Category: Bayonne News

For residents of Post Road Gardens, a Bayonne public housing complex located off Avenue A near Newark Bay, Richard Constable III, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (DCA), could not have picked a better day to inspect than on June 22 when rising temperatures scalded the air. Constable, who arrived neatly dressed …

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Proving that they can field a variety of angles and subjects on their news beats, two reporters from the Hudson Reporter chain won accolades from the New Jersey Society of Professional Journalists recently. The awards were granted as Excellence in Journalism Awards for work done in 2011. “These reporters put a lot of hard work …

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Study to make the buses run faster A public hearing was held in Bayonne City Hall to outline a year-long study designed to improve bus transportation between Bayonne and Journal Square. The study will require public input, suggestions and comments in order to possibly design a Bus Rapid Transit System, which is a flexible bus …

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“This contest really wasn’t about pizza,” said Vincent Virga, president of the Bayonne Chamber of Commerce during the June 7 Chamber social, at which winners of the first annual Bayonne’s Best Pizza Challenge were awarded prizes. Despite the fact that local pizzerias were getting the awards, there wasn’t a pizza to be found at the …

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After a severe summer squall tore across New York Harbor, ripping open the sky with streaks of lightning, city, state and federal officials stepped hesitantly out onto the rain-drenched pavement from the shelter of Global Terminal on June 23. Dressed in business suits and other attire more appropriate for the office than the waterfront, they …

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Richard B. Clark, 63, stood in the middle of his back yard on West 25th Street looking as if he was losing his best friends. In some ways, he was. A tow truck groaned and pulled out the first of several rusted amusement rides straight out of the 1950s. It was not their age that …

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One thing you can’t help noticing when you sit in the office at Jerry’s Drug and Surgical supply store on Broadway is that the phone never stops ringing, and voices keep rising up on the intercom, checking orders or supplies. Michael Bologh, who bought out his father in 2007 as proprietor, doesn’t seem to notice, …

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Gas leak in Jersey City Bayonne firefighters responded to report of a major gas leak after a 16-inch gas line ruptured in near the Country Village section of Jersey City on June 25. The line reportedly broke around 10:05 a.m. during water main repairs in the area just north of 63rd Street and Kennedy Boulevard. …

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The Richard Korpi Ice Rink buzzed with excited voices as the crowds rolled in, hundreds of people piling into the bleachers and along the glass-enclosed balcony overlooking the playing area. No day during this whole school year seemed as special as this one or drew so much excitement, even though this year saw championships in …

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