Category: Union City News

Editor’s Note: Katherine Desimine is a Union City resident and summer intern at the Hudson Reporter newspapers. Driving down West Farm Road in Bethlehem, a small town in northern New Hampshire, leads to the even smaller campus of the White Mountain School, a private boarding high school consisting of 120 young men and women in …

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The money couldn’t have come at a better time. A gala was held on May 21 for Palisades Emergency Residence Corporation – which runs a homeless shelter in Union City and other services in northern Hudson County – raising $50,000, according to Executive Director Emory Edwards. “After Hurricane Sandy, we’ve seen a 25 percent increase …

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Congressman Albio Sires (D–8th Dist.) said on Monday that he is planning to meet with officials from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in Washington in an effort to have tourist helicopters from New York City banned on the Jersey side of the Hudson River. He held a press conference in Hoboken on Monday that was …

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Everybody loves a bargain – especially when it comes to travelling, when flight and hotel expenses can cut into budgets that could be better spent on sightseeing and experiencing local culture. A trend that has existed for years in tourist meccas like New York City, Los Angeles, and London has now reached the shores of …

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“At this point, I’ve given up. I’ve given up any hope of getting help from the state through legal channels. I’ll just get what my wife needs illegally.” The Jersey City resident, who did not want to be identified, spoke these words from a waiting room last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where his …

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