Category: Bayonne News

Hailing it as part of the first wave of new residential building in Bayonne, city and county officials, business leaders, and project developers gathered at the Feb. 2 open house of the 60-unit, seven-story, Park Bayonne apartment building. The residential complex at 1040 Kennedy Blvd., the corner of 44th Street, is the newest one to …

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A state program which helps lower-income residents with their energy needs has made an impact in the year and a half it has been offered in the city, and is seeking to aid more. New Jersey Comfort Partners has assisted approximately 250 Bayonne families since July 2014, when it became available to the city, according …

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A lot on North Street vacant for five decades is being considered for a planned residential development, one that could possibly bring a few dozen units and continue the renaissance of the 8th Street area. Rich Cirminello of Barrier Electric purchased the land at 105.5 North St. in the 1990s and is hoping to develop …

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Anthem returns and is greeted with new problems Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s battered Anthem of the Seas returned to the Cape Liberty Cruise Port in Bayonne on Wednesday, Feb. 10, and encountered more public relations problems over the course of the next couple of days. After arriving back at 9 p.m. on Feb. 10, crew …

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Bayonne has embarked on a six-month project that will outline the public’s right to waterfront access, delineate what developers’ responsibilities are in providing that access, and possibly keep money for improving those areas in the city, instead of it going to the state. The city, its consultant Matrix New World Engineering, and the New Jersey …

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The blades on Bayonne’s wind turbine may soon be turning again. The apparent problem that led to the breakdown of a piece with a 20-year lifespan that died after only three years has been solved. The turbine, known as “the windmill” to many Bayonne residents, has not been working since last June when it was …

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Sometimes it’s a chance encounter at a bar; other times it’s at work. Residents of several of Hudson County’s towns talked last week about how they met. For instance, Anna and Vitaly of Bayonne, both natives of Russia, met at a regional brainstorming competition, basically a quiz game, in the Republic of North Ossetia, near …

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The Bayonne Board of Education trustees took two measures to allow talks about the teachers’ contract to continue, first invoking a doctrine of necessity at its Jan. 27 regular meeting, and then meeting with the union to allow new trustees to get up to speed on the negotiations. The doctrine of necessity resolution prevents not …

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Lesniak supporting Prieto minimum wage bill State Sen. Raymond Lesniak (D-20) on Feb. 3 announced that he will sponsor the Senate companion bill to Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto’s legislation to increase New Jersey’s minimum wage to $15 per hour. “Countless New Jerseyans are struggling financially, and falling short on making ends meet,” Lesniak said. “It’s …

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The Bayonne Board of Education is once again top of mind, as 13 people applied for two vacant board of trustee seats by the deadline last week. Both of the seats are for an interim basis, finishing out the last year of three-year terms. The seats had been held by former Board Vice President Ava …

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