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The third annual Bergen Point Fall Festival gets a big turnout. Vendors packed Broadway, selling everything from food and apparel, to offering prizes to guess how much a pumpkin weighs. Musicians performed, art galleries opened their doors, and restaurants extended theirs. Click here for more.
The Muslim Community Center on Avenue C and 27th Street was vandalized the morning of Friday, October 14, in what many are calling a hate crime. Graffiti of a racist and hateful nature was spray painted on the façade, near the entrance. In a statement, the police said they caught the alleged perpetrator, Jonathon Hussey, 20 of Bayonne, using an eyewitness statement and camera footage from area buildings. Click here for more.
The Bayonne Community News sent all 12 Bayonne Board of Education candidates a questionnaire designed to demonstrate to voters the candidates’ platforms and overall knowledge necessary to perform the duties of a trustee. At press time, Michael Alonso, John Cupo, Gina Irizarry, Sharma Montgomery and Denis Wilbeck had responded. Click here for more.