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CN U TXT & DRIV?
New state law raises penalty for ‘distracted driving’

“Distracted driving” has become such a serious issue that law enforcement and the state Attorney General are calling attention to its hazards. Distracted driving includes talking or texting on a cell phone, tuning a radio or CD player, applying makeup, talking to other passengers, tending to children or pets, eating, and drinking. But cell phones …

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Roque hit with conspiracy charge; added count will be heard May 14 Indicted West New York Mayor Felix Roque was charged with a superseding count of conspiracy on Friday, according to a story on Politicker NJ. Roque will answer to the new charge, which was also filed against his son Joseph, in federal court on …

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Actually looking forward to report cards
Local tutoring service aids Hudson County kids

Henry Genis, a West New York fourth grader, was, for a long time, used to the scores he’d regularly see on his report card, most of which were in the 60s or 70s. However, he said last week that his grades have dramatically improved in recent weeks after working with tutors at the Hudson Learning …

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Bullying and sex trafficking
Local conference looks at cases, victims’ rights

When Holly Austin Smith was 17, she was seduced by a pimp at a South Jersey mall and dragged into the 1980s Atlantic City prostitution scene. Last week, she told a roomful of Hudson County law enforcement officers and others that she never even realized until a few years ago that she had been a …

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Controversial WNY sign ordinance to be repealed; attorney calls move ‘practical’ The town’s Board of Commissioners took measures towards repealing a controversial ordinance banning certain types of signs, banners, and flags Wednesday night, ending a nearly half-year struggle between Mayor Felix Roque, who had said the ordinance was an effort to clean up the town’s …

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Washington Park to get $6.5 M makeover
Field will be expanded to include baseball and soccer

The Union City Board of Commissioners recently approved the final plans for a $6.5 million complete renovation of its section of Washington Park, which sits on the border of the city and Jersey City Heights, in a large square surrounded by New York and Palisade avenues, Second Street, and Paterson Plank Road. A project that …

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‘A place all our own’
Hudson Theatre Works premieres ‘Of Mice and Men’ at Park PAC

Critics might say, perhaps ironically, that John Steinbeck’s tragic “Of Mice and Men” never ceases to disappoint. For the director of Hudson Theater Works’ new adaptation of the classic American novella-turned-play, the disappointment is quite literal. “It’s sad, the ending. I hope it happens differently, every time,” said Frank Licato after a preview of the …

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Assault charges against Stack dropped; trial date set for Roque and Wiley Bergen County got a taste of North Hudson politics Thursday morning when both Union City Mayor and State Senator Brian Stack and West New York Mayor Felix Roque appeared consecutively in Superior Court in Hackensack to answer to separate criminal charges. The simple …

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A comedy with a message
High school’s ‘Urinetown’ warns against waste

Despite its grin-inducing title, “Urinetown” is actually a pretty serious show. The satire-laden comedy, which will premiere at Union City High School next Thursday, April 11, tells the story of a dystopian society set sometime in the near future, where, as the result of a 20 year drought, citizens must pay to urinate, or else …

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Local legend memorialized
66th and Palisade now ‘Malavasi Way’

To the casual bystander, or a newer West New York resident who had never attended one of Mario Malavasi’s cookouts or boxcar races, the scene on the corner of 66th street and Palisades Avenue last Friday might have seemed out of place. But to those attending the ceremony renaming that corner after Malavasi, a local …

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