Category: West New York News

United Cerebral Palsy of Hudson County continues to make strides in services offered to youth and adults with cerebral palsy and other disabilities. The association serves not only Hudson, but Bergen, Essex, Union, and Passaic counties. The organization’s services include programs for preschoolers, afterschool programs for kids with autism, and vocational offerings for adults. All …

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Uncontested election this Tuesday Mayor Brian Stack and the Board of Commissioners are up for re-election this Tuesday, May 13. In Union City’s form of government, five commissioners are elected, and they choose a mayor from among themselves. All five candidates are running for their seats uncontested this year. The voting hours are 6 a.m. …

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Students from Union City’s Woodrow Wilson School have been participating in the rigorous ROGATE (Resources Offered in Gifted and Talented Education) program, sponsored by the National Talent Network of Educational Information Resource Center in Mullica Hill. In the history of Woodrow Wilson School, this year has the highest number of students aspiring for the Gold …

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Although the men and women who work as firefighters, police officers, or emergency medical technicians generally do so without fanfare, those who have shown exceptional dedication to duty were honored at the April 30 annual 200 Club of Hudson County Valor Awards luncheon at Liberty House in Jersey City. “It’s fitting and really not surprising …

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Union City Chamber Players to perform Brahms Union City Chamber Players (UCCP) will present a program featuring Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F Minor on Sunday, May 18 at 7:30 p.m. at Emanuel United Methodist Church, 3310 New York Ave., Union City. Guest artists Blanca Ugelli (piano), Robert Lawrence (violin), and E. Zoe Hassman (cello) – …

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Five nuns from Hudson County are seizing the Church of the Good Shepherd in Fort Lee for two upcoming weekends. They are staging a musical fundraiser in order to bury the four frozen nuns remaining out of the 52 that Sister Julia, Child of God, killed with a bad pot of vichyssoise. The nuns are …

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“Mamma’s Trilogy,” which Hoboken filmmaker Frank Gigante describes as “a soft horror film,” will screen as part of the Bergenfield Film Festival on Thursday, May 1. It will be presented at 6:15 p.m. at Bow Tie Cinemas, 58 S. Washington Ave., Bergenfield. Consisting of three darkly comic short films, the movie mocks stereotypical characters and …

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High Tech fundraiser for Make-A-Wish Foundation to honor local resident The High Tech High School “Spring Fling” fundraiser reached out to the community, raffling prizes donated by Applebee’s, Dunkin’ Donuts, Chipotle, Café Archetypus, and many other local vendors. High Tech is the countywide public high school based in North Bergen, which draws from all of …

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