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Homeless no more
After article runs, politicians and residents give family help and an apt.

Eight-year-old Tirzah Johnson announced last week that she will be playing the part of the wind in her school play in West New York – which seemed appropriate as she breezed excitedly around the front of the Town Hall with her mother, Danyse Johnson, her two younger siblings (10-month-old Kaleo and 3-year-old Irie), and Mayor …

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EXCLUSIVE: Whistleblowing cop wants job back
Sent dozens to jail from WNY, now fights for civil rights across state

Former West New York Police Officer Richard Rivera has lived a lot since he called out 30 members of his own department for their illegal involvement in racketeering in 1994. The scandal led to the conviction of the police chief and charges against 30 officers. Seventeen years later, Rivera is stronger, wiser, and busier than …

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Roller boogie hits Hudson
County high school to perform zany ‘Xanadu’ musical

After 13 years of theater, Hudson County high school students will again hit the stage, but this time they’ll be wearing roller skates. The award-winning High Tech High School Musical Theater Department will present its fall musical, “Xanadu – the ’80s Roller Boogie Musical,” this month at the HTHS Black Box Theater at 2000 85th …

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Lost dogs and 9/11 controversy on stage
Two local playwrights are featured at PPAC

There is a colorful, practically rebel playwright community that lies in the shadow — or, more appropriately, thrives in the sunlight — of the skyline of a city known for theater. A new project by a Union City-based theater company is featuring Weehawken playwrights Joanne Hoersch and Eric Conger this month. Their plays will be …

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BRIEFS

Results are in: meet your elected officials Election results are in from Tuesday night. The positions up for grabs on Nov. 8 were county executive, county register, three state Senate seats, all six state Assembly seats, and all nine Board of Freeholder seats. Democrats maintained their majority in the legislature for the seventh year in …

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Divine by design
Local woman started successful ad firm with $1,500

Norma Almanza does not look old enough to have run her own business for 23 years. Perhaps she’s managed to avoid the stress-induced aging brought about by entrepreneurship, because, as she said, “I love my work.” Almanza started the YA Group — a design, advertising, and outreach firm located on New York Avenue in Union …

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ALMOST HOMELESS – can anyone help?
Woman, 3 kids down to last dollar thanks to federal housing snafu

“My middle names mean love and beautiful gem,” said 8-year-old Tirzah Johnson on Thursday in a McDonald’s on Kennedy Blvd. in Union City, blocks from the hotels where she, her sister and brother, and her mother have been staying for two months with the last of their savings. Now they have to fear they will …

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Urban oasis for Union City
High school breaks ground for Student Sanctuary

On such a chilly October Friday afternoon, it may have been hard to envision a plant-lined walkway, fountain, and waterfall that are planned for Union City High School’s Student Sanctuary, but school officials “broke ground” on Oct. 28 with gleaming shovels and began a project tentatively set for completion on June 15 of 2012. Mayor …

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Who are you voting for next month?
Several elections scheduled for Nov. 8

Voters throughout Hudson County will go to the polls on Nov. 8 to elect a number of county and state officeholders. The positions up for grabs are county executive, county register, three state Senate seats, all six state Assembly seats, and all nine Board of Freeholder seats. Only two of the freeholders face competition this …

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