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The Department of Public Works employees facing layoffs will have to wait at least another month for the City Council to vote on the merger between their department and the Jersey City Incinerator Authority. The consolidation has been proposed by Mayor Jerramiah Healy to save an estimated $5 million because the city is anticipating an …

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Jury in Smith trial acquits him of all charges The jury in the trial of former state Assemblyman and Jersey City Councilman L. Harvey Smith acquitted him on Thursday on six counts of bribery in federal court in Newark. Smith was accused of taking $15,000 from government informant Solomon Dwek to help him get approvals …

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Jacqueline Reyes has long been laid to rest, but her murder still haunts her family and fellow tenants living in the Montgomery Street building where she died on Dec. 8, 2009. Reyes was stabbed to death in her apartment in the Paulus Hook Towers at 100 Montgomery St. that day in a robbery gone bad. …

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While a former assemblyman became the latest local politician to stand trial last week as one of dozens of local politicians caught in a political corruption sting, a national organization criticized the very same sting. Andrew Kreig, director of the Justice Integrity Project, a Washington, D.C.-based organization looking into “selective prosecutions” by the federal government, …

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Newport residents will probably see a new 40-story building rising in their neighborhood next year. The Planning Board at their Nov. 30 meeting approved the preliminary and final site plan for a 790-unit residential/retail structure to be built at 700 Washington Blvd., across the street from the Target Department Store. The Newport section of Jersey …

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Laura Cieckiewcz, 49, once owned a home on Lake Street in Jersey City, but she later became homeless. Two weeks ago, her body was discovered behind a basketball court and playground in Jersey City’s Leonard Gordon Park. The fact that she may have spent her last days alone on the streets in near-freezing weather was …

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Donovan Bezer takes his marathon running seriously, having done 10 of the races so far. His best time was three hours and five minutes on a 26-mile course. But the downtown Jersey City resident wasn’t looking to do his personal best time when he participated in the Beirut Marathon earlier this month. That’s Beirut as …

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Former JC councilman Lipski named head of autonomous agency Former City Councilman Steve Lipski was named as the CEO of the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) on Tuesday. Lipski, who served on the City Council from 2001 to 2009, was the unanimous choice of the EDC Board of Trustees to assume the autonomous agency’s …

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City Hall has submitted a report to the state so they may start the process of laying off up to 82 police officers in order to save up to $8 million in the 2011 city budget. However, Mayor Jerramiah Healy said he hopes the city and the police union can come to some kind of …

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The Liberty Humane Society animal shelter in Jersey City, which takes in strays from that city and Hoboken, was hit with a lawsuit two weeks ago from a group of volunteers who are questioning the shelter’s policies related to euthanizing and adopting out animals. Around the same time, one of those volunteers was arrested for …

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