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Oh, what a political year it has been!
Christie changed dynamic even for local elections

If anyone deserves to be named political man of the year for Hudson County, it must be Republican Gov. Christopher Christie. His changes on the state level after he was sworn in early this year will have an indelible impact on the future of local government and local politics. Cuts in state aid to schools …

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About this special ‘Year in Review’ issue This special “Year in Review” issue of the Hudson Reporter newspaper replaces your regular weekly editions in Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken, Secaucus, North Bergen, Union City, West New York, and Guttenberg for Sunday, Dec. 26. Next week, we will publish a special “Year in Pictures” edition for Jan. …

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Ten big stories this year
Terror, hospital privatization, and budget cuts hit home

E. Assata WrightReporter staff writer Hudson County was a focal point for many of the state’s biggest stories this year. Even though our Year in Review issue contains rundowns of politics, development, business, and sports, there were several big events that fell into other categories as well. Here are, in no particular order, 10 big …

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The year in development
New parks, apartments leading into 2011

Many large residential development projects were started and completed in Hudson County during the economic boom at the beginning of the last decade, and now, smaller projects are filling in the remaining gaps. Even in a slow economy, the county’s proximity to New York City means people will always want to live here, even if …

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There’s no business like Hudson County business
Even in down economy, new malls, stores, eateries rise

Despite a slow economy, Hudson County towns saw a number of new businesses and even new shopping areas in 2010, from a mall in Bayonne to major chain stores in North Bergen. Restaurants, companies and supermarkets dotted the landscape. The Hudson County Economic Development Corporation’s 2010 Demographic Profile projects that from 2004 to 2014, the …

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2010: A Hall of a year for Hurley
Track state champs also head Hudson’s Top 10 Sports Stories

The sports calendar year of 2010 in Hudson County brought some exciting moments, some heart-wrenching times, some once-in-a-lifetime memories and some national headlines. Here’s a look at the Top 10 Sports Stories of the Year in Hudson County for 2010. 1-Hurley inducted into Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame It started becoming news in April …

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The arts year in review
Hudson County was alive with the sound of music, the sight of art

When it comes to the arts, Hudson County doesn’t stare wistfully across the river at its culturally-hopping New York City neighbor. That’s because Hoboken and Jersey City as well as “NoHu” (North Hudson) towns like Union City and West New York house plenty of homegrown talent – as well as expatriates from Manhattan. In 2010, …

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Was school superintendent vote illegal?
Fulop’s lawsuit to be heard by judge next month

Did the Jersey City Board of Education violate state law last summer when it voted to give Superintendent of Schools Dr. Charles Epps a two-year contract extension? A court will decide next month. On Jan. 25, a hearing will be held in the state’s Office of Administrative Law in Newark about a complaint that the …

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Theater group survives the years
Jersey City’s Attic Ensemble marks 40th season

What started as a venture by St. Peter’s College graduates in the early 1970s is now the oldest theater company in Jersey City. The Attic Ensemble is marking its 40th season with four productions of high profile plays spanning from this past fall to next spring, staged at their home base in the Barrow Mansion …

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Disinherited and banned from history
Local German industrial heiress is subject of new book

Bertha Arnold lived a quiet life in Jersey City from the time she emigrated from her native Germany with her three sons in 1883 to the time of her death in 1911 at age 59. But her local neighbors and even some of her family members didn’t know about her background: She was actually Engelbertha …

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