Category: Bayonne News

While runoff elections might be seen as a kind of playoffs, as in baseball, few candidates are as glad to get into them as baseball players are to get into theirs. In Bayonne, two council wards will be contested in the June 15 runoff election. In the 1st Ward, Agnes Gillespie – who has the …

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Correction A brief on page 2 of last week’s newspaper inadvertently misidentified the driver in a drunk driving accident in which a Bayonne resident won a $1 million settlement. The driver was Joseph Attisano, not Carlos Attisano. Smith helps pay tribute to Bayonne Medal of Honor recipient Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith, State Sen. and Union …

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Until this week, what happened behind the closed doors of the Cal Ripken League clubhouse on May 1 was up to speculation. But after Bob DeChiaro, president of the league, filed charges against 1st Ward council candidate Tom Cotter two weeks ago, it will be up to a court to decide if Cotter assaulted DeChiaro …

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Even though the temperatures outside City Hall fell below 80 degrees Fahrenheit on May 19, the council chambers boiled as the City Council voted to approve its $134 million municipal budget, over the objections of Councilman Gary La Pelusa, who asked where exactly the city intended to get $27.5 million to fill the gap between …

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The concept – like many brilliant discoveries – is deceptively simple: human hair attracts oil. This is the reason why so many people seek oil-reducing shampoos. So with this in mind, why not use human hair to help curb the damage to natural areas resulting from oil spills? Several years ago, salon owner Mario Maiolano, …

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People more than 100 pounds overweight face some hard choices, especially when they have unsuccessfully tried traditional ways of weight reduction. They often face serious medical risks if they do not reduce, yet get frustrated by the fact that they have tried all the traditional ways and have failed. Bayonne Medical Center’s Bariatric Department is …

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“If we hurry, we can catch him,” Marvin Silber says, referring to a butterfly he sees more than 100 yards up the bicycle path in Rutkowski Park. Then he hurries in his motorized wheelchair at a speed no pedestrian on two feet can easily match. Silber patrols the Bayonne waterfront in his electric wheelchair like …

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As many as 1,000 students have passed through the doors to the veterans’ museum at the Joyce-Herbert Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 226 on West Ninth Street over the last year, and for Commander Glen J. Flora, it is not nearly enough. He says kids don’t know enough about the sacrifices American veterans have made. …

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When Ken Jones came back to Bayonne late last year to see if he and his business partner wanted to buy the former Dolphin Gym on Broadway, it was like a trip back in time. Jones, a professional body builder, gymnast, and dancer, won his first of more than 300 titles here; he was crowned …

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