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Welcome to NoVHo!
Neighborhood North of the Viaduct in Hoboken bustles with food, theater, life

Now that the multimillion dollar renovation of the 14th Street Viaduct in northern Hoboken is complete, various restaurants and businesses with hip amenities have opened just north of the historic bridge, as well as small residential buildings boasting unusual architecture. With a cobblestone path, new park, dog run, two community theater groups, and a cooking …

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Controversial move: School election moved to Nov.
Public loses right to vote on school budget

The resolution that raised all the ruckus was tucked away on page six out of seven on the agenda for the Secaucus Board of Education meeting on Thursday, Jan. 22. Finance Committee Resolution R3.9 reads, simply, “approval of the board to move the annual school election to November.” After hearing arguments against the resolution from …

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Public loses right to vote on school budget

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A fun time at the ball
Art House Production hosted ninth annual Snow Ball

“For me, the highlight of this year’s Snow Ball was to see so many of Art House’s supporters come out to our new location in Journal Square,” said Christine Goodman, executive director of Art House Productions, Jersey City’s non-profit arts organization. “Change is always scary, and I have heard such wonderful, supportive feedback about our …

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Art House Production hosted ninth annual Snow Ball

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‘Grease’ is the word
Hoboken High School back in big way with spring musical

It’s no surprise to hear the actors and actresses in “Grease,” the newest musical production of the Hoboken Junior Senior High School Theater Company, say they identify with the characters they play. After all, they’re high school students playing high school students. The musical, which opens on Feb. 6, follows a gang of greasers at …

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50 feet of ‘Alice’
Lewis Carroll’s children’s classic gets reboot in interactive classes

When the seventh-grade students at Secaucus Middle School walk through the door of their language arts class, they know they’re in for more than just a conventional reading lesson. As they take their seats in a makeshift “amphitheater,” they are, in a very real sense, stepping into the pages of Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s story, …

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Braddock Park 2.0
New soccer fields and veterans’ memorial to replace ‘dustbowl’

“It was planned to be a cute place where overflow soccer people could come in and play. And what it became was kind of a nightmare for the neighborhood.” North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco made those comments last week about the dirt field at the north end of James J. Braddock North Hudson County Park, …

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D’AMICO, SEBASTIAN

A funeral mass was offered Jan. 27 at St. Anne’s Church, Jersey City, for Sebastian “Chips” D’Amico, 82, a long time Jersey City humanitarian. He passed away peacefully at home surrounded by his family on Jan. 23. Sebastian, well known as “Chips,” was born in Hoboken and lived most his life in Jersey City. He …

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Peer to peer
Local students help others learn ropes of high school

Quinn Williamson was only 16 when he and his brother, Drew, founded Jersey City Youth Alliance. The two brothers, both of whom did well in school over the years, wanted to help students they saw as struggling. High school, Quinn said, can be confusing, partly because of all the choices incoming students need to make. …

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