Category: Jersey City News

The city has hit a snag in its efforts to close its public Preventative Medicine Clinic and shift services to Horizon Health Center. The clinic tests and treats residents for sexually transmitted diseases. The state Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has yet to approve a sexually transmitted disease (STD) grant application for Horizon …

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At the healthy young age of 26, Daryl Cahill should be in the prime of his life. Ideally, the Jersey City native should be devoting 40 hours a week to some vocational pursuit that will become his life’s work. Instead, Cahill, who lives with an aunt near Pavonia Avenue in the Journal Square neighborhood, spends …

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A divided Jersey City Council has approved a controversial package of tax breaks for Goya Foods, Inc., the Secaucus-based Latin food manufacturer that plans to build a new facility in Jersey City. The city’s handout to Goya has angered some residents because it comes on top of $81.9 million in tax breaks that the company …

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In other election news… While the results of the City Council at-large election was the big Election Day news in Jersey City, local voters also cast ballots in state legislative races. Each state district has one state senator and two Assembly representatives. In the 31st District, state Sen. Sandra Bolden Cunningham (D-Jersey City) defeated Republican …

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Jersey City Parks Coalition member Charlene Burke had an idea as she watched a group of youngsters plant the children’s garden outside City Hall last spring. “I was thinking to myself, ‘Wow, what a great event it is to beautify an area that otherwise is just a lawn’,” said Burke. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be …

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Giving the clearest message to date that Jersey City will go to court to block a controversial natural gas pipeline that could be routed through the city, Mayor Jerramiah T. Healy went on record last week stating his intentions. Describing the city’s fight against Spectra Energy as a “David and Goliath-type battle,” Healy said that …

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Candidates for two at-large City Council seats made a final appeal for votes Wednesday at a community forum sponsored by the Downtown Coalition of Neighborhood Associations. Twelve of the 17 candidates on the ballot participated. Candidates Adela Rohena, Jamie Vasquez, Nabil Yousef, Richard Boggiano, Daniel Levin, Suzanne “Sue” Mack, Ihor Ed Ciolko, Omar Perez, Rolando …

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The Museum of Russian Art in downtown Jersey City is holding an exhibition of Oksana Prokopenko’s work from Nov. 12 to 20. The opening reception is from 5 to 7 p.m. on Nov. 12. The museum will feature mixed media and glass micro-mosaics of the artist, who has a background in iconography, the painting of …

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