Category: Jersey City News

The Jersey City school district is still investigating allegations that the grades of some Lincoln High School athletes were fixed to allow them to remain eligible to play, allegations that resulted in the removal of the school’s principal and three staff members a week ago Friday. Members of the public at Thursday’s Board of Education …

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Downtown Jersey City resident Peter O’Reilly says although he feels safe living in the Paulus Hook area with his wife and two kids, he is concerned that crime statistics show an increase, rather than the decrease that city officials touted last year. O’Reilly has closely studied the arrest data in the Jersey City Police Department’s …

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Want to share your favorite soup for a good cause? Then the fifth annual Great Jersey City Soup Swap is worth checking out today (Sunday, Jan.23). The annual event is being held at Made With Love Organic Artisan Bakery and Café on Jersey Avenue in downtown Jersey City. It will start at 3:30 p.m. with …

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When Dennis Doran entered North Korea on vacation last summer, he was told to give up his cell phone. Doran, who lives in the city’s Bergen Hill area outside Journal Square, visited one of the most secretive and isolated countries in the world in August. He witnessed people bowing to statues of Kim-Il Sung; he …

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JC man charged in stabbing of wife and four kids A Jersey City man was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the stabbings of his wife and his four children inside their Rutgers Avenue apartment, according to Deputy Police Chief Peter Nalbach. Nalbach said on Wednesday that Jai D. Finley, 41, was charged in the …

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The massive snowstorms that have hit Jersey City may be a sign of bigger things to come this winter. Last week’s snow added eight inches to mounds of remaining snow from the December blizzard – and some residents think it may never get removed. Earl (who did not want last name used) is a downtown …

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Jersey City charter school students and their parents filled Wednesday’s City Council meeting to support a resolution calling for the state to pay the full amount of legally allowed funding for those schools. Charter schools in New Jersey are supposed to receive state funding equal to 90 percent of what local public schools receive. But …

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The Civil War still resonates in Hudson County in 2011, 150 years after it began. In the Historic Jersey City and Harsimus Cemetery and Memorial Park on Newark Avenue, Jersey City native James Madden sees reminders of the conflict on the 300 gravestones of soldiers who served in the various Union forces. And the memory …

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