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Mountains of mutz
Biancamano, Vito’s win again at 2015 Mutzfest

The third annual Hoboken Mutzfest saw no change in the top prize-winners, with M&P Biancamano winning the people’s choice award for best mozzarella for the third straight year and Vito’s Deli winning the critic’s choice for mozzarella for the second year in a row. Vito’s earned the critic’s choice for best sandwich for the second …

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Hair-razing sacrifice
Two Union City sisters shear locks for charity

Emily and Angelina Mathew, aged 7 and 6, have a lot in common – a sense of fun, and high energy, loving parents. They also once had long, luxuriant black hair. But recently their mother, Lesley Pallathumadon, took them to the Kennedy Center Supercuts to have their hair cut into short, stylish bobs. The shorn …

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Two Union City sisters shear locks for charity

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Zoning battle on Boulevard East
Public comments on 13-story building in three-story zone

In a marathon Jan. 22 Zoning Board meeting that lasted about four hours, advocates and opponents of the 13-story Meridia Le Boulevard high-rise apartment complex debated its potential impact. It was the first of two public hearings on the project, which has been proposed for Boulevard East. The Capadagli Property Company is asking for 20 …

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Public comments on 13-story building in three-story zone

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‘The good of people showed through’
Outpouring of support from Hudson County after Edgewater fire

Officials have determined that the massive fire that consumed the Avalon housing complex in Edgewater two weeks ago was started accidentally by maintenance workers using a torch to make plumbing repairs inside an apartment. The workers allegedly tried to extinguish the blaze themselves, taking more than 15 minutes to call 911. Ultimately the fire that …

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PALMER, IVETTE

A funeral service was held Jan. 24 for Ivette Palmer, 48, of North Bergen. She passed away Jan. 20. She was the manager of the Kate Spade Clothing Store in North Bergen. She was the wife of Michael Palmer; daughter of Julio Rodriguez and the late Brunilda; mother of Daniel, Nicholas and Richard Palmer; sister …

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Netting more experience
Local badminton fans get visit from U.S. national squad

The world got a bit smaller and friendlier for students at the county’s public high school — High Tech High School — on Jan. 16, when they were visited by the USA and Thailand’s national badminton teams. Visitors included Andrew Smith of England, once ranked in the top 10 in the world in men’s singles …

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Conspiracy, or serial killer?
Two theories offered on unsolved 1974 murder of NB teens

“I can still picture it in my mind all these years later, that moment when they opened the curtain,” said Nancy Pryor. “When I saw the body, she had been gone a couple of days and had been beaten. They only showed me her face and my first reaction was, ‘That’s not her.’ But having …

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Will agency fill up canal behind railyard?
NJ Transit reveals plans for its federal flood windfall

A recent public symposium regarding $230 million in federal flood mitigation aid for Hoboken and its neighbors made at least one thing clear: choosing how to spend the money will be a massive intergovernmental undertaking. At the Jan. 20 meeting, Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner were joined by representatives from Jersey …

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NJ Transit reveals plans for its federal flood windfall

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