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Willmont Griffin – often called “Griff” – is a Vietnam-era veteran even though his tour of duty only required him to serve in that country for two days. He was one of the U.S. Marines pulling terrified people into a CH-53 helicopter just before Saigon fell in April 1975 after Communist forces captured the city. …

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When Secret Service agents walked through the front door of Andrew’s Café in Bayonne in July, the owner, Vasantha M. Perera, didn’t know what to think. Formerly a chef at the White House during the administration of Pres. Bill Clinton in 1998, Perera had dealt with the Secret Service before. But the last thing he …

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Blaming George Romero isn’t a film about zombies, although filmmaker Brad Resnick and the film’s writer, Sam Platizky, are die hard fans of zombie movies. The film is about people just like themselves, fans of zombie and other horror flicks who at a particular moment in time seem to blur the line between fiction and …

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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went, even if it wasn’t far. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the shore? …

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Getting something in return Bayonne and Jersey City received a share of more than $101,032 in rebates from the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission for the role city inspectors played in reporting new connections to the system. The rebates, which will help offset local property taxes, are given as part of PVSC’s Municipal Rebate Incentive Program …

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Some Bayonne residents are very upset about the proposed relocation of the “Tear Drop” memorial in Bayonne, a 100-foot high monument to the victims of the terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. “We don’t know where it is going to be moved,” said Frank Perrucci, chairman of the September 11th …Bayonne Remembers Committee, which is …

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Representatives from the Federal Energy Regulator Commission who came to Bayonne to hear comments from the public over the proposed route of a new natural gas line got an earful on Aug. 5. At the Knights of Columbus Hall on Avenue C, more than 150 residents raised objections in having a gas line run through …

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The old adage that “God works in mysterious ways” certainly applies to Rev. Dorothy A. Patterson, who took over as pastor of the Wallace Temple A.M.E. Zion Church in May. This isn’t only because she is the first female minister in the congregation’s 117-year-history. It’s also how she made her way to the ministry after …

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An ordinance that would allow residents to neuter and release stray cats engendered some strong feelings at the first official business meeting of the newly elected City Council on July 28. The feral cat ordinance had failed to get a second from the outgoing City Council in June. The ordinance would have allowed certain approved …

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