Category: Bayonne News

Faced with a 75 percent cut in federal funding for its Work Force Development program, Hudson County Freeholders are seeking to revamp and make more efficient the programs that will help get people off welfare and into jobs Freeholder Bill O’Dea grilled Work Force Investment Board Executive Director Anthony Corsi at the May 10 meeting, …

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Labor officer sentenced 30 months for embezzlement The former secretary treasurer of a New Jersey ironworkers’ union was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $560,000 from the union, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced on Thursday. James J. Kearney Jr., 44, of Bayonne, previously pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge …

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Even when the disaster is simulated, it scares the hell out of you. Bayonne Fire Chief Greg Rogers arrived on the scene of this year’s simulated disaster in time for the extraction of victims from a collapsed parking deck. “It was eerie,” he said, knowing deep down in his bones that it could become real …

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Four hours into a flight that was supposed to take them to Hawaii for a friend’s wedding, Jersey City police officers Paul Fennel and Robert Taino Jr. were confronted with a man who had clearly gone berserk and was lunging towards the cockpit. They grabbed him and held him until the plane made a landing …

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Longtime Bayonne residents would best remember Robert P. Fackina Jr. for a float he took part in at the annual Memorial Day Parades in the 1960s, where for several years he and other sons and nephews of Marine Corps League members were part of a depiction the famous statue of the Flag Raising on Iwo …

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After passing a resolution in March that would require the Hudson County Community College to implement Project Labor Agreements for ongoing and future construction projects that would require inclusion of union labor and other provisions, the Hudson County Freeholders at the April 24 caucus threatened to withhold funding for capital improvements at the school. The …

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The life of a gay artist, photographs from 9/11 ceremonies, images of a painful Holocaust loss, as well as reflections of hope and depictions of ordinary life brought The Hudson Reporter’s staff writers and photographers awards recently in the Garden State Journalist Associations’ contest. The newspaper chain, with offices in Hoboken and Bayonne, publishes nine …

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Three men arrested in Avenue C shooting Anthony Williams, 23, who was wounded as a result of a gun shot in car parked near Avenue C and 16th Street on Sunday, was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of marijuana with intend to distribute, and intent to distribute within 1,000 feet of a school. He …

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First the flags came, and then the candles, old veterans clinging to the patriotic colors while young students held their hands around the flickering flame that was to symbolize memories of horrors passed, but not forgotten. Each year, the community gathers in City Hall to mark Yom Hashoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, which is an …

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People had come to Dennis Collins Park on April 27 to plant a tree, not witness a piece of history. In fact, the gathering of environmentalists and Department of Public Works employees weren’t scheduled to come to that part of the city at all, but had changed plans at the last minute. The original Arbor …

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