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Michael DeFusco (right) was sworn to a second four-year term on the Hoboken Zoning Board of Adjustment on Jan. 20. (Photo courtesy of Vanessa Mahapatra.)
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Hudson County Restaurant Week discounts and specials start Monday Hudson County Restaurant Week will feature great deals at local places to eat. The week-long extravaganza lasts from Jan. 26 to Feb...
Snowfall, Jan. 24, 2015 -- Washington Street in Hoboken, 2:40 a.m. By the time you read this, the rain may have washed it all away.
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HUDSON COUNTY -- The first significant snow of 2015 settled over Hudson County, New Jersey in the wee hours of Saturday morning, Jan. 24. However, then the rain washed it out of the streets by morn...
Joshua Breakstone (right), objector to the Meridia proposal, explains his opposition to his attorney.
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WEST NEW YORK – Opponents of a controversial 13-story building proposed for Boulevard East finally got their say in a stormy public session before the West New York Zoning Board of Adjustment on Ja...
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PARK PLANS—Assistant Business Administrator Stephen Marks answered questions from the City Council about the conceptual plan for the new Southwest Park Wednesday.
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The first stage of a planned Southwest Park could be ready for construction in July and completed by December, according to the landscape architecture firm contracted by Hoboken to produce a final ...
A view of the current industrial complex on Monroe Street between Ninth and Twelfth streets. An application to redevelop the plot as residential towers was rejected by the Zoning Board in November.
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Should property owners eager to move forward with major projects at the underdeveloped edges of Hoboken have to wait for the City Council to weigh in on the future of their neighborhoods, and if so...
SECOND HOME – A view of Hoboken’s American Legion Post 107 from the outside.
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The men of Hoboken’s American Legion returned to their post this past Tuesday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy, thanks to the generous aid of Hoboken businesses and the local Rotary Club. ...
UP IN ARMS – Real estate brokers and residents gave the planning board a lottof think about over a proposed at-sale inspection process
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The Planning Board has put off until March their decision on a proposal that would require sellers of property in Jersey City to get inspected before completing a sale. The plan introduced by Counc...
HELP FROM BAYONNE – A Bayonne-based organization helped distribute Sandy relief money to needy families and homeowners throughout Hudson County
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Hudson County has lost more than $2 million out of $4 million in Superstorm Sandy renter and home owner relief because agencies assigned to the task of finding people in need failed to reach out in...
OOHS AND AAHS – Kids watch the skaters from the sidelines at Newport Skates
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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 w...
902 Brewing’s cold storage facility is in Union City, where they were welcomed with a call from the mayor’s office.
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Hudson County is the smallest and most densely-populated county in New Jersey, and the sixth most densely-populated county in America. With all those people living here, it brings a question to the...
THE GOOD GUYS – Sgt. David Dowd, Det. Roberto Maldonado, Det. Victor Queiro, Inv. Hector Botello, and Inv. Carmen Recinos received awards from the Township of North Bergen for their part in the investigation. Also pictured are Michael Viruet Sr., Hudson County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Bruce Miller, ICE Agent John Belluardo, and FBI Special Agent Eric Perry.
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The driver who allegedly slammed into brothers Michael Viruet, 20, and Adrian, 11, in North Bergen on Nov. 14, sending both to the hospital with critical injuries, never stopped his car, law enforc...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION – The Harmony Foundation has rented space at 600 Meadowlands Parkway for a medical marijuana dispensary. Construction work is underway while they work through the state application process, which requires both a permit to grow and a permit to dispense product.
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Harmony Foundation in Secaucus is one of six Medicinal Marijuana Alternative Treatment Centers (ATCs) authorized in March 2011 to grow and dispense the herb in New Jersey – two each in the northern...
CLASS VALEDICTORIAN – Ryan Shea credits the Secaucus school system for giving him the tools to become a successful tech entrepreneur.
