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When Yolanda Dortch-Amiker joined the U.S. Army in 1995, she had a number of reasons. Raised in Jersey City, she joined the military to get away from many of the problems of the inner city. As it turned out, she served in eight different cities in a number of countries, and even went to war. …

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What better people to learn about art from than the people who make art? This is the theory behind a new program instituted at the Jersey City Theater Center for kids to learn about art, taking advantage of the gallery and artists who have spaces in the Newark Avenue location. Gabriel Pacheco, a Jersey City-based …

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Freeholders yank grant money from Loews In a power struggle for control of the Historic Loews Theater in Jersey City, the Hudson County Freeholders voted on Thursday night to redirect grants to pay for a new park. Seven of the nine freeholders voted to take away the money with Freeholder Gerald Balmir absent and Freeholder …

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One of the busiest attractions at this year’s “Night Out Against Crime” at Pershing Field was the Dunk the Cop tank. People lined up for their chance to hurl a baseball at a target and score a bulls-eye that would dump a police officer into a vat of water. Oddly enough, many of those in …

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Pat Hilliard and Mike Ruscigno came from Bayonne to Jersey City’s Leonard Gordon Park last Tuesday bearing signs in support of President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan. As members of the Bayonne Nature Club, Hilliard and Rusciagno were concerned, calling the coal-powered PSEG Hudson Generating Station power plant in Jersey City off in the distance …

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In a joint statement, Mayor Steven Fulop and Jay Walder, president and CEO of Motivate, have announced that Jersey City’s new bike share program will kick off in September. The program will be called Citi Bike Jersey City, and will also allow riders to use the Citi Bike system in New York. Jersey City originally …

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Nearly two centuries ago, Hudson County was a destination for beach enthusiasts. From the 1840s until at least the 1880s, the Hotel LaTourette and its surrounding beaches at Bergen Point in Bayonne were referred to as “the most fashionable resort in the suburban district of New York.” Times have changed, but remnants of beaches remain. …

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McGreevey defends new site for prisoner reentry Former Gov. Jim McGreevey came under heated attack by members of the African-American community on Aug. 5 for establishing a new site for prisoner reentry at a church near Martin Luther King Dr. in Jersey City. McGreevey runs the city’s program for workforce development. Community leaders had met …

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Although medical science has made great strides over the last few decades in helping to detect breast cancer early, the latest innovation at Christ Hospital is expected to help even more. CarePoint Health has unveiled a $500,000 3-dimensional mammogram machine that could improve breast cancer detection by as much 50 percent. Breast tomosynthesis produces a …

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Although a light pole still needs to be fixed and a number of other small items attended to, the monument to veterans of the Korean War at Washington Boulevard and Dudley Street in Jersey City is just about complete. Officials from veterans groups throughout Hudson County as well as a delegation from South Korea gathered …

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