Category: Jersey City News

Where else can you find a tiger, a racing pig, a hypnotist and Batman? It could only be the State Fair Meadowlands, which promises to keep patrons entertained, well-fed, and thrilled with 150 rides and attractions and over 50 food vendors daily from June 24 thru July 10. What once took place on only six …

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Did former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell accept a bribe to help a developer move a project along, or was he just entertaining a potential campaign contributor who might invest in his town? A jury considered this question last week during the bribery and extortion trial of the former mayor, who was one of 46 politicians …

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Holiday Hudson Reporter editorial and advertising deadlines The Hudson Reporter newspapers will be closed on Monday, July 4. Thus, some of the Hudson Reporter newspapers will have special advertising deadlines. For the Wednesday July 6 edition of the Bayonne Community News, the display ad deadline is 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 30. The classified deadline …

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The anticipated Jersey City Board of Education discussion about Schools Superintendent Dr. Charles Epps was scrapped from last week’s school board agenda at the eleventh hour. But in the days leading up to the June 16 meeting, parents who’d like to see the superintendent replaced circulated e-mails to build a strong showing at the meeting …

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Sept. 20, 2009 proved to be a pivotal day for two New Jersey men who will never meet, but whose lives will forever be intertwined. That day, Jersey City native Edward Cummings received a phone call that an organ donor from the New Jersey donor and tissue registry was a match for him, and had …

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Hudson Hospice Volunteers of Jersey City is a non-profit organization that offers compassion, care, and respite for families dealing with a relative afflicted with either a curable disease or a terminal illness. A hospice volunteer is someone who talks to a patient to minimize the suffering and help them approach that final moment with dignity. …

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Three months of work for 45 students of the Our Lady of Czestochowa School in Jersey City culminated on May 21 when they launched a rowboat they built into the harbor off Liberty State Park. Principal Anna Mae Stefanelli said the boat project combined learning the necessary engineering, math and science for building the vessel …

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9-year-old student to donate $1,000 Anyone who has attended Jersey City Council meetings in recent months is familiar with 9-year-old Paul Valleau and his impassioned pleas to keep funding intact for the local public libraries. Now, apparently the budding activist has taken his cause to the next level: fundraising. Valleau has already donated $2,000 to …

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For the second time in recent weeks, a proposal by Councilman Steven Fulop has blindsided staffers at the city’s Division of Cultural Affairs who would be affected by it. On Tuesday Fulop announced, along with Councilwoman Nidia Lopez, plans to introduce resolutions to consolidate two city departments with their counterparts at the county level. But …

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“Are you interested in films?” Bob Martin of the Garden State Theater Organ Society asked a woman as she stopped at his table at this year’s Volunteer Expo at the Loew’s Jersey Theater in Jersey City on April 26. The eight-hour-long event was designed to bring together potential volunteers for not-for-profit organizations, which always need …

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