Category: Bayonne News

The line of people was out the door at the County Annex Building on Pavonia Avenue on Sept. 27 – and it wasn’t because of a shortage of tickets to some new hot musical act. The line was the result of new security rules implemented after Freeholder Bill O’Dea complained at the Sept. 25 freeholder …

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Elementary school gets lockdown Public safety and school officials decided to lock down John M. Bailey School on West 10th Street last week as a result of a domestic violence incident that occurred nearby. Although rumors circulated that there was a weapon involved, Public Safety Director Jason O’Donnell said the kids were brought into the …

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“While I was thinking about the ceremony today, I was trying to think of a way to have people understand what it means to be looking for our POWs and MIAs,” said Thomas Buchanan, commander of American Legion Post, at the Sept. 16 POW/MIA Remembrance Day ceremony in Fitzpatrick Park in Bayonne. “The younger generation …

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In August, Kevin and Kim Hennings asked the Bayonne City Council to consider changing the city’s health ordinance to allow residents to raise a few chickens, the way some other municipalities had in the state. “We want them for fresh eggs and maybe as pets,” they said. The Henningses returned to the City Council on …

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Most people know that oil and water don’t mix. Neither does water with fuels and chemicals, especially if they happen to be on fire. Water, according to some fire experts, can actually cause a chemical fire to spread. A city like Bayonne is a storehouse for an alphabet soup of chemicals, nearly all of them …

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While the U.S. Military may have its legendary Area 51 where it is rumored to have housed mysterious aliens from outer space after a spaceship crashed in Arizona in 1947, Hudson County can boast its own deep money pit, Building 77, into which taxpayers poured millions of dollars in renovation costs over the last several …

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Former prosecutor named to Marist High School Board Leo J. Hurley Jr., an attorney with Archer & Greiner P.C. in Hackensack, N.J., has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Marist High School, a private Catholic, coeducational, four-year college preparatory school, accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The Board of …

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“Today was a remarkably brilliant day, just as it was 11 years ago, an absolutely stunningly beautiful morning and, as we all know, in a few short moments, it turned into one of the most horrific scenes imaginable,” said Mayor Mark Smith in an address before several hundred people who had gathered at dusk near …

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Kelli McGovern is as new to Bayonne High School as the dance class she teaches. For the first time, dance instruction has become an elective and many of the nearly 100 kids who signed up for it are thrilled. McGovern, who teaches the program along with Lori Alexander, said she’s still working out some of …

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Gwen Clayton Diakos knows exactly when she decided to she was going to run for elected office: May 17, 2011. “That was the day [West New York] Mayor [Felix] Roque took office,” she said. “I was very inspired by his victory. He beat the political machine and set an example for others like me to …

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