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Mayoral critic Mason elected council prez
City debates budget, fees at long meeting

The effects of the new City Council alignment have already begun to reverberate up the walls of City Hall to the desk of Mayor Dawn Zimmer. The mayor’s critics are now in charge of the nine-member legislative body. After Councilwoman Beth Mason and Councilman Michael Russo – both critics of Zimmer – were elected and …

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Fight for freedom
Son shares father’s gripping tale of Holocaust

Hoboken’s leafy squares, bustling shops, and friendly neighborhoods couldn’t be further from a place called Terezin: a grim, bricked fortress northwest of Prague where the Gestapo set up a concentration camp for Jews. Many of them were transported from there to the ovens of Auschwitz during World War II. Manfred Gans experienced both extremes. _____________ …

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This space could be yours
Local organizations invited to add murals to high school lockers

Starting this year, the rows of gray lockers at Hoboken High School will be covered with stories of Hoboken. A short time ago, Interim Prinicpal Al Joy read a brochure for LockerSkins by SchoolWhip. LockerSkins are designs that cover school lockers with photos, memories, or in some cases, student drawings. “It’s a way of not …

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HOBOKEN BRIEFS

Special City Council meeting to be held on Monday, Jan. 10 The city of Hoboken will hold a special council meeting on Monday evening at 8 p.m. at City Hall, 94 Washington St. Since the council failed to pass temporary budget appropriations at the Jan. 5 meeting. A special session was called after Mayor Dawn …

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Ten big stories this year
Terror, hospital privatization, and budget cuts hit home

Hudson County was a focal point for many of the state’s biggest stories this year. Even though our Year in Review issue contains rundowns of politics, development, business, and sports, there were several big events that fell into other categories as well. Here are, in no particular order, 10 big stories that hit Hudson County …

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BRIEFS

About this special ‘Year in Review’ issue This special “Year in Review” issue of the Hudson Reporter newspaper replaces your regular weekly editions in Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken, Secaucus, North Bergen, Union City, West New York, and Guttenberg for Sunday, Dec. 26. Next week, we will publish a special “Year in Pictures” edition for Jan. …

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Oh, what a political year it has been!
Christie changed dynamic even for local elections

If anyone deserves to be named political man of the year for Hudson County, it must be Republican Gov. Christopher Christie. His changes on the state level after he was sworn in early this year will have an indelible impact on the future of local government and local politics. Cuts in state aid to schools …

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The year in development
New parks, apartments leading into 2011

Many large residential development projects were started and completed in Hudson County during the economic boom at the beginning of the last decade, and now, smaller projects are filling in the remaining gaps. Even in a slow economy, the county’s proximity to New York City means people will always want to live here, even if …

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New parks, apartments leading into 2011

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