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Learning about Alzheimer’s
North Bergen police officers receive new training

The North Bergen Police Department had three days of training last week with Kristine Allen, president and co-founder of the Act Now Foundation, a nonprofit organization that helps the public recognize signs of Alzheimer’s disease. Each day was five hours of training by Allen using various scenarios and seminars. She taught the whole department how …

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Replacement for Drumeler found
Gary Jeffas to be Town Administrator, John Gerbasio may be new councilman

Mayor Michael Gonnelli and the Town Council have announced that Councilman Gary Jeffas will have to resign to replace Town Administrator David Drumeler this January. Drumeler recently resigned from his position to work for the county. Since his departure, Director of Finance Nick Goldsack has been the acting town administrator. Also in the announcement, Gonnelli …

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Reusing resources
Cistern at Town Hall captures rainwater

Below North Bergen Town Hall is a plastic cistern that collects two inches of rainwater per rainfall. The gutters collect the rainwater, and drop it into the 500-gallon cistern. The rainwater can be released from a pump that will be reused to water the grass and plants at Town Hall. The initiative was a $10,000 …

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Recycling is working in Secaucus
Town ranks number one in Hudson County

Businesses and residents of Secaucus are correctly recycling the most tons of items compared to other Hudson County towns, according to Secaucus Recycling Coordinator Steve Badalamenti. Secaucus annually applies for a yearly Department of Environmental Protection grant which calculates the percentage of total tonnage of items recycled properly. When items are recycled properly, and the …

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From Spider-Man to Eazy-E
Local residents have it all sewn up for Halloween

It seems like everyone had great ideas on what to be for Halloween the day after last year’s Halloween. But for some people, between last year and this year, those ideas seem to have gotten lost. “I wish I wrote that down,” said Lisa D’Antonio, 23, of Jersey City. “I get so many great ideas …

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JERSEY CITY BRIEFS

Handbags of Hope raises awareness about breast cancer “About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime,” says Handbags of Hope Exchange founder, Erika Hernandez. Handbags of Hope Exchange and Hudson County Community College’s Division of Non-Traditional Programs invited Jersey Celebrity Reality TV Star, Amber Marchese, a …

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SECAUCUS BRIEFS

Halloween safety assembly at Huber Street School Officer William Eccles from the LEAD program discussed Halloween safety with 3rd through 5th graders. Students learned about how to stay safe when they trick or treat on Halloween. He talked about how they should walk in the neighborhood and be very careful when they are crossing the …

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Activist umbrella organization to hold community meeting Nov. 2

JERSEY CITY – All concerned residents of Jersey City are invited to a public forum to talk about issues affecting everyone’s lives today, such as the Board of Education local elections, Jersey City’s infrastructure and parking concerns, clean air, water and food, the presidential election, war and terrorism, and immigration and homelessness outreach, among other …

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