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Getting the money back
Mayors want their business district $$$ from the state

Mayors and other urban officials gathered in the Walmart parking lot in North Bergen on Nov. 10 to support a bill proposed by Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto to reinstate state funds for business districts, or Urban Enterprise Zones. The bill would mandate that a portion of sales tax revenues go back to some municipalities each …

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Cracking down on crime
Guttenberg police nab suspects in two incidents

Four men were arrested recently in two different incidents in Guttenberg. In both cases it was the alertness of the police that led to the arrests. At about 12:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23, Officer Frank Pelaez and Officer Martin Rysiec spotted a vehicle traveling north on River Road. Police say the car was traveling …

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Reporter on Vacation
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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with anyReporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the Shore? Riding a camel in the desert? …

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NORTH BERGEN BRIEFS

Prieto announces UEZ Sales Tax Revenue Restoration Bill Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto held a press conference on Monday, Nov. 10 to announce a new bill he is introducing that would restore a portion of sales tax revenue to municipalities with Urban Enterprise Zones (UEZ). The event was held at 2100 88th Street in the parking …

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Season of giving
Fundraising event launches campaign against homelessness

Meteorologists are forecasting another brutal winter this year. Imagine you have no house or apartment to go to. That’s the case for all too many individuals in Hudson County and elsewhere. And that’s what the Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation (PERC) and parent organization Garden State Episcopal Community Development Corporation (GSECDC) have been addressing for years. …

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‘They don’t want you to fight back’
Former Mayor Elwell returns to Secaucus after 30 months in federal prison

Forty years ago, when Dennis Elwell came home from Vietnam, the bus dropped him off in the center of Secaucus and he took the long walk alone to the North End where his family lived. It was a lonely walk, one thick with memories, since his family had lived here for generations. Like most veterans …

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Parades, pumpkins, and haunted houses
North Bergen pulls out the stops for Halloween

Screams and maniacal laughter could be heard from blocks away as hundreds of residents crowded the sidewalks around the high school after dark on Tuesday, Oct. 28. Inside could be found wandering zombies, insane clowns, mad doctors, blood-drenched corpses, and much more. “We come here every year,” said Donna Cieckiewicz at another of North Bergen’s …

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Reporter on Vacation
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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the Shore? Riding a camel in the …

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NORTH BERGEN BRIEFS

Vainieri elected freeholder Democrat Anthony Vainieri was elected as Freeholder of District Eight on Tuesday, Nov. 4. At press time the number of votes cast for him was 8,542, representing 75 percent of the vote. Republican Francis Bruno received 2,016 votes (18 percent) and unaffiliated candidate Odemaris Ramirez received 794 votes (7 percent). Vainieri replaces …

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Watching for deadly enterovirus
Local experts emphasize precautions

A strain of the enterovirus that killed a 4-year-old Hamilton Township boy in September has caused concern for a multitude of parents. Local healthcare professionals and daycare-center officials say the key to helping avoid the spread of that and other viruses is public vigilance. “It’s very simple. It’s universal precautions,” said Dr. Meika Roberson, chief …

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