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Board of Education election to be held Tuesday On Tuesday, Nov. 5 voters will go to the polls to select four trustees for the Jersey City School Board. The top three candidates to receive the most number of votes will each serve regular three-year terms on the board. There are 12 candidates running for these …
When Jersey City voters go to the polls to select four candidates for school board on Tuesday, Nov. 5, the election will be marked by several “firsts.” It will be the first school board election to be held since residents expressed support, through a non-binding referendum passed last fall, for such races to be held …
Continue reading “12 candidates vie for 3 school board seats
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About this time last year, Jersey City residents twice came together to demonstrate their love for the city and the communities in which they live: Once during the second annual Big Dig event and then again days later when Superstorm Sandy devastated the region. The hurricane, and the flooding and power outages that followed in …
Continue reading “The flowering of the city
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Last week felt like June wedding season in the Garden State as dozens of gay and lesbian couples said their “I do’s” in city halls across New Jersey. In a rare sight, City Hall in Jersey City was abuzz with activity at 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 20 as wedding cake, ice, and wine were delivered …
Continue reading “Same-sex marriages around the county
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The city insists that a major development planned for Journal Square is still on track to break ground in December, even though the administration and City Council agreed to delay the introduction of a package of tax breaks for the project. It has been nearly a year since the city Planning Board approved plans for …
Continue reading “Vote delayed on three-tower development at JSQ
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They got signed in, but never got signed out. Like the Hollywood creations “Shutter Island” and “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” Secaucus long ago also had a facility to which sane people were sometimes admitted, but were not allowed to leave. But relax; it wasn’t in the recent past. It was more like 75 …
Continue reading “Creepy history of Snake Hill
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PSE&G underground electric construction on Newark Avenue Public Service Electric and Gas Co. (PSE&G) has begun construction on Newark Avenue between Senate Place and James Street as part of the utility’s Northeast Grid Project. As part of the project, the utility will be installing a 230,000 volt (230kV) underground electric transmission circuit in Jersey City …
When Jersey City voters go to the polls to select four candidates for school board on Tuesday, Nov. 5, the election will be marked by several “firsts.” It will be the first school board election to be held since residents expressed support, through a non-binding referendum that passed last fall, for such races to be …
Continue reading “School board candidates talk priorities ahead of Nov. 5 election
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When Anna George moved to Jersey City in 2007 to join her fiancé, Chris, who had moved to Hudson County two years prior, she assumed that his friends would inevitably become hers and the two would have an active social life. While that assumption eventually proved to be true, George said it took a while …
As the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy approaches, municipalities throughout New Jersey continue to assess what they learned from that natural disaster and Hurricane Irene, which hit New Jersey in 2011. Among the health concerns that emerged from Sandy was whether older homes that became flooded posed a health risk due to the presence of …
Continue reading “City gets grant for post-Sandy lead testing
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