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Even in a stark, unappealing rehearsal space filled with metal folding chairs, instrument cases, music stands, and an assortment of other musical related items, strains of music resound – three potent voices rising up in haunting harmony as piano, drums, flute, and bass guitar build beneath them. Outside in the hall, students, teachers, and others …

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Sanity prevailed in a decision by the state legislative redistricting committee last weekend to support Democratic maps that would largely leave legislative districts unchanged. Federal, state, and freeholder districts are required to change their boundaries to reflect changes in population, as shown by the most recent census. “This is a win for Hudson County,” said …

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Gallo quits as freeholder aide Claiming he is pressed for time and not because a story was published about his job, Steve Gallo said he is resigning as an aide to Freeholder Doreen DiDomenico. Gallo, who also serves as the city’s business administrator, chief of staff to Mayor Mark Smith, a legislative aide to Assemblyman …

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For more years than many people can remember, the Abramson’s Jewelers Clock as been a guide. “People would tell each other to meet at the clock, and everybody knew what it meant,” said Mary Divock, executive director of the Bayonne Town Center Management Corporation, which manages the Special Improvement District where the clock is located. …

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Over the last several months, solar panels have begun to appear at the intersections in the southernmost portion of Bayonne known as Bergen Point, raising questions among residents as to their purpose and origin. Some believed the panels might be used to help power the cameras provided by Homeland Security to the Bayonne police, but …

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Unveiling what he called a “historic banking initiative” this week, Freeholder Chairman Bill O’Dea said he hoped to modify the way the county does business with banks in order to better support those banks that provide good services to Hudson County residents. A committee report was scheduled to be presented to the freeholder board at …

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Using investigative technology similar to that featured on television programs such as “CSI,” Bayonne police detectives were able to tie a Bayonne man to the thefts of 24 vans over a 17-month period. After an investigation lasting nearly two years, police arrested Marcelino Torres, 40, of Bayonne and charged him with stealing 24 minivans during …

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The Cluster Soup Kitchen in Bayonne, sponsored by three Catholic parishes – St. Andrew’s, St. Mary’s and Assumption churches – celebrated its third anniversary in February. Along with food pantries at the Windmill Alliance and St. Vincent’s Church, the Cluster Soup Kitchen has become one of the key institutions keeping poorer residents in the city …

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Former Pamrapo executive found guilty of embezzling Brian Campbell – the former managing director of the Pamrapo Service Corporation, the investment arm of the former Pamrapo Savings Bank – was convicted of embezzling over $571,000 in commissions and fees belonging to the Service Corporation through a mail fraud scheme, said U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman …

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