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Pretty in pink?
Construction workers gather in pink hard hat ceremony to encourage breast cancer screenings

Dressed in pink t-shirts and pink hard hats, construction workers from Meadowlands Fire Protection Corp (a division of EMCOR/F&G Mechanical) gathered in the Newport Green Park development in Jersey City on Sept. 29, a call to action to help fight breast cancer. With a cool wind blowing off the Hudson River and the threat of …

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Don’t spend that money here
Civic JC says superpac for Fulop cannot be used to support his mayoral campaign

Civic JC, a local watchdog organization, has sent a letter to Coalition for Progress, a large political fundraising committee for Mayor Steven Fulop’s now-aborted gubernatorial campaign, warning the organization not to use money raised from local vendors in his upcoming mayoral re-election race or other municipal elections. Esther Wintner, president and chair of Civic JC, …

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You can get there from here
Local planner offers alternative route to connect NYC subway with Secaucus

Port Authority officials and other officials speaking about a three-year-old New York and New Jersey commuter capacity study suggested in late September that a previously shelved plan to extend the No. 7 subway line from New York to New Jersey may be revived in an effort to reduce bus traffic flow into the Port Authority …

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The little print shop that could
92-year-old Hoboken business founded by North Bergen man moves on

Commuters headed toward the Hoboken train station often stop to admire the collection of industrial artifacts in the window of Terminal Printing, the 92-year-old business on River Street two blocks from the terminal. The window displays a collection of stamps and block letters from the print jobs of yesteryear, done at the request of everyone …

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NJ highest in nation for adults living with parents
But Hudson County clocks in much lower

What used to be the norm – graduating from school and finding a place of your own – is increasingly challenging for the millennial generation. Roughly 47 percent of New Jerseyeans aged 18-34 live at home with parents, the highest rate in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey. Connecticut …

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A celebration of culture
The 41st Annual Hispanic Parade rocks Bergenline Avenue

Blaring horns, cheering crowds, brightly dressed dancers and loud music filled Bergenline Avenue on Oct. 2, as thousands of people line the street through North Bergen, Guttenberg, West New York, and Union City in a celebration of Hispanic culture. Led by U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez and mayors Nicholas Sacco, Brian Stack, Gerald Drasheff, Felix Rogue, …

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‘There is no more selfless job’
Feds award huge public safety grant to Jersey City

The day before the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, federal officials came to Jersey City to announce the award of an $8.5 million grant to hire more firefighters and enhance the city’s emergency response. Against the backdrop of a rig purchased under a similar grant, Mayor Steven Fulop greeted U.S. Senators Robert …

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Union City’s stray cats star in book
NY woman talks about catching town’s felines in newly published memoir

Before living in Union City for 10 years, author of “To Catch a Cat” Heather Green lived and worked as a journalist in Manhattan. When visiting her boyfriend Matt Greer in Union City on weekends, she saw a mother cat caring for three kittens in his neighbor’s backyard, and fell in love. She wanted to …

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You can get there from here
Local planner offers alternative route to connect NYC subway with Secaucus

Port Authority officials and other officials speaking about a three-year-old New York and New Jersey commuter capacity study suggested in late September that a previously shelved plan to extend the No. 7 subway line from New York to New Jersey may be revived in an effort to reduce bus traffic flow into the Port Authority …

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SECAUCUS BRIEFS

Police investigate fatal hit-and-run on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen According to a press release from the North Bergen Police Department, at approximately 12:06 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2 the North Bergen Police and the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office Crash Investigation Unit responded to a report of a pedestrian struck. North Bergen police officers arrived …

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