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Lourdes Valdes, manager of Employment and Training Development at Jersey City Medical Center, a Barnabas Health facility, was selected to attend a “President’s Call to Action” Summit at the White House on April 24. Representatives from more than 100 employers, who employ more than five million workers and empower frontline workers across their businesses to …

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Major developments in Chris Christie ‘Bridgegate’ scandal David Wildstein, former Port Authority official and a high-school friend of Gov. Christopher Christie, pleaded guilty to fraud and “conspiracy against civil rights,” on Friday, May 1, according to published reports. Judge Susan D. Wigenton at the United States District Court in Newark said Wildstein had engaged in …

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When Nathalie Masse talks to her daughter Lea Mohally in French, Lea replies in English. For a 3-and-a-half-year-old girl, Lea is well on her way to becoming bilingual. This is more than just a testimony to her mother’s upbringing in French-speaking Canada; it is a commitment to the future that no one expected when Lea …

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Christina Skop did her best to keep order as chairman of the Hudson County Board of Freeholders during this year’s Student Government Day on April 2. But like her counterpart in the adult version, she had to deal with the strong personalities of those who were serving as freeholders and other county positions. Each year, …

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Richard Murphy walked through the old Butler Warehouse on Warren Street as if he intended to move there when it was complete, or like a proud father showing off his first-born child. The Butler Warehouse, now the Modera Lofts, isn’t the first residential development he’s been involved in over his 25 years in the industry. …

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Dr. Joel Núñez knows what it is like to think that life is set against him. A psychologist now, Nunez grew up in Jersey City and had many of the same aspirations that urban kids today have, dreaming that a career in sports might help him get out of poverty. Then, as with many people, …

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Members of numerous local and state rescue agencies came together in Secaucus on Feb. 11 to extricate two individuals trapped in their vehicle after heavy cargo from a truck smashed down on the highway. Many of those who took part in the rescue operation were honored at a luncheon at Bonefish Grill on April 19. …

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Man arrested in connection with two bank robberies Richard Wandell, 47, of Jersey City, was arrested on Wednesday without incident and charged with allegedly robbing two banks. The Jersey City Police Department’s Major Case Unit responded to a report of a bank robbery in Jersey City Heights on April 17. Receiving a report that another …

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While clearing the grounds of a former pig farm on the Secaucus/Jersey City border in preparation for building two new warehouses, a worker from Hugerich construction stumbled across a huge block and hauled it out of the dirt. “The guy scoops with the backhoe and a square rock come out,” said Walter Hugerich, owner of …

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