Category: Bayonne News

To say the creations of the two-woman team called “Rubella” are new would be a distortion, since what they use to create their brand of jewelry comes out of the historic past, antiques of bygone eras used in innovative ways. Even the name is something recycled, a song title from the Smoking Popes’ song from …

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Good news about UEZ? Funds from the city’s Urban Enterprise Zone may be restored next year, but with some restrictions, Chief Finance Officer Terrence Malloy told the “Bayonne Community News” this week. Malloy said Christie’s public statements seem to indicate that the city can look forward to the restored funding after the state drained the …

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With the city on the brink of possible economic disaster, members of the Bayonne Local Development Authority voted on July 29 for what they say is the best deal they could get for development property they want to sell. They agreed to a $235 million contract to sell to the Port Authority approximately 130 acres …

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Some Bayonne students attended summer school this year not to make up for work they didn’t do, but to get ahead for next year and years afterwards. The Bayonne School District Proyecto Science Consortium Program is an academically intense, five-week long science, mathematics, and technology program for elementary students. It takes place at New Jersey …

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Saying it should address city business first, Bayonne City Council voted to move the public comment period to the end of its meeting, ending a tradition largely unique to Bayonne that had allowed residents five minutes at the beginning of each meeting to make statements on any subject. Residents will still be able to speak …

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Hunger, like rust, never sleeps. This is part of the reason why the staff at the Assumption Church Food Pantry in Bayonne was so grateful when Jason Klask, a porter for Bayonne Medical Center’s Food and Nutrition Department, lugged in almost 40 cases of food. The items were donated by the hospital in order to …

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Historic stained glass windows featured in new book The windows at St. Vincent de Paul Church in Bayonne are featured in a recently published book entitled “Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke.” “You could look at a Clarke window time after time and still not see every beautiful detail. There is so much …

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Committee people from the 31st Legislative District voted on July 26 to appoint Jason O’Donnell to fill the state Assembly seat vacated by the resignation of Anthony Chiappone earlier this month. Chiappone resigned on July 16 after pleading guilty for misdirecting aide funds to his campaign account in 2005. This left committee people from Jersey …

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The city of Bayonne is shuffling to deal with outstanding money it needs to fill its budget for the recently completed fiscal year, and is also scheduled to vote this week on whether to borrow money for the new fiscal year until certain funds can be received. This Wednesday, July 28, the City Council will …

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