Category: Bayonne News

In the end, it wasn’t the slam dunk residents had hoped for: the stabilization of taxes that Mayor James Davis and his council slate had campaigned on during last year’s municipal elections. But it also wasn’t the Armageddon some had predicted: a double-digit jump in taxes. So without fanfare – and with no comment from …

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It was a red, white, and blue Thursday night, July 2, as Bayonne ushered in the Fourth of July weekend early with fireworks, music, and family fun. The city joined county neighbors Secaucus and Union City with its own early annual celebration of American Independence on the lower level of DiDomenico-16th Street Park, between Avenue …

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Plans for a half billion dollar residential development at the site of the former Texaco Chevron plant at the southwest corner of the city may soon see the light of day, now that remediation work is complete on the first of four possible phases, a development company spokesman and city officials say. The first phase …

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After more than three decades and three rounds of governmental edicts, Bayonne is on the cusp of filing documents to determine its New Jersey affordable housing unit requirements and find out how close it is to complying with that figure. That’s the word from Brian Slaugh of Clarke Caton Hintz architectural planning firm in Trenton …

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Mid-summer night art at Hendrickson’s “A Mid-summer Night’s Art Gallery,” a free, two-day exhibition of diverse media, will be presented at Hendrickson’s Corner, 671 Broadway, the corner of 31st street, 2nd floor, on Saturday, July 11 and Sunday, July 12. Fourteen professional artists from the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area will be showing their work …

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Swept into office in June last year by voters seeking a change in city government, Mayor James Davis is still benefiting from a tide of goodwill, but with his learning curve over, residents want results. He’s had successes and challenges. Supporters point to the settling of the years-long teacher contract, the settling of three lawsuits …

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About 250 city employees have been working without a contract for a year, and with six months of talks between Bayonne officials and union leaders going nowhere, an impasse has been declared and the state has named a mediator. The members of the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 2261 have …

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Since the recession, more animals have ended up abandoned and more are awaiting adoption in local facilities. Some towns have started their own adoption locations in the last few years to give their local pets a home. In North Hudson, husband and wife Miguel Fernandez and Mercedes Garcia of Union City, heads of Tuesday & …

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Dozens of union laborers cheered when the Bayonne City Council unanimously passed a resolution in favor of the city project labor agreement at the council’s recent meeting. The resolution authorized Mayor James Davis and City Clerk Robert Sloan to sign the 48-page pact that pledges that the city would use union labor on city projects …

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Agreement on Wepner mural snafu coming The manager of the department responsible for commissioning and then affixing a mural of Chuck Wepner to the side of a midtown building without the owner’s permission said the city is working to fix the problem. “A resolution is on the way,” said Samantha Howard, assistant director of the …

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