Category: Bayonne News

Many probably consider it an innocuous practice; instead of finding a nearby trash can, tossing garbage into a sewer catch basin. But Bayonne Municipal Utilities Authority Executive Director Tim Boyle says that this practice repeated time and again can have dire effects for the city. Boyle is asking for the help of Bayonne residents, workers, …

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Two hundred people attend city health fair About 125 people received health care screenings during the city of Bayonne’s health fair on Thursday, Oct. 15 in Fitzpatrick Park, across from City Hall. “We had approximately 200 people walk through, which is wonderful for a midday venue during the work and school week,” said Suzanne Cavanaugh, …

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At the Bayonne Golf Club on Oct. 6, city officials, developers, lawyers, and representatives from transportation and utilities met to discuss development plans for the Peninsula at Bayonne Harbor, the manmade tract of land jutting out into Upper New York Bay. The meeting site was appropriate, with spectacular views of the former Military Ocean Terminal, …

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Bayonne voters go to the polls on Nov. 3 for the first time in 35 years to vote for Board of Education trustees. Bayonne’s mayor had appointed all school board members until a public referendum last November changed that. Each year three board of trustee members are to be elected to three-year terms. But 2015 …

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Two dogs were sweltering in a car in 90-degree temperatures in a parking lot in Secaucus until someone reported their owner. Five dogs were killed after someone allegedly fed them liverwurst laced with antifreeze. A cat’s collar was embedded so deeply into its skin that it died from maggots and other insects eating it alive. …

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Despite disgruntled union leadership, Bayonne has settled with city employees on a five-and-a-half-year contract, ending a 15-month stalemate, city and union officials announced last week. The 240 members of American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 2261 have been working without a contract since July 1 of last year. The agreement covers …

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Kopko & Chiaravalloti disagree about Chiaravalloti’s past ineligibility Nicholas Chiaravalloti and Matt Kopko, Democratic and Republican candidates, respectively, battling for one of two Assembly seats in the state’s 31st Legislative District, have offered differing viewpoints about Kopko’s publicizing of Chiaravalloti’s being listed as one of the administratively ineligible attorneys from October of last year to …

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The completion of the Bayonne Bridge “Raise the Roadway” project will now take until mid-2019 and could result in additional costs of up to 15 percent, the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey announced in a public statement on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Bayonne city officials were informed about the delays during a meeting …

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A local theater group is doing more than teaching its young members about singing, dancing, and acting, it is teaching them about life. That’s the goal of The Artists Avenue of Bayonne, which teaches children 8 to 17 years old about the performing arts, casting them in musicals and shepherding them through to a final …

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Gearing up for the first Bayonne Board of Education Trustees election in 35 years, candidates pleaded their cases for votes and discussed their visions for the school district at a Rotary Club of Bayonne forum. Their speeches touched on a number of topics, including the millions of dollars in allegedly missing capital reimbursement money, how …

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