Category: Bayonne News

When someone told Dr. Jack Smith he had been promoted to Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, he didn’t know what the man was talking about. Smith is in the Army Medical Reserves. While he has been called a colonel before, even a general, it was always by some interpreter overseas when he was …

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Hudson County Sheriff Frank Schillari met with members of the Freeholders’ Public Safety Committee in a closed session to discuss the implementation of the volunteer deputy sheriff’s program – and agreed to consider the freeholders’ concerns when the program is implemented at some point later this year or early next year. The freeholders raised questions …

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The scenario is simple: a man was murdered back in the Roaring ’20s, when the fictional cafe was a speakeasy. A descendant, two generations later, hires a psychic to find out who did it. Joe Prussac from Bayonne has been running the DOA Mysteries Dinner Theater Company for about two years, although he had the …

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Emergency workers could only wait and pray after three people called 911 on Sept. 29 to say that three floors of scaffolding installed at 424 Ave. E had come loose. With streets closed over the 30th Street bridge and for a full block leading up to Bayonne Medical Center, emergency workers struggled to secure the …

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Bayonne officials said that the proposed $60 million transitional budget for the six months ending on Dec. 31 will have no tax increase over the August bill, despite published reports to the contrary. However, the budget does maintain the increase taxpayers saw in their August bill over the previous fiscal year. The city is switching …

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The recently founded Peninsula Women’s Club will take part in the Read for the Record program, in partnership with Pearson Foundation, as a kick-off event for a pretty hefty schedule of planned civic events for the upcoming months. Called “Pajama Story Time,” the event will be held at the Bayonne Public Library and Media Center …

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Thomas Urciuoli has lived his whole life in Bayonne. He served as a member of the United States Army in Germany during the Korean conflict and returned to his hometown to pick up his career as a construction company manager – from which he has since retired. So it is more the wonder why a …

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MVC employee’s death from MRSA probably wasn’t from contact with client An employee from the Bayonne office of the Motor Vehicle Commission died last week from a contagious disease that fellow workers reportedly believed she caught from a client. But Bayonne health officials said the disease could not have been contracted at the MVC office, …

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The rain exploded into a downpour on Sept. 7, just as four Department of Public Works employees picked up a three-foot-long piece of steel that had once been part of the World Trade Center and made their way towards the front doors of City Hall and the waiting flat bed truck parked on the street. …

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