Category: Bayonne News

Not a day has gone by over the last ten years that legendary Bayonne Umpire Gene Klumpp fails to acknowledge that he has been given a gift of life, recalling Sept. 6, 2003, when, standing on the pitcher’s mound, he suffered a massive heart attack. “I was getting ready to pitch when I fell over …

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What do you do when you just took one of the boldest leaps into the future that your school has even taken? You hold a tea and invite parents to tell them about it, naturally. This is exactly what Marist High School did on Aug. 27. About a year and a half ago when Alice …

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A few times a year, the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission (PVSC) helps clean up local waterways, teaming up usually with local schools or environmental groups. This year, as the area braces for yet another hurricane season, PVSC’s River Restoration unit recently completed the removal of large debris—including creosote docks and piers that dislodged from neighboring …

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Dan Bonner was in New York City one night in 2005 when he realized something wasn’t right. Although already on a list for a liver transplant, he didn’t want to bother his wife with what might not be anything. As it turned out, it was something. But it took a precarious and painful trip to …

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Avenue E fire displaces tenants On Tuesday Sep. 9 at about 3:30 p.m., the Bayonne Fire Department responded to 41 East 16th Street for a structure fire. Units confronted heavy smoke in the street and fire coming from the roof and the attic of the two-and-a half-story wood-frame building on the corner of 16th Street …

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For ten weeks, the halls of Bayonne High School were filled with the sound of hammers and saws. But a week before schools were scheduled to open on Sept. 4, these sounds were replaced by the rolling wheels of hand trucks delivering new furniture and other items to the newly constructed Arts and Scholars Academy. …

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CarePoint, a new network of three hospitals’ operations, is seeking to become a licensed provider for Medicaid in Hudson County in time to greet the flood of new patients who will require medical care starting in January 2014 when the provisions of the federal plan known as Obamacare kick in. Although people can start signing …

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While the classic 1980s “Back to the Future” movie series predicted that people would be traveling in flying cars by 2015, Hudson County from Bayonne to Guttenberg has been saddled with low-flying helicopters. Federal, state, and local officials are saying that helicopter traffic has to be restricted, not just because of the noise they make, …

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Former HFA principal passed away Sister Mary Ellen Ford, sister of St. Joseph of Chestnut, Philadelphia, died on Monday, Sept. 2 at St. Joseph Villa. Sister Mary Ellen served as principal of Holy Family Academy form 1997 to 2009, as principal of Wildwood Catholic, and prior to that as a social studies teacher at Queen …

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