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Dancing on ice
Ice Theater of New York puts on a show at Newport Skates

More than an hour before they were slated to perform, champion figure skaters Jessica Huot, Christian Erwin and skaters from Ice Theater of New York took to the ice, weaving around public skaters with amazing ease. While this served as a warm up for their scheduled demonstration at the Newport Skates rink in Jersey City …

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Filming on the Bluff
Thriller movie shot in Weehawken

Hollywood came to Weehawken last month when a new film underwent principal photography in the tony Bluff section overlooking the Hudson River. The name of the movie is “Manhattan Nocturne,” according to what crew members told a neighbor, an independent film described as a “murder/mystery like Basic Instinct.” One neighbor said that Oscar-winning actor Adrien …

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Science leads at St. Augustine
Students examine carbon-decay, mixing household products

The eighth grade students at the St. Augustine School in Union City recently completed a science lab to model carbon-14 dating and study what physical and chemical changes occur when mixing baking soda and vinegar. Using red and green squares, students modeled the decay of carbon-14 atoms by demonstrating the concept of half-life. Not to …

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Reporter on Vacation
Take a photo with your newspaper and send it in!

If you’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! We’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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‘CASA’ means home
Group advocating for foster children needs volunteers, donations

“Peter” has had a rougher start to life than most. At 3 years old, he sustained a thigh fracture, which became infected, and landed him in the hospital for two months. His mother said he injured his leg while playing. But that wasn’t Peter’s only plight. Not too long later, he and sister “Naomi” were …

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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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MULICKI, HENRY J.

A funeral mass was offered Jan. 17 at Our Lady of Czestochowa Church for Henry J. Mulicki, 91, of Jersey City. He died Jan. 13 at the Jersey City Medical Center. He was born in Jersey City. Henry was a WWII Army Veteran and a recipient of the Purple Heart. He was retired from the …

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DEP: Hoboken flood barriers 7 to 10 years away
Levees could reach as much as 16 feet above sea level

Après le déluge, la bureaucratie. Some 813 days after Superstorm Sandy made landfall in New Jersey, and 232 days after a flood mitigation proposal for the Lower Hudson won $230 million in the federal Rebuild by Design competition, the relief money has yet to be disbursed to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP). …

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Levees could reach as much as 16 feet above sea level

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