Category: Bayonne News

Although school employees do not have to pay more because Bayonne Medical Center is an out of network provider with Horizon – the carrier the Bayonne School District currently has a contract with – the district faces as much as a $7 million increase in premiums. School Business Administrator Clifford Doll said Horizon is raising …

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A two-alarm fire that displaced 10 people on Feb. 24 may have started in the kitchen area, fire officials said. Eight fire vehicles and 26 firefighters responded to a three-story apartment building at 424 Avenue E to find smoke and flames gushing out the third floor window. According to Fire Chief Greg Rogers, firefighters brought …

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It was the final time that the Hudson County Interscholastic Athletic Association was holding a “Super Saturday” basketball championship bonanza, so maybe it was only fitting that the last two league championships in girls’ basketball should be captured by the school that has won the most titles and the school that went the longest without …

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Richard Casella creates a scene wherever he goes. A music scene, that is. Now he’s set his sights on Hudson County. Casella, who recently moved from Jersey City to Bayonne, is the organizer of the highly successful New York Songwriter chapter of www.meetup.com. He is looking to start a New Jersey group here in Hudson …

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Although Republican members of the House of Representatives did not support President Barack Obama’s $790 billion federal stimulus legislation last week, support from Democrats like local Rep. Albio Sires (D-13th Dist.) and other members of Congress helped pass it. Sires said the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will create or save 3.5 million …

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In an attempt to avoid a tax increase, Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise met with Hudson County Freeholders, county department heads and others seeking to generate a 10 percent cut in spending. DeGise warned county legislators and department directors that serious belt-tightening will be required during the 2009 budget process in a series of meetings …

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Because the state has delayed announcing aid to schools in the upcoming year, the Bayonne Board of Education will have to pass a budget without knowing what it will get in revenues until the day of the vote, said Board Business Administrator Clifford Doll. The $117 million budget only has accurate expenditures, not revenues, because …

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The 10th anniversary of the Bayonne Helping Hands program is being held in conjunction with a food drive in the schools to help eight food pantries that are part of the Coalition of Bayonne Food Pantries. Schools Superintendent Dr. Patricia McGeehan – with the approval of the Board of Education – said the schools are …

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Bayonne residents will get to speak out on proposed names for new streets at the Feb. 18 City Council meeting. The proposed names – which were put on the agenda for public hearing at the Feb. 11 caucus – would seek to retain some of the memories of the former Military Ocean Terminal from when …

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