Category: Bayonne News

Action by the Bayonne City Council on Feb. 17 will likely save the historic Atlas Yacht Club near Fifth Street, and is also expected to bring significant revenue to the city from the sale of unused land nearby. The council voted to ratify the actions of Mayor Mark Smith by formalizing an agreement with the …

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Gov. Christopher Christie recently told municipalities that he intends to drain the state’s Urban Enterprise Zone accounts to help balance the $29.8 billion state budget. The UEZ is a program in which the state designates business zones of cities so that they can charge only 3.5 percent sales tax to attract customers. And the tax …

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On the night before she was scheduled to fly down to Haiti to help in a clinic there, Kristy Schmicking took a break from packing and had dinner with her family at San Vito Restaurant. The owner, who knew of her previous trips to places like Guatemala, jokingly asked, “Hey doll, where you off to …

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The old adage that when life hands you lemons, you should make lemonade pertains very much to the state of the county this year as county officials hunker down in bad economic times. In comments during his State of the County address given last month, County Executive Tom DeGise emphasized practical ways the county is …

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Once touted as a possible developer for all 432 acres of the former Military Ocean Terminal of Bayonne (MOTBY), Fidelco Bayonne HSN, LLC will step aside to make way for a new proposed development for the Harbor Station district, one of the districts in what will be known as the Peninsula development. Fidelco’s removal from …

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Even when empty, the cafeteria at All Saints Catholic Academy echoes with voices. Although these are the voices of students and teachers elsewhere in the school, you can’t help imagine them as the spirits of students from the past. A classic post-World War II structure, the school – formerly known as Saint Mary’s, Star of …

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Long before Eddie O’Rourke of Bayonne became an Elvis Presley tribute artist, he was performing a gig at a military base where he was stationed when a man came up to him and said he liked the way O’Rourke played. “He said his father played guitar, too,” O’Rourke recalled. “When I asked him who is …

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