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“Passwords are ridiculous,” said Ryan Shea. “It’s such a hassle to deal with passwords on 100 different sites.” We’ve all felt that way at one time or another. The difference is that Shea is doing ...
SUCCESS – CASA volunteer Kim Castro is pictured with newly adopted Amanda.
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“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 hi...
LONG HISTORY – Mickey McCabe’s ambulance service has been a Bayonne staple for more than four decades.
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Two emergency medical services companies have bid on the new contract for the city’s ambulance services, but only one will come out a winner. So in the run-up to the decision to be announced at the...
U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez
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While many of Hudson County’s most influential people remain relevant year to year, their impact waxes and wanes. Influence can mean different things, not only political power. Artists, activists, ...
Paul Minnick
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Bayonne Medical Center’s management is changing, with former president Mark Spektor moving over to the Jersey City-based CarePoint Insurance, and newcomer Paul Minnick taking over the helm as chief...
SAVING LIVES – Police Officers Santos Benitez, Hector Rosa, and Brian Himsel received an award from Mayor Sacco and Chief Dowd for their part in reviving a two-year-old child that had stopped breathing. They were joined by the child and his mother and sister.
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Members of the North Bergen Police Department were honored on Thursday, Jan. 9 for the services they provide to the community every day of the year. Officers were cited for their hard work and quic...
Pictured is Mary Ann Pryor at about age 16, one year before she was killed. The picture was taken on vacation in Ortley Beach, N.J. The family took all vacations at the Jersey Shore while the sisters were growing up.
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“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. ...
ON THE STREET – Guttenberg police have been busy recently handling an assortment of crimes, including an assault based on mistaken identity and an altercation over a dog that led to a suspect fleeing across rooftops.
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Burglary, assault, drugs, DWI. The Guttenberg police have been busy cleaning up the streets recently, arresting wrongdoers for a variety of offenses. On Monday, Dec. 29 a resident on 68th Street he...
THE GOOD GUYS – Sgt. David Dowd, Det. Roberto Maldonado, Det. Victor Queiro, Inv. Hector Botello, and Inv. Carmen Recinos received awards from the Township of North Bergen for their part in the investigation. Also pictured are Michael Viruet Sr., Hudson County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Bruce Miller, ICE Agent John Belluardo, and FBI Special Agent Eric Perry.
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The driver who allegedly slammed into brothers Michael Viruet, 20, and Adrian, 11, in North Bergen on Nov. 14, sending both to the hospital with critical injuries, never stopped his car, law enforc...
One day a St. Augustine student might work in a laboratory doing real carbon decay.
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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 ...
Ken Howitt (L) and Karen Kelly (R) with their son, Francis Howitt, enter AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas for the first College Football Playoff Championship game on Monday, Jan. 12, with a copy of the Hoboken Reporter to read when action on the gridiron got slow.
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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 neig...
NOT ON THE TEAM – Commission Count Wiley would not be seduced by kind words. He said West New York needs a change.
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In a move that will have significant implications in the upcoming municipal elections, Gabriel Rodriguez was sworn-in on Jan. 21 by Mayor Felix Roque as a new member of the Board of Commissioners. ...
THE GOOD GUYS – Sgt. David Dowd, Det. Roberto Maldonado, Det. Victor Queiro, Inv. Hector Botello, and Inv. Carmen Recinos received awards from the Township of North Bergen for their part in the investigation. Also pictured are Michael Viruet Sr., Hudson County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Bruce Miller, ICE Agent John Belluardo, and FBI Special Agent Eric Perry.
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The driver who allegedly slammed into brothers Michael Viruet, 20, and Adrian, 11, in North Bergen on Nov. 14, sending both to the hospital with critical injuries, never stopped his car, law enforc...
St. Augustine students sent a whole sack of letters to the North Pole.
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St. Augustine School, Union City had a great day last month! Students from Grades pre-K through grade 3 went outside to their school parking to see their letters to Jolly St. Nick put outside their...
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