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It’s a go!
Construction on new firehouse may start within a week
After several delays and rejection of bids on the construction of a new firehouse to be located at the foot of the former Military Ocean Terminal, the city is posed to finally award a contract. ...
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Celebrating with dance
HFA dance troupe puts on annual show
From the first day of school in September, the girls in Holy Family Academy’s dance troupe were looking toward the end of the year in anticipation of their May dance show. While the dancers do a...
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A WINDFALL FOR WINDMILL – The Windmill Alliance, which is currently in the middle of a capital improvement project, could see revenues from the city’s share of the Affordable Housing Fund.
State may make another money grab
City moves to stop state takeover of Affordable Housing funds
Seeking to protect some of the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund dollars, the City Council is expected to introduce an ordinance that would designate more than $1 million to the Windmill Allia...
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MAKING DO WITH LESS – Freeholders are seeking to find ways to stretch dollars now that the federal government slashed funding for welfare to work training programs.
Seeking new strategies
Freeholders revamp Work Force Development
Faced with a 75 percent cut in federal funding for its Work Force Development program, Hudson County Freeholders are seeking to revamp and make more efficient the programs that will help get peop...
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IN THIS BOX – Helmy Makarious said thousands of dollars in rare coins went missing from his apartment after a fire last December. Makarious said he was rushed to the hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation and when he got back this box was open and another like it was missing. He estimated the total value in both boxes at about $500,000.
Bayonne Briefs
Labor officer sentenced 30 months for embezzlement The former secretary treasurer of a New Jersey ironworkers’ union was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for embezzling more than $560,0...
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NOT REAL, BUT COULD BE – Emergency personnel from six counties got to work side by side in a simulated disaster.
Just in case
Bayonne Public Safety takes part in regional disaster
Even when the disaster is simulated, it scares the hell out of you. Bayonne Fire Chief Greg Rogers arrived on the scene of this year’s simulated disaster in time for the extraction of victims fr...
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PLENTY OF HONORS – There were more than a few heroes at this year’s 200 Club Valor Award ceremonies.
Everyday heroes
Public safety personnel, first responders honored by 200 Club of Hudson County
Four hours into a flight that was supposed to take them to Hawaii for a friend’s wedding, Jersey City police officers Paul Fennel and Robert Taino Jr. were confronted with a man who had clearly g...
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A REAL HONOR – Robert P. Fackina Jr. will receive The Lance Corporal Stanley J. Kopcinski Memorial Award on May 28.
Always a Marine at heart
Fackina receives 2012 Kopcinski Award
Longtime Bayonne residents would best remember Robert P. Fackina Jr. for a float he took part in at the annual Memorial Day Parades in the 1960s, where for several years he and other sons and nep...
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NOT BUDGING – Freeholder Bill O’Dea said he would oppose moves to introduce capital improvement bonds for Hudson County Community College unless the trustees agreed to implement project labor agreements for upcoming projects.
Holding their feet to the fire
Freeholders push county college to implement project labor agreements
After passing a resolution in March that would require the Hudson County Community College to implement Project Labor Agreements for ongoing and future construction projects that would require in...
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BAYONNE REMEMBERS 9/11 – A single yellow rose left in remembrance of one of the local victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks won a first place award for Al Sullivan.
Portraits of anguish and joy
Photos and profile win state-wide awards
The life of a gay artist, photographs from 9/11 ceremonies, images of a painful Holocaust loss, as well as reflections of hope and depictions of ordinary life brought The Hudson Reporter’s staff ...
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LAUGHING OUT LOUD – For one night only, comedian Erin Jackson is traveling back to her roots in New Jersey to perform at “Laugh Out Loud 3,” a night of comedy and fundraising for Gilda’s Club Northern New Jersey. Jackson will take the stage with three of her fellow female comedians in “Pumps and Punchlines” on May 19 at 8 p.m. at the Bergen PAC in Englewood. Gilda’s Club of Northern New Jersey assists people who are suffering from the impacts of cancer in 12 counties, including Hudson, Bergen and Essex. For more information about Jackson, visit her website at www.erinjackson.net. LOL3 tickets are $29 and $39 and can be purchased at Ticketmaster.com or by calling the Bergen PAC box office at (201) 227-1030. All proceeds benefit Gilda’s Club NNJ.
Bayonne Briefs
Three men arrested in Avenue C shooting Anthony Williams, 23, who was wounded as a result of a gun shot in car parked near Avenue C and 16th Street on Sunday, was charged with possession of m...
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A GATHERING OF COMMUNITY – Civic and religious leaders joined students and the general public to remember the impact of the Holocaust.
A evening to remember
Community comes together for Holocaust remembrance
First the flags came, and then the candles, old veterans clinging to the patriotic colors while young students held their hands around the flickering flame that was to symbolize memories of horro...
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