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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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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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BRIEFS

Animal League presents Tricky Tray on Dec. 5 The Hudson County Animal League will present a Holiday Gift Extravaganza Tricky Tray on Friday, Dec. 5 at St. Michael’s Community Center, 21 East 23 St., Bayonne, from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Beat the holiday shopping crowds win some Christmas gifts and stocking stuffers. Admission is …

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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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Light rail closer to extending to Bergen County
With no $$ from feds, local mayors meet to ask for state funds

Seeking to get state-funding for the long stalled Bergen County arm of the Hudson Bergen Light Rail, elected officials including West New York Mayor Felix Roque gathered at the of Exchange Place transit station in Jersey City on Oct. 20. First conceived more than 30 years ago with construction started in Hudson County about 15 …

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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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Reporter on Vacation
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WEST NEW YORK BRIEFS

Hudson County CASA needs volunteers Are you interested in helping children in the foster care system? If so, Hudson County CASA is currently recruiting volunteers to advocate for the best interests of abused and neglected children. CASA works through trained community volunteers to insure that needed services and assistance are made available to children while …

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UC high-rise residents meet at urban garden
From kale to bees, common space fosters social interaction, education

Maya Iyengar has a special interest in The Lenox, the 300-unit Union City building where she lives with her elderly mother. She’s not only the current vice president of the Board of Directors, she grew up there. Today, her mother enjoys the color of the community garden, the seeds of which germinated after residents expressed …

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20 years of ‘Clerks’!
Famous Jersey-based indie film has Hudson County connection

In 1993, actor Scott Schiaffo was 28, living with his mother in Garfield, N.J., earning a living at two or three retail jobs, and on-and-off binge drinking. He was also working with a Hoboken-based acting coach to try to land film and TV gigs. As actors did in the pre-internet days, he looked for audition …

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