Category: Bayonne News

Days before the first day of school on Sept. 9, All Saints Academy Principal Sister Eileen Wust scrambled with last-minute details, such as moving her office down the hall from the front of the building. It was one of many small adjustments the school is making as a result of lessons learned from its first …

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Rep. Albio Sires came to Bayonne on Aug. 6 bearing a $600,000 check from the U.S. Department of Justice that will help complete an upgrade to the city’s already state-of-the-art communication center. This is the third stage of a project that has been planned since 2000, but incorporates many of the lessons learned during the …

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Former Hudson County 911 Coordinator and Bayonne 1st Ward Councilman Theodore Connolly filed a lawsuit on Sept. 2 against Hudson County Sheriff Juan M. Perez and aide Robert Knapp, alleging intentional discrimination and retaliation. The case was filed in U.S. District Court, Newark. Connolly alleges that managerial employees, including those encouraged by Perez and Knapp, …

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Bayonne Mayor Mark Smith has asked the Bayonne Local Redevelopment Authority and the Bayonne City Council to support a $23 million state loan for the Bayonne Crossing Mall, which may begin construction by the end of this year. Smith also pleaded his case before the Hudson County Freeholders at a special meeting on Aug. 25. …

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A day before he was indicted on charges that he and his wife steered money from legislative aides to his campaign and personal bank accounts, 31st District Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone – who represents Bayonne and part of Jersey City – met with investigators from the state Attorney General’s office. “We went over everything and I …

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Bayonne’s public schools open with a bang on Sept. 9 as the school district finishes work on various projects and introduces innovative programs for the new school year. Last March, Gov. Jon Corzine came to Bayonne to launch a statewide program for upgrading aging schools, a significant problem because some schools are almost 100 years …

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For a greater part of four decades, even a stranger could tell the ethnic makeup of a neighborhood along Bayonne’s east side just by listening to James Hennessey sing. He would sing or whistle along his route, often reflecting the neighborhood he was in by singing songs connected to the ethnicity of the people living …

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Saying he will try and build on the successes already accomplished, Dr. Mark Spektor took over as medical director of the Bayonne Medical Center Emergency Room on Sept. 1. Dr. Spektor comes to Bayonne from Maimonides Medical Center, a large tertiary care, teaching hospital in Brooklyn, where he was the medical director of the Department …

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Commander Glen J. Flora moves through the veterans’ meeting hall with quiet reverence, walls lined with the memorabilia from generations of American conflicts. “This place is like a chapel,” he said. “Some veterans just come here and sit. Some even cry.” Even with people crowding the other rooms of the Joyce-Herbert Veterans of Foreign Wars …

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Dr. Salvatore La Pilusa passed away last week, leaving behind a legacy of altruism and goodwill. “Bayonne lost an icon and ambassador of goodwill to the world with the passing of Dr. La Pilusa,” said Mayor Mark Smith. “His tireless efforts to help his fellow man and make the world a better place are a …

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