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Holiday Hudson Reporter editorial and advertising deadlines Because of the Labor Day holiday, some of the Hudson Reporter newspapers will have special advertising deadlines. For the Sept. 8 edition of the Bayonne Community News, the display ad deadline is 5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2. The classified deadline is noon on Friday, Sept. 3. For …

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Concerned residents packed a conference room at City Hall on Tuesday night for a meeting of the board of the Liberty Humane Society, which runs Jersey City’s only animal shelter. Along with expressing concerns over a recent state health inspection, attendees debated the facility’s euthanasia policy. The shelter was once seen as the answer to …

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Felicia Palmer’s 6-year-old son, Jordan-River Samuel, attends first grade at Public School 3 on Bright Street in downtown Jersey City. When her son enrolled in the Jersey City public school system, Palmer became more involved in her son’s education by heading the school’s Parent-Teacher Association. Now, Palmer is taking her interest a step further. She …

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He had just finished the best acceptance speech among all the newest members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame a week ago Friday when Jersey City’s Bob Hurley stepped away from the podium and down the stairs off the stage at Symphony Hall in Springfield, Mass. As he was returning to his seat …

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When Edison Hernandez, 12, of Jersey City, died in an accident in December of 2003, Mae Howard of South Jersey got his heart. Young Edison Hernandez was one of the organ donors who will live on through Jersey City Medical Center’s “Wall of Heroes,” a tribute to the donors that was unveiled on the hospital’s …

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Mural art, often reserved for the great outdoors, has come to the second and third floor walls of City Hall in downtown Jersey City, and local artists were there. On Tuesday, the city held an opening reception of the “Deck The Hall Exhibit”– over 43 murals created on 4-foot by 8-foot corrugated plastic panels, depicting …

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Correction In the Aug. 12 edition of the Midweek Reporter, a news item in the briefs section, “JC resident, head of union fund pleads guilty to kickbacks” incorrectly listed the name of the union leader who pleaded guilty. The correct name is Dennis J. Giblin, not Thomas Giblin. City unveils emergency alerts for residents Jersey …

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