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Nurses and health care workers voted on Monday to authorize strikes at three hospitals represented by the Health Professionals and Allied Employees (HPAE/AFT/AFL-CIO) in Hudson County, and a fourth hospital may be affected. Members of HPAE, including registered nurses, health professionals, and dietary, housekeeping, and maintenance staff, voted at all-day meetings at Christ Hospital in …

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After 45 years in the priesthood, Rev. Robert Antczak has seen some dramatic changes in the Roman Catholic Church – including the premature predictions by some that the church is fading away. Now, on the verge of retiring, Antczak looks back and concludes the role of the church might be changing, but it still has …

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The Marine Corps League has selected Herman Shanker as the 2009 honoree to receive the Lance/Corporal Stanley J. Kopcinski Memorial Award. The league began this award in 1967 to honor the memory of the first Bayonne marine killed in combat in Vietnam on May 14, 1966. The Marines present the award each year following the …

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“Practically everybody in the world has heard of the Holocaust. Schools everywhere teach students of all ages about the Holocaust – in English, Spanish, Japanese, and in any language known in any country with a school. Textbooks make the topic just like any other – wordy, filled with all sorts of names, dates, and vocabulary, …

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With nearby New York City reporting its first confirmed death as a result of H1N1 Influenza (Swine Flu) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta reporting more than 18 confirmed and probable cases in New Jersey in May, Assembly members Joan Quigley (D-32nd Dist.) and Anthony Chiappone (D-31st Dist.) issued a joint …

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In an intense behind-the-scenes battle for control of the City Council, Mayor Mark Smith secured a voting majority to pick town Postmaster Terrence Ruane for a council seat at the May 6 meeting. Smith himself cast the deciding vote. Backed by attorney Herb Klitzner of Chasan Leyner & Lamparello, a powerful political firm connected to …

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In a statement made after Mayor Mark Smith cast the deciding vote to make him a City Council member, Terrence Ruane said he sought the position because he cared about the city and was concerned about rising taxes. “This is my opportunity to defend and protect all that I love about Bayonne,” he said. “I …

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In what appears to be a massive restructuring of municipal government, Business Administrator Peter Cresci and City Law Director Jay Coffey have been removed from their positions with the city of Bayonne. The move came the first business day after the City Council named Terrence Ruane to fill the seat vacated by Anthony Chiappone. Coffey …

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Although clouds shed an occasional shadow over this year’s fifth annual Urban Enterprise Zone festival, thousands turned out. Terrence Malloy, director of the Bayonne UEZ, said as many as 5,000 people came to join in the festivities held in the municipal parking lot on Del Monte Drive. The event is among a series of public …

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