Category: Bayonne News

Bayonne native Kenny Britt, now a star wide receiver for the Tennessee Titans, came under scrutiny last week after posting bail for a local rap artist who was recently arrested in connection with a Jersey City murder. The incident came just two days after the 21-year-old Britt, who was the first Rutgers University product to …

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Born at 4:20 p.m. at Jersey City Medical Center on Jan. 3, Jared Mungroo is the Bayonne Community News’ first baby of the year. Jared weighed in at seven pounds, one ounce and was 36.5 centimeters long, and was born to Bhola and Shama Mungroo. “We wanted a son,” said Shana during an interview last …

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The story last week in the Bayonne Community News about the death of Anton Grinkovich sparked a slew of phone calls and emails by people in every walk of life who recalled knowing him and expressed sadness at his passing. In retrospect, the question of how Grinkovich managed to make friends with Ruth Preminger – …

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When a woman called her friend Michael Ripp at home on Nov. 28 and said three men in a van had just tried to abduct her 11-year- old son, he rushed outside and saw three men in a van parked in a nearby driveway. “They looked like they were waiting for someone,” he said during …

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If Mayor Mark Smith ever needs a reminder of what he wants his administration to accomplish, he just has to look out his office window. “I grew up a few blocks from here and I went to school right across the street,” he said during an interview this week to gauge the progress of the …

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William Patrick Cofield, known locally as “Billy,” loves to tell stories. Well known for his exaggerations, Billy once – over a friendly drink at a local bar – boasted about his father, Robert Patrick Cofield, being on cover of “Time” magazine. “A man down the bar said only one man in Bayonne has even appeared …

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With some pistols wearing out and a 10-year upgrade due soon anyway, the Bayonne Police Department has asked the city to purchase 225 handguns and 42 bulletproof vests to increase the safety for men and women working as police officers in the city. Bulletproof vests, said Police Chief Robert Kubert, have to be replaced every …

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His time to leadUnion City’s Tilo Rivas named freeholder chair Al SullivanReporter staff writer If enmity existed behind the scenes, none showed at the Hudson County Freeholders reorganization meeting on Jan. 5, when Union City Freeholder Tilo Rivas was named the new chairman of the board while Jersey City Freeholder Bill O’Dea was named vice …

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Just as firefighters rescued a grandmother and her granddaughter from the cold grip of a delivery van that struck them while they were crossing Broadway Monday evening, the Bayonne Fire Department hurried a half block away to put out a two-alarm fire at 604 Broadway that displaced four families. The 46-year-old woman was crossing Broadway …

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A cold wind blew across Mill Creek on Dec. 13 as members of the American Legion Auxiliary from Bayonne stood in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Secaucus waiting for people out of New York to arrive. Roberta Buchanan, one of the auxiliary members, had chosen to drive her own car up from Wendy’s restaurant in …

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