A New Mayor: Mayor Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski takes the oath of office. Pictured left to right: Charlie Nadrowski (the mayor’s son) and Mayor Ashe-Nadrowski.
After being sworn into office on July 1, Mayor Sharon Ashe-Nadrowski said in her inaugural address that her mayoralty would bring “a new beginning, a fresh start, and a chance to make things right.” Speaking in the swearing-in ceremony at Bayonne High School, Mayor Ashe-Nadrowski said that becoming the first female mayor “was not about me.” Rather, she said, it is “about the future of Bayonne.”
Mayor Ashe-Nadrowski decried what she called “out-of-control development” and changes in the character of Bayonne’s neighborhoods. In response to those trends, she pledged to begin a new master plan process to develop new zoning for Bayonne “with extensive public participation.” Mayor Ashe-Nadrowski said that decisions should be made by “the people who live here” and not by “special interests.” She called for a new master plan that would reflect “the wants, needs, and values of our community.” In the coming weeks, she pledged to sponsor a new ordinance that would prohibit data centers in Bayonne…