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Donate food by leaving it at your mailbox
Campbell soup teams up with mail carriers to help the hungry

On Saturday, May 9, people in many communities in the country will have an opportunity to help local food pantries as Campbell Soup Company and the National Association of Letter Carriers join forces to stamp out hunger. This is the nation’s largest one-day food drive, in which people can leave nonperishable food items at their …

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Parlez vous francais?
Hudson School hosts French kids, brings in chef

Eleven students from France wrapped up their two-week stay in Hoboken last week. The students stayed with Hudson School families, visited area tourist attractions, and were treated to a cooking demonstration from French-schooled chef Jim Hamilton. The Hudson School, 601 Park Ave., is private school teaching grades five through 12. Welcome to Hoboken Three of …

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HOBOKEN BRIEFS
5/3/09

BOE approves layoffs, appoints new prez The new Board of Education met for the first time last week and elected board member Rosemarie Markle their board president. Outgoing president Frances Rhodes-Kearns nominated Markle, saying that years ago Markle was PTO president at Brandt School she passed the torch to Rhodes-Kearns. Now Rhodes-Kearns returned the favor. …

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Moms take over school board
Raia: ‘Town is way out of whack’

Three Hoboken moms who have challenged the school administration on several fronts were elected to the Board of Education on Tuesday night. The school budget also passed by a slim margin. Incumbent Theresa Minutillo earned another three years on the board, and Maureen Sullivan avenged a school board loss in 2008. Newcomer Ruth McAllister rounded …

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They don’t need no stinkin’ slates!
Profiles of Hoboken’s three independent mayoral candidates

In 1985, reform Councilman Thomas Vezzetti challenged the system. Vezzetti ran around Hoboken with his bullhorn and urged people to unseat four-term Mayor Steve Cappiello. The eccentric Vezzetti became a lightning rod in a storm of political change. Many people were fed up with climbing rents and condo conversions in Hoboken, and by a slim …

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Keeping them off the streets
Jubilee Center, which helps kids in the projects, loses funding

At the Jubilee Center on Jackson Street, kids who live in Hoboken Housing Authority projects can have a snack after school, do their homework, and learn how to cook. The center gives children from kindergarten to sixth grade a place to go instead of roaming the streets. Unfortunately, the safe haven lost $250,000 in state …

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Reporter chain wins statewide awards
Newspapers honored for investigative reporting, graphics, photos, ads

The Garden State Journalists Association announced last week that the Hudson Reporter newspaper chain won six awards for its stories and photographs published in 2009, most notably the Hildy Johnson award for “story of the year” and several first-place photography awards. In addition, this past February, the New Jersey Press Association gave five awards to …

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HOBOKEN BRIEFS
4/26/09

Mayoral candidate forum All six candidates for mayor will participate in a public forum on Tuesday, April 28 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Dubbed the “Mayoralty Candidates’ Forum,” the event will take place in the auditorium of Our Lady of Grace School on Willow Avenue at Fifth Street. The forum is sponsored by People …

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City vehicle policy changed
OEM official racked up over 30 parking tickets

The city’s deputy coordinator of the Office of Emergency Management, Joel Mestre, racked up 31 unpaid parking tickets in Hoboken between 2006 and 2008 and was asked by the city a week ago to pay the ones that were not dismissed in court. In addition to the local tickets, Mestre was also ticketed three times …

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