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Council runoff election on June 11 Jersey City residents are encouraged to vote this Tuesday, June 11, in the City Council runoff election. Residents throughout the city will be asked to again cast ballots for three at-large City Council representatives, since no at-large candidate met the required vote threshold needed to win the election on …
If there is one thing the two main mayoral campaigns agree on it is this: there will be runoffs after Election Day, Tuesday, May 14, most likely in some of the city’s six wards. Hard campaigning among several unaffiliated independent candidates is apparently eating into the voting bases of candidates on the slates headed by …
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At press time on May 3, some Jersey City education advocates were gearing up for a planned town hall meeting on education on Saturday, May 4. Billed as the Town Hall Meeting on Education Issues and Solutions, the community event will address a number of educational issues, including a discussion on whether underperforming schools in …
Continue reading “What path for ‘underperforming’ schools?
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About five years ago, when a city budget crisis forced layoffs and furloughs of municipal workers and cuts in city services, the Jersey City Free Public Library also became a casualty of the Great Recession. At the time, the budget crisis forced the library to close local branches and reduce branch hours, and jeopardized the …
Continue reading “Voice for ‘The People’s U’ lost
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Every year, usually around the holidays, local shelters and volunteer groups make a request for donations of “gently used” clothing for the city’s homeless population. Despite their pleas, however, what they get from the community can include everything from brand new to “ready for the trash can.” Believing that everyone deserves warm clothing that has …
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In the most densely populated city in America, open space has always come at a premium. Union City is not known for its parks, nor for its athletic facilities, but one of those things will change in the coming months, as the city plans to move forward with a $6.5 million renovation of its section …
Continue reading “Questions surface over Washington Park project
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JCPD seeks help in downtown hit and run The Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) is seeking help in finding the driver of a silver Jeep Cherokee who allegedly hit a man at Monmouth Avenue and Second Street at around 3:37 a.m. on the morning of Saturday, April 27. Witnesses were able to get a partial …
In January, Ward F City Councilwoman Diane Coleman stood before a crowd of 250 or so supporters as Team Fulop opened its campaign headquarters at 2175 Kennedy Blvd. “Anyone who knows Steve Fulop knows that if he is elected mayor, you can expect him to be involved,” Coleman told the crowd. “And not just involved, …
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A public playground that was closed by city officials nearly a year ago for environmental remediation remains closed and may not be reopened for several more weeks, even as warm weather and peak playground season roll in. The closure will further delay planned renovations for the playground that residents thought would be completed last fall. …
Continue reading “Environmental clean-up at Benson Park enters new phase
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Any day now, spring will stop toying with our emotions and will actually hang around for a while. And when that happens, everyone is going to come out of hibernation with a hankering for lemonade, gelato, and home baked organic sweets. Fortunately for local residents, with spring comes Jersey City’s eight farmers’ markets, each with …
Continue reading “Eat your (healthy) heart out, JC!
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