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Bernard Golomb, president of the Town Center Management Corporation (TCMC), has been charged with theft and forgery after he allegedly took $160,949.36 without proper authorization. Golomb, who was one of the authorized signatories for the corporation account, is being accused of alleged misuse of the corporation’s debit card and allegedly issuing checks with a forged …

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Tim Craig, director of Fine and Performing Arts and Business Education for the Bayonne Public School District, was recognized as the 2016 Visionary Director/Supervisor of the Year by the New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (NJPSA). The award recognizes principals, assistant principals, and directors of supervisors for innovative and transformative initiatives that improve the quality …

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Only on rare occasions are school budgets defeated in the Bayonne School District, but on Thursday nightthe Board of Education, absent one board member, voted against the $129.9 million 2016-2017 school budget in a 4-3 decision.Board secretary Gary Maita said he has not seen a budget fail to pass in his 20-plus years at the …

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Former Bayonne Assemblyman Jason O’Donnell was standing in the conference room of his Asbury Park office on May 3 when one of his coworkers looked out the window and saw a woman floundering in the frigid waters of Wesley Lake, a narrow but deep body of water separating the city from the village of Ocean …

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8 year-old’s stolen medical stroller covered by insurance A $6,000 medical stroller belonging to an 8 year-old girl will be covered by insurance after it was stolen on May 1, according to the girl’s mother. While she was helping her daughter, who suffers from an undisclosed medical condition, the medical stroller was taken from in …

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As of May 1, Bayonne Medical Center no longer accepts Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (BCBSNJ) as in-network insurance. Starting June 1, Hoboken University Medical Center will follow suit unless CarePoint, which owns the two for-profit hospitals, and Horizon negotiate a contract. Carepoint also owns Christ Hospital in Jersey City. Horizon BCBSNJ …

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David Porto, 43, of Jersey City, was fatally struck by a northbound Ford F-350 pickup truck on John F. Kennedy Boulevard between 30th and 31st streets on Wednesday afternoon while trying to enter his parked Nissan wagon, according to a statement from the Bayonne Police Department. Porto was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck …

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Local residents voiced complaints about a Broadway smoke shop with a window display of four shiny hookahs that resemble machine guns: metallic black, silver, pink, and gold. Originating in the Middle East and South Asia, Hookahs are large tobacco pipes with long flexible tubes that draw in smoke through a water basin. The complaints One …

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Thirty-one school districts in New Jersey currently receive state funds for free pre-K 3 and 4 programs in their public schools. Although Bayonne is not one of them, some legislators hope to increase the number past 100 (almost a sixth of the state’s districts) so that low-income parents in those towns won’t have to pay …

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Bayonne School Budget hearing postponed to next Thursday Last week’s Board of Education school budget hearing was rescheduled to this Thursday, May 5 at 699 Avenue A in the board’s Anna J. Herbert Room. The proposed budget is around $129 million and includes a school tax increase of 2.78 percent. Bayonne Middle School gives wrong …

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