Category: Bayonne News

Set against a backdrop of an impromptu birthday celebration for him and an event to name a new Pediatric Screening Center after him on Jan. 7 at the Metropolitan Family Health Network offices in Jersey City, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez said he will oppose any move to repeal the federal healthcare package that critics call …

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Post Christmas storm hit before city contracted for snow removal The $600,000 cost for snow removal may be partly due to the fact that the City Council did not have time to contract for snow removal services. “We bid for and have a contract for salt,” said City Clerk Robert Sloan. “We went out to …

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At around 10 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 26, key people from emergency management for the city of Bayonne met in the office of Mayor Mark Smith to prepare an action plan to deal with an unexpectedly severe snowstorm making its way up the East Coast. “The mayor wanted us there to discuss what we were …

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When 1st Ward Councilwoman Agnes Gillespie heard the news that the Port Authority wants to raise the Bayonne Bridge by 165 feet to let ships through, she nearly jumped that high for joy. “I’m absolutely elated,” she said, grinning from ear to ear. The Port Authority issued a long anticipated report just before the end …

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The blizzard that struck the New Jersey area on Dec. 27 delayed the opening of the Bayonne Lowe’s Home Improvement Center, which was scheduled for the same time. But lines of people were waiting outside the center’s doors the next morning, soon putting a sizeable dent in the stores stock of snow shovels, ice melting …

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Phil Surico and Adam Willets started out working side by side on Wall Street as stock traders who had a dream to start up the kind of business in which they could have more day-to-day involvement. “We started as traders on the New York Stock Exchange,” Surico said – but it was a precarious and …

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First baby for Bayonne? Bayonne’s first baby will likely be Bianca Victoria Zaskowski, who was born in Freehold Township at 12:05 a.m. on Jan. 1. Delivered to Bill and Kerry Zaskowski of Bayonne, Bianca Victoria was born at the Centra State Medical Center at 8 pounds, 7 ounces. If she is indeed the first baby …

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Some years are just more significant than others, and looking back, 2010 will be seen as a year of dramatic change, with the opening of a new mall, the swearing in of a new City Council, and a change of direction regarding development. Businesswise, the year opened with a bang with the reopening of a …

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If anyone deserves to be named political man of the year for Hudson County, it must be Republican Gov. Christopher Christie. His changes on the state level after he was sworn in early this year will have an indelible impact on the future of local government and local politics. Cuts in state aid to schools …

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