More than โ€˜just a bunch of noiseโ€™
Union City Music Project teaches harmonious life lessons; will hold expansion fundraiser

โ€œWhen we moved here I wasnโ€™t aware I would be having children, and once I did I was a little hesitant to stay in the area,โ€ Union City resident and mother Mary Trigg said last week. โ€œMy husband and I are creative people, and music is the first thing taken out of a budget. But …

Union City Music Project teaches harmonious life lessons; will hold expansion fundraiser

โ€˜I do, I do, I do, I doโ€™
Weehawken bride appears on TLCโ€™s โ€˜Four Weddingsโ€™

The Learning Channel (TLC) seems to have a thing for Weehawken brides. Weeks after resident Stella Aronis was featured on โ€œSay Yes to the Dress,โ€ Diana Abreuโ€™s wedding was broadcast during an episode of โ€œFour Weddings.โ€ โ€œWhen I found out they had chosen me, I was mostly shocked,โ€ Abreu said recently. โ€œI put in the …

Weehawken bride appears on TLCโ€™s โ€˜Four Weddingsโ€™

BRIEFS

West New York man charged with allegedly forcing woman into apt. at knifepoint A West New York resident was arrested for allegedly forcing a woman in her 40s into his apartment at 5209 Hudson Ave. at knifepoint and allegedly assaulting and raping her on the morning of Aug. 25, West New York Police Director Michael …

Cause for complaint
WNY commissioner files harassment complaints vs. ex-town employee and colleague

On Aug. 2, West New York Commissioner Fior Dโ€™Aliza Frias filed harassment complaints against former town employee David Rivera and fellow Commissioner Count Wiley, Wileyโ€™s attorney Fernando Jimenez confirmed Tuesday. Two complaints were made to the West New York Police Department against Wiley. The first was for alleged harassment when Wiley allegedly went into Friasโ€™ …

WNY commissioner files harassment complaints vs. ex-town employee and colleague

Reporter on Vacation
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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 …

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BRIEFS

WNY mayor and son plead not guilty in federal court on charges of alleged computer hacking West New York Mayor Felix Roque and his son Joseph pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning in Newark federal court. The two were charged with three counts of computer hacking, related to a political opponent’s “Recall Roque” web site. The …

Local pol details plan to replace WNY mayor
Wiley also confirms short-lived dancing job

Count Wiley, the West New York Commissioner of Parks and Public Property, says that when he found out in a 2010 town meeting that taxes would be raised 52 percent, he was appalled. Wileyโ€™s bachelorโ€™s degree is in political science, but he had spent the past 10 years working as a chiropractor until doctor (and …

Wiley also confirms short-lived dancing job

Are Mayor Stack and commissioners receiving benefits?
City refuses to answer whether it got exemption from state policy

Even though a state agency has written into its policy that towns receiving certain type of state aid canโ€™t give benefits to their part-time elected officials, Union City has avoided questions of whether their mayor and council are receiving the benefits โ€“ and they have postponed responding to an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request …

City refuses to answer whether it got exemption from state policy

The saga continues
WNY Board of Commissioners meeting proves, once again, contentious

The politicking, bickering, and pleas from residents to work together and behave like adults carried on during Wednesday afternoonโ€™s uncharacteristically short and under-attended West New York Board of Commissionerโ€™s meeting. At the outset of the meeting, Mayor Felix Roque and the commissioners said they hoped to move through matters quickly that day because they were …

WNY Board of Commissioners meeting proves, once again, contentious

Reporter on Vacation
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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 …

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