Reporter on Vacation
All year long โ€“ take a photo with your newspaper and send it in!

If youโ€™re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! Weโ€™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 …

All year long โ€“ take a photo with your newspaper and send it in!

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โ€˜Our Cryโ€™ art installation opens The city of Union City, Mayor Brian Stack and the board of commissioners hosted an opening reception for the art installation โ€œOur Cryโ€ on Friday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. at the William V. Musto Cultural Center, 420 – 15th St. Eleven artists from different countries all residing in Hudson …

Time of year for reflection
Most of countyโ€™s cemeteries are in one town

With summer vacation over and work and school back into full swing, autumn is a season of reflection for many, with the changing weather and the turning colors of leaves a reminder of transitions in life and a reminder of relatives from the past. A temperate fall afternoon at Weehawken Cemetery on Bergen Turnpike in …

Most of countyโ€™s cemeteries are in one town

Cultural stew
Band puts a new spin on global traditions

โ€œIn my mind Iโ€™m more country and heโ€™s more punk rock, and we put that together in our originals,โ€ said Danielle Reid. The Union City resident plays banjo and sings in the duo Red Winter, while her partner, Itai Winter, plays guitar and sings. Together they have been playing locally for about a year, building …

Band puts a new spin on global traditions

Business is picking up
Bayonne manโ€™s company removes dog waste for profit

Nobody had to tell Joe Koval that times are tough. A freelance videographer, Koval was always looking for a way to make a little extra cash. So one day while walking his dog, he noticed some backyards had an unusual amount of dog poop. โ€œPeople donโ€™t always take their dogs for a walk,โ€ he said. …

Bayonne manโ€™s company removes dog waste for profit

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Hudson County History Fair to be held Saturday The Hudson County History Fair, celebrating New Jerseyโ€™s 350th anniversary, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 18, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Gilligan Student Union multipurpose room, New Jersey City University, 2039 Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City. Admission is free, as is parking (entrance on …

Historic structure comes alive!
Plays to be performed in Park Avenue water tower

From the time it was built in 1883, the Weehawken Water Tower, located on Park Avenue on the Union City border, has served two important functions: it housed the home offices of the Hackensack Water Company, and it held 165,000 gallons of water for drinking and extinguishing fires in all North Hudson towns as well …

Plays to be performed in Park Avenue water tower

Uber for you?
Some prefer new car service to taxis, but it conflicts with local laws

Uber Technologies, Inc., a taxi-like car service, is gaining steam throughout the county as a convenient alternative to dialing a cab. You hit an icon on your phone, a driver picks you up in his own car, and the person is paid automatically with your credit card โ€“ no tipping. But not so fast, say …

Some prefer new car service to taxis, but it conflicts with local laws

County high school may move from NB to Secaucus
Project had stalled; may eventually replace dinosaur park

With additional money being generated through the state, a plan to move the North Bergen campus of the Hudson County Schools of Technology to Secaucus seems to be on the agenda again after being set aside in 2011. The move would not affect the Montgomery Avenue campus in Jersey City, one of the concerns that …

Project had stalled; may eventually replace dinosaur park

Reporter on Vacation
All year long โ€“ take a photo with your newspaper and send it in!

If youโ€™re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! Weโ€™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 …

All year long โ€“ take a photo with your newspaper and send it in!