Category: Bayonne News

Continuing a program to partner with local charities that it started several years ago, the Bayonne Chamber of Commerce gave $5,100 in gift cards to local food pantries, helping bolster their ability to help the neediest people in the community. Newly-installed Chamber President Vincent Virga picked up where former president Matt Dorans left off by …

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When the city of Bayonne hired his public relations firm last year, Maurice Fitzgibbons said he was thrilled – not just because he got another government contract, but because he really loves Bayonne. “Bayonne has some really good people and I’ve admired the leadership there, not just Mayor Mark Smith, but all the way back,” …

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With temperatures more suited to early fall than to the beginning of winter, residents and officials gathered at The Networking Café on Dec. 20 to celebrate the Festival of Lights, part of an eight-day Jewish tradition commonly associated with Hanukkah. Rabbi Clifford B. Miller from Temple Emanu-El lit the Menorah along with the children from …

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Gun used in Avenue A killing was stolen The semi-automatic used in the Dec. 6 shooting of three adults and one infant was stolen from someone with a legal permit to own it, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office. The .45 Caliber pistol was originally purchased from a store in Essex County. According to …

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Construction of Bayonne first windmill began in late November, promising to help provide power to run some of the city’s sewerage operations. Contractors began construction of the base for the windmill at the foot of the Oak Street sewerage pumping station. Steve Gallo, executive director of the Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority, said the project broke …

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For Washington Community School Principal Kenneth Kopacz, state-mandated classroom instruction for dealing with the issue of bullying was not enough. So when some of his staff came up with the idea that they should make it clear to the community as a whole that bullying was not an acceptable behavior in or out of schools, …

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Bayonne became something of an ideological battle ground over state aid to schools recently as the school district geared up for a campaign to pressure New Jersey to release as much as $50 million they say was promised but never delivered. Meanwhile, former Bogota Mayor Steve Lonegan, the leader of a conservative group called “Americans …

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After years of trying to get his invention to market, Daniel Repette III, a retired Weehawken fire captain, has learned a lot of things – not just how to make his product more efficient, but also how tough it is to find a market. Several years ago, Repette, a Hoboken native who moved to Bayonne …

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City attorney disqualifies rent control petitions Signatures submitted to the city on Dec. 11 that would require changes to rent control to be put on a ballot for a public vote were ruled invalid because each sheet did not display the names of the committee people. The Bayonne Tenants Organization is disputing changes to the …

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The moment you walked in the front door of the Bayonne branch of the New York Sports Clubs, you could feel the energy – men and women using exercise machines, the swimming pool, even the yoga room in back. So comfortable did everybody seem that you’d hardly know that this was the first day of …

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