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Cleaning house
City adopts ordinances about liquor licenses, apartments

Mayor Brian Stack and the Union City Board of Commissioners voted to adopt ordinances Tuesday night that will provide incentives for liquor license holders to retire their licenses and for landlords to make improvements to their properties. Also voted upon was the placement of two new stops signs along 17th Street – one at Bergenline …

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Kids in the courtroom
Miftaahul Uloom Academy wins second place in county mock trial

Four Hudson County high school mock trial teams squared off in a battle of legal wits earlier this month in the county’s Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Courthouse, arguing two sides of a mock civil trial. This year’s civil case was a hypothetical dispute between two distracted high school students: a pedestrian and the Corvette …

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Park Players feature new faces
Community theatre group to perform ‘Godspell’

The Park Players, a Hudson and Bergen County community theatre group, believe that there is an acting role for everyone, no matter what their age or experience. This month, their production of the musical “Godspell” will feature an entirely new cast, mostly amateurs in their mid-20s. Park Players Chairperson Joseph D. Fiorenza Conklin, who is …

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‘Real Housewives of NJ’ kids take Hoboken
In interview, reality show brothers won’t confirm new show being filmed here

Will the next big TV reality show focus on two twentysomething guys from the suburbs dating and partying in Hoboken? Rumors throughout the media suggest that the sons of one of the stars of Bravo’s “Real Housewives of New Jersey” show – Albie and Chris Manzo, who now live in a pricy apartment on the …

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BRIEFS

Correction Due to a language translation error, in last week’s article, “Meet the candidates,” it was incorrectly stated that West New York mayoral candidate FiorD’Aliza Frias had referenced a potential shift in ethnic leadership during an interview with NECIO TV. This statement was never said or written by Frias or anyone else in her committee. …

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Christie comes to Union City
Gov talks fiscal reform to packed room of 600, gets praise from Stack

Union City Mayor Brian Stack welcomed “ally and friend” Gov. Christopher Christie to speak about his reform agenda before a packed room of 600 area residents Wednesday morning at the Bruce Walter Recreation Center. Introduced by Stack as “the greatest governor this state has ever had,” Christie took the floor to speak about his last …

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Growing influence
UC and WNY house 6 percent of state’s Hispanics

Since the last Census, the Hispanic population of New Jersey has grown by 39.2 percent, making the 1.6 million Hispanics the second largest population group in the state, after Caucasians. One in five New Jerseyans is now Hispanic. Union City and West New York, which combined house over 6 percent of the state’s Hispanics, have …

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At long last
County psychiatric hospital gets accreditation

Long plagued by serious problems, Meadowview Hospital in Secaucus, which is the county’s psychiatric hospital, has finally received a long-sought after accreditation that shows it has fully recovered from decades of neglect and inefficiency. “This is something very significant,” said Carol Ann Wilson, director of Hudson County Health and Human Services, who was put in …

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Getting the film crews back to NJ
Gov. to decide future of tax credit that benefited Hudson County

Gov. Christopher Christie will this month decide the fate of a tax credit program for motion picture and television productions that film in New Jersey. Until the governor suspended this tax credit last year, several Hudson County-based productions, including “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” had benefited from the tax credit, which supporters say led …

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Will new Hudson River rail tunnel really happen?
$13.5M Gateway Project unveiled, funding unknown

It took 20 years to find funding for the Access to the Region’s Core Tunnel – two NJ Transit tubes that were suppose to create more passenger rail – and then only a year for the project to be cancelled by Gov. Christopher Christie. Now Amtrak’s recently unveiled Gateway Tunnel Project could send more trains …

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