Department, and conducted with the assistance of the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s Newark Field Division. The investigation resulted in the arrest of Eisenhauer and his wife, Roseanne Eisenhauer. The couple was charged with maintaining a marijuana cultivation facility, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. The Warren County Prosecutor’s Office additionally charged the Eisenhauers with child neglect.

The Bayonne Police SIU had obtained information that Firefighter Eisenhauer had attempted to obtain a variety of controlled dangerous substances through the Internet from international sources. It was discovered that he had represented his wife falsely as a research scientist in an effort to obtain the materials illegally. The SIU determined that a number of these attempts took place while Eisenhauer was on duty as a firefighter.

Mayor Smith commended the Bayonne Police SIU for their tenacity in following up on the information they obtained and in completing the investigation that resulted in the arrests. The Mayor also thanked the cooperating law enforcement agencies for their involvement. “As soon as we identified a problem, we moved swiftly to address it,” said Smith.

Firefighter Eisenhauer has been suspended without pay pending his termination. Mayor Smith said, “If you break the law, you don’t work for Bayonne.”

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