Category: Bayonne News

You didn’t need a passport to get into the Holy Family Academy gym on Jan. 23, but it helped, as organizers kicked off a new year of fundraising for a problem called Relay For Life, which works towards an overnight event on June 7 and 8 to raise funds to fight cancer. Relay For Life …

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Although thousands of students have come to visit the veterans’ museum at the Joyce-Herbert Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 226 on West Ninth Street since it opened its doors in 2007, it is still a struggle to keep the doors open. Energy and other costs are rising all the time, and there is a general …

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Marijuana isn’t the only thing you’ll be banned from smoking in Hudson County parks in the coming months. Taking matters a step further than requested by no-smoking advocates, the Hudson County freeholders are poised to introduce an ordinance that would ban all cigarette smoking in county parks and would impose fines on people smoking near …

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Dublin sworn in a president of NJAC Freeholder Jeffrey Dublin was sworn in as President of the New Jersey Association of Counties (NJAC) on Jan. 29, in the Senate Chambers of the New Jersey State House in Trenton NJAC was originally founded in 1921 to represent the interests of the State’s 21 County Freeholder Boards. …

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Although there is still a long list of items that need to be fixed before the new police station can be used, police and city officials are pleased as punch about it. This is the first upgrade since the station was constructed along with the building in 1971, and all of it has been paid …

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Walking into the waiting room for the 5,200-square-foot Lorraine M. LaPilusa Cancer Treatment Center at Bayonne Medical Center is like walking into someone’s living room. It has softer lights that you would find in most doctors’ offices, and a sense of peace that is only enhanced by the smile of the receptionist. Although the facility …

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For the second month in a row, teachers protested before the Bayonne School Board at the Jan. 24 meeting about the lack of contract after two-and-a-half years. His voice hoarse from shouting, Teachers’ Union Representative Alan D’Angelo told the teachers that if they did not do something about the situation now, and continued to perform …

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A six-story apartment complex slated for John F. Kennedy Boulevard and West 44th Street could get back on track if the City Council and the Bayonne Planning Board agree to expand the redevelopment area that it first established in 2006. The city is seeking a planning board to expand the redevelopment designation for property along …

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Avenue A fire extinguished quickly On Jan. 25 at 3 p.m., the Bayonne Fire Department was dispatched to 716 Avenue A for a report of a building fire. Upon arrival, firefighters cleared the building of occupants and discovered a small section of flames traveling the exterior of the building near the roof peak. The firefighters …

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The bagpipes echoed in the room and filled the Dorothy Harrington City Council Chambers on Jan. 10, not in a dirge of sorrow, but in a harmony of hope as Bayonne held a swearing-in ceremony for 11 new police officers. “On Feb. 15, 1983, almost 30 years ago, I sat in these very same seats …

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