Category: Bayonne News

Hundreds of mourners including various Jersey City and Hudson County public officials came out on Monday to pay their final respects to the late Tom Fricchione, who passed away on Dec. 22 at his Jersey City home from natural causes at the age of 64. Fricchione was well known as a two-term city councilman, first …

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By far, the biggest story in 2009 for Bayonne came at the end of the year with the death of former Mayor Dennis Collins – although in some ways, his passing may be seen as a symbol of a changing Bayonne. While Collins’ death in December received the most notice, Bayonne lost three other prominent …

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Not the sound of Santa’s reindeer, but the grinding of gears, came with this year’s delivery of Christmas toys for Bayonne’s needy children. The U.S. Army and Reserve joined members of the Bayonne Detachment of the Marine Corps League in unloading a truckload of toys at the offices of the Bayonne Equal Opportunity Foundation on …

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Steven V. Roberts, a veteran news reporter and a native of Bayonne, walks in a mysterious world of nostalgia these days, his steps following a twilight trail that only memories can still travel. While he followed his own past in his first book, “My Father’s Houses,” Roberts’ new book follows in the steps of immigrants, …

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When workers at the Bayonne office of the state Division of Youth and Family Services say they would give blood for their clients, this time of year they literally mean it. In what has become a holiday tradition, workers at the Broadway office of DYFS rolled up their sleeves on Nov. 20 to help alleviate …

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A cold wind ripped at the Christmas decorations at Saint Mary’s Star of the Sea Church on Dec. 11, but it was not an ill wind. Cold or not, mourners wishing to pay their last respects to former Mayor Dennis Collins made their way up the steps and into the warm interior, greeted by organ …

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On a day when the temperature is possibly colder outside the Richard Korpi Ice Rink behind Bayonne High School than inside, Danny Durak and Molly Massarelli work up a sweat, running through a three-minute figure skating routine that has already placed them third in Eastern Seaboard competitions and brought them an invitation to compete in …

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Family members of 19-year-old Michael A. Wisniewski are seeking to find him. Wisniewski, a 2008 graduate of Bayonne High School, a bowling star and a baseball and basketball player in school, unexpectedly quit Kean College earlier this year and wandered off campus, his parents say. His mother, Anne Connors-Wisniewski, said she and family members grew …

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Conroy Wellington is 13 months old and came close to dying of a heart ailment. Living in Jamaica, Conroy got lucky when the Rotary Club 7490 of North Jersey heard about his case and brought him to stay in Bayonne in the fall, where he lived in preparation for lifesaving surgery. Jude Tiner, who led …

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Mayor Mark Smith said this week that he has named Fire Captain Jason O’Donnell to the newly created post of acting director of the Department of Municipal Services, pending City Council confirmation as director. Under the new four-department system that takes effect this month at City Hall, the Municipal Services Department will include the divisions …

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