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Animals at risk for abuse
Some towns getting tougher with enforcement

Two dogs were left in a car in 90-degree temperatures until someone reported their owner. Five dogs were killed after someone allegedly fed them liverwurst doused with antifreeze. A cat’s collar was embedded so deeply into its skin that it died from maggots and other insects eating it alive. All these incidents of animal abuse …

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The belated victims of 9/11
How suicide and cancer are still claiming lives of those who weren’t in the buildings

Years after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, victims are still dying – some were emergency responders whose cancer is believed to be related to toxins in the air that day, and others are distraught because their relatives never made it out of the Twin Towers. “They didn’t all die on 9/11,” said Connie Agostini …

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BRIEFS

Union City remembers Mayor Brian Stack and the Board of Commissioners scheduled Union City’s Patriots Day observance on Friday Sept. 11 The ceremony was scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. at Liberty Plaza, 30th Street & Palisade Avenue, Union City. Enjoy a ‘Havana Night’ on Sept. 18 and help raise money for United Way Join …

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Slam dunk!
1980-1990s Hudson County athlete leaves lasting imprint in basketball circles

Little did John Giraldo know that an athletic career Jersey City, Guttenberg, West New York, and Bayonne would one day lead to Springfield, Mass. and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. From those Hudson County roots would grow not only a successful high school, collegiate, and professional basketball player, but a responsible man, husband, …

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1980-1990s Hudson County athlete leaves lasting imprint in basketball circles

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Officials ask for more light rail stops
Federal transit administrator takes tour of train system

“One quarter mile,” County Executive Tom DeGise told Marilyn Shazor, the regional administrator the Federal Transit Administration (and a Secaucus resident), during a countywide tour of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail Line on Wednesday, Sept 2. He explained that if the existing light rail tracks were extended just a quarter of a mile in Jersey …

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Federal transit administrator takes tour of train system

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Bishop of the people
Donato remembered as humble man who helped all

Bishop Gaetano “Thomas” Donato, a Jersey City native and the regional bishop of Hudson County, is being remembered as a gentle, soulful man, who helped all, reaching out far beyond his Roman Catholic faithful. Donato, 74, died on Tuesday, Aug. 25, at Toms River Memorial Hospital, a longtime friend said, succumbing to pancreatic cancer after …

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BRIEFS

Enjoy a ‘Havana Night’ on Sept. 18 and help raise money for United Way Join a night of fun and help raise money to support the programs of United Way of Hudson County and their partner Round2Resources. Think back to those spicy Cuban evenings and enjoy a live band and DJ, a Latin dance performance, …

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Focusing on success
Group of local filmmakers shooting for that one big hit

They’re young, intelligent, creative, driven and not willing to give up easily. They’re a crew of filmmakers, actors, musicians, artists, and technical workers. They’re nearly all from Hudson County and are looking to make it big in the movies – together. They are led by local filmmaker Sam Platizky, whose production company Narrow Bridge Films, …

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Farewell to a century-old tradition?
141st annual German festival at Schuetzen Park may be the last

John Gloistein has been attending the annual Volksfest in Schuetzen Park for nearly half a century. The event has special meaning for him. “I met my wife here 45 years ago,” he said at this year’s celebration on Aug. 16. “The day I came back from Vietnam, the next day was the festival. I was …

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141st annual German festival at Schuetzen Park may be the last

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