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The students, faculty and staff at Stevens Cooperative School recently celebrated Literacy Week, an annual five day celebration of reading, writing and verbal expression. Activities included a school-wide literacy parade, “Literacy Across Languages,” Writers’ Theater, and the “Celebration of Pictures and Words.” “Illustrations are a significant component of literacy learning,” says Blair Welsh, second grade …

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Stevens director stands with victims in wake of former teacher’s sentencing on child porn charges Sergio Alati, the head of the Stevens Cooperative School, a private school with campuses in Hoboken and Jersey City, said that he and the entire school community stood with the victims of a former school employee, Guy West, who on …

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When the Mile Square Taxpayers Association, a group of developers and landlords long opposed to Hoboken’s tenant-friendly rent control codes, withdrew a legal challenge to the results of a November referendum last week, they conceded a victory to tenants who want to keep rent control in place. But it had another effect – it shined …

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The Hoboken City Council argued along its usual pro- and anti-Mayor Dawn Zimmer lines on Wednesday night, this time over an ordinance that granted a salary increase to the city’s Environmental Service Director, a position that’s currently vacant, as well as the Finance Director. The city also created the new position of Deputy Municipal Administrator. …

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Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, who made national headlines last month when she accused members of Gov. Chris Christie’s administration of threatening to withhold Sandy aid from the city unless she shepherded a development project on private land owned by the Rockefeller Group, is now questioning the forthrightness of the state’s largest public transit entity about …

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After several backup generators failed in the low-income Hoboken Housing Authority (HHA) buildings during the power outages of Hurricane Sandy, the agency was able to order 14 new ones this past fall. But record-setting cold fronts and recent snowstorms have delayed initial preparations to install them, and they are waiting in a public housing parking …

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Hoboken residents are busy people, and busy people tend not to prioritize their own well being. Too often, when faced with a bad cold or nasty cut, the response is something along the lines of, “I’ll just drink a ton of NyQuil,” or, “It’s not that deep, I’ll just stick a Band Aid on it.” …

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New Jersey filmmaker Frank Gigante and Enrico Muzzi are teaming up to film “The Other Side,” an independent project produced by Gigante’s company My Way Produzioni. The film examines racial stereotypes and how prejudices are formed, with a focus on the Italian-American culture. “The Other Side” features many New Jersey locations such as Valentino’s on …

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