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A local businessman who picks up the artist’s brush when traffic is slow has his work on exhibit in Union City until the end of the month. Marcos Lara, the owner of Lara Signs on Broadway in Union City, graduated from Memorial High School in West New York and currently lives in Guttenberg. He specializes …
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In 1929, a man named George Fischer paid $4,600 for a giant linotype machine for his family printing business in Union City. Now Fischer’s grandson, Ken Fischer, will move the obsolete yet historic one-ton machine – along with the 134-year-old business – to Upstate New York. He said he has been trying to donate the …
Thursday was the deadline for candidates to file signed petitions in order to run for mayor or council in Jersey City’s May 12 municipal elections. Five candidates filed to run for mayor by the deadline: incumbent Mayor Jerramiah Healy, former Assemblyman Louis Manzo, current Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith, downtown activist Dan Levin, and resident Phil …
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At the most recent rally against tax increases in West New York, the man at the center, future mayoral candidate Dr. Felix Roque, said last week that he plans to finally follow through on his threat to start a recall election against Mayor Sal Vega. “This is the point of no return, the point of …
Trumping major American automobile manufacturers, students at Memorial High School in West New York are getting close to the finish line on a usable electric car. The $14,000 project is part of a pilot program for a new class on alternative fuel that was developed by technology education teacher Ron Grosinger. _____________ “Green technology is …
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After the announcement two weeks ago that St. Joseph of the Palisades High School in West New York will close indefinitely in June due to shrinking enrollment and funding, students remain hopeful that the school can be saved. “We are trying to pull some fundraisers together,” said sophomore Fernando Rios last week. “I believe it …
An internationally recognized impressionist painter from West New York is now exhibiting at a gallery in Union City. Janet Diaz, a native of Peru, has a selection of her work on display at the ArtsEcho Galleria on Park Avenue until the end of March. “My principal inspiration is the human being in all its manifestations, …
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Dr. Richard J. Wolff of Weehawken, who was appointed to the Tri-City Sewerage Authority in 1988 and became its chairman that same year, was elected chairman for the 21st consecutive year at the last meeting of the Authority, which was renamed the North Hudson Sewerage Authority in 1996. During his tenure as chairman, Wolff presided …
Tommy Morrissey wants to induct Giants quarterback Eli Manning into the Hall of Fame…the Morrissey Hall of Fame. Morrissey, a Hoboken resident, was given a pair of Manning’s sneakers by Manning’s then-fiancé seven months before the Giants won the Super Bowl in 2008. Due to a Reporter article about the exchange, last April, Morrissey reconnected …
Erin Peterson, 24, met her fiancé when they were both working at the ShopRite in Hoboken four years ago. This coming July, their life will be full of magic, as they plan to wed in one of their favorite places – Disney World in Florida. “We always like going there,” Peterson said last week. Peterson, …
Continue reading “Erin’s the onePeterson is Hudson Reporter employee of the month for February”