Category: Jersey City News

Epps apologizes for comment about schoolgirls Jersey City Schools Superintendent Charles Epps told a group of pastors gathered in Jersey City last week that female students were the reason the school system spends $1 million on police and security personnel. The web site NJ.com quoted Epps as saying that “Our worst enemy is the young …

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In recent weeks city residents have been the targets of a media war waged by both supporters and opponents of a proposed natural gas pipeline that is currently planned to be routed through Bayonne and Jersey City and near the southern border of Hoboken. In one corner is Spectra Energy, the Houston-based company that wants …

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The Washington Park Association of Hudson County recently received a $20,000 grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation to install a “permaculture learning garden and apprenticeship program” this year. The 22-acre park they oversee, located on the border of Jersey City and Union City, is part of the Hudson County park system. Here’s a 101 …

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Jersey City native Sam Cintron has lived an interesting life. He was born in Christ Hospital in Jersey City but at age 9, the family picked up and moved to Guatemala. His father was a Christian missionary and wanted to help the victims of the 1976 earthquake. Both parents are of Puerto Rican descent. His …

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When Cheng Tan appears before the Jersey City Planning Board this week, it’ll be like déjà vu all over again. A year ago, the city passed a zoning amendment that would allow him to build five stories on the property where his bar currently lies. But he had hoped to erect an eight-story, mixed-use residential …

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Carbon monoxide is culprit in at least two deaths at JC apt. building A 24-year-old woman, Rosario Ferraras-Matos, was found dead in her studio apartment at 446 Baldwin Ave. in Jersey City on April 4. Tenants told fire officials that she was the third person to die at the building in the past year. According …

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Agreeing that administrative expenses are too high and budget expenses should be concentrated on classroom instruction, the 10 candidates running for the Jersey City Board of Education participated in the first of two public forums Wednesday. Voters will have the opportunity to select three board representatives on Wednesday, April 27 to replace Sue Mack and …

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Actress Tammy Blanchard was born in Jersey City. She now lives in Bayonne with her 3-year-old daughter, and prefers the local vibe to the one in Los Angeles where her work sometimes takes her. She laughs when asked why she doesn’t spend more time on the West Coast. “I’m doing it my way,” she says, …

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