Category: Jersey City News

In ancient Greek mythology, Gaia is mother earth from which all else, mortal and immortal, was born. And for the children who gathered on April 22 to take part in this year’s Earth Day commemoration and who held pots of flowers to transplant into the flower beds on either side of the building’s front lawn, …

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With the assistance of a friend from the local charter school, Jen Giattino, councilwoman for the 6th Ward in Hoboken, struggled up Second Street carrying three shopping bags filled with pre-made meals. As is her routine on Tuesdays, Giattino was delivering meals she and other parents made for distribution at the Hoboken Homeless Shelter. “I …

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New alert system to be set up in Jersey City Jersey City officials have announced the launch of Swift911, a new citywide emergency alert system to keep residents instantly informed in both emergency and non-emergency situations. The launch is part of the Fulop Administration’s ongoing expansion of public safety and resident communications in Jersey City. …

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With the Weehawken High School Marching band greeting hundreds of spectators, Goya Foods unveiled its new $162 million facility in Jersey City on April 29. Among the long list of public officials attending was Gov. Christopher Christie, who supported granting $82 million in tax credits over the next 10 years to keep the company in …

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Saying they needed more information, the City Council put off decisions on two ordinances involving historic designation until the May 6 meeting. One ordinance would establish a new historic district on the West Side of Jersey City, and the other would modify the existing Powerhouse Historic district to allow the demolition of a former machine …

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Almost none of the participants at this year’s Earth Day celebration on April 26 at the Historic Harsimus Cemetery noticed the baby goat slip through the gap in the goat pen until the other slightly older goats flocked to that side of the pen. Eileen Markenstein picked up the small cat-sized animal and it bleated …

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Daniel Byerly, 29, of Jersey City isn’t ready just yet to give up his day job in the financial district in New York. But his debut with the New Jersey Association of Verismo in “Carmen” on April 26 marked another milestone in his career as an opera singer. Byerly, a tenor, performed the role of …

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When Joamelly Arteaga started to get nose bleeds as a young girl, nobody suspected she was suffering from lupus. “They didn’t know what she had,” said her father, Armando Hernandez, a resident of West New York, who after the his daughter’s death two years ago established the Lupus Y Latinos Foundation in Union City to …

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For anyone who has followed Bethenny Frankel’s career as a real housewife, what you see is what you get. Frankel is coming to Hoboken on Monday to talk about her new book on dating, “I Suck at Relationships; So You Don’t Have To.” She is currently on “The Real Housewives of New York” and will …

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