Prom-ise of a special moment
Students at downtown JC high school prepare for prom

Victoria Swift, 18, estimates that her dress for her prom at McNair Academic High School in Jersey City will cost her $200 to $400. She’s had time to save, though: She is part of a 15-member prom committee that started planning the event as soon as school started last fall. Swift and other students across …

Students at downtown JC high school prepare for prom

Gov makes it harder for biz districts
State wants to keep tax funds generated at local stores

Jersey City is among many municipalities protesting Gov. Christopher Christie’s recent announcement that the state will keep money that comes from the town’s specially designated business districts, money that used to go back to the districts where it was produced. In the past, the statewide Urban Enterprise Zone program allowed the state to designate certain …

State wants to keep tax funds generated at local stores

Meeting Monday on upcoming chromium cleanup
Critics from Garfield Ave. site unhappy with method

Residents living near 900 Garfield Ave. in Jersey City can come to a meeting on Monday to hear plans for a cleanup of the 16-acre site, contaminated with cancer-causing hexavalent chromium. But some of them are already unsatisfied with the level of the cleanup that’s being proposed. The cleanup was specified in a controversial settlement …

Critics from Garfield Ave. site unhappy with method

Having a happy Earth Day
Free events will mark 40th anniversary

This coming Thursday, April 22, will officially mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. Earth Day was celebrated on April 22, 1970 by 20 million Americans participating in teach-ins and other events to highlight awareness of the Earth’s environment. _____________ “People can see earth and nature pretty much untouched and unspoiled by the outside.” – …

Free events will mark 40th anniversary

Still going at 107 years old!
Bayonne’s ‘Macaroni Lady’ honored by county

Although a resident of Jersey City for most of her life, Fanny D’Elia is well-known in Bayonne for founding and operating the legendary La Rinasente Macaroni Shop on Avenue C for many years. She is still sometimes called “the Macaroni Lady” by the children of former customers, a fact in which she takes great pride. …

Bayonne’s ‘Macaroni Lady’ honored by county

JERSEY CITY BRIEFS

Suspect in JC couple’s slaying pleads not guilty to five murders A 19-year-old Jersey City man, who along with two women was charged in the murder of a recently engaged couple in front of their home, was also charged in three more murders that took place this year. Shiquan Bellamy, 19, of Arlington Avenue, along …

Suspects arrested in young couple’s murder
JC pair remembered by loved ones, strangers

Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio announced Friday the arrests of Shiquan Bellamy, 20, Darmelia Lawrence, 19, and Shiquan’s cousin, Latonia Bellamy, 19, both from Jersey City, in connection with the murders of the Jersey City couple Michael Muchioki and Nia Haqq six days earlier. A third suspect was also charged but the name was not …

JC pair remembered by loved ones, strangers

Hurley headed to Basketball Hall of Fame
Legendary St. Anthony High School coach earns highest honor

The long-awaited trip that Bob and Chris Hurley were going to take to Dublin, Ireland was going to have to wait about day or two. “When I called my travel agent to tell him about the delay, I figured this was a pretty good excuse,” Hurley said Monday in a ballroom at the Marriott Hotel …

Legendary St. Anthony High School coach earns highest honor

Born and raised – and still here
JC families go back several generations

There is a tendency among real estate agents to portray Jersey City as a hip, modern metropolis with new development and amenities attracting young, upwardly mobile types from Manhattan – but the branding somewhat obscures the city’s rich past, when immigrants migrated to a blue-collar town to find work. But not everyone forgets. Some modern-day …

JC families go back several generations