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LOUNGE WITH A MOVING VIEW – Passengers aboard the newly renovated Spirit of New Jersey can now enjoy the new top deck open air lounge complete with bar and cocktail service.
Come sail away
Spirit of NJ takes to sea after $1.5 million facelift

Three months and $1.5 million later, the 20-year-old Entertainment Cruises’ ship Spirit of New Jersey set sail with its new digs on May Day, carrying its passengers by the Statue of Liberty and th...
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RUNNING THE TRACK – A specially equipped Porsche Cayenne camera car was recently employed for on-track filming of a video to promote the race at the site of the 2013 Grand Prix of America at Port Imperial in Weehawken and West New York. With the New York City skyline in the background, the Porsche approached the top of the Palisades as the 3.2-mile track climbed more than 165 ft. above the Hudson River.
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Weehawken Council approves four-year union contract; requires residency of all township employees Weehawken Mayor Richard Turner and the Township Council approved a four-year American Federatio...
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NOBODY ELSE BUT KOLE – Jazz performer Hilary Kole regaled the audience at the Hudson Riverfront Performing Arts Center’s seventh annual fundraiser on April 28.
The shows must go on
Hudson River Performing Arts Center holds fundraiser at Chart House

Jazz singer Hilary Kole sat at a grand piano before an awed-to-silence audience of 200 on April 28 as she crooned David Mead’s “Blackberry Winter:” “Waiting in Penn station she is treading pins an...
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TEAM WEEHAWKEN! – Twenty-eight members of Team Weehawken, including Mayor Richard Turner and high school principal Peter Olivieri, walked the 3.1 miles across and back through the Lincoln Tunnel April 29 to raise money for the Special Olympics of New Jersey.
When tunnel traffic is a good thing
Team Weehawken takes on the 2012 Lincoln Tunnel Challenge

Thousands of people swarmed the parking lot across from the Weehawken Lincoln Tunnel entrance on the morning of April 29 in preparation for their walks and runs through the eastbound tube to benef...
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HOT WIRES? – As firefighters continue to investigate the cause of the Easter Sunday fire on Claremont Avenue (pictured) they are still exploring the possibility that an electrical problem may be to blame.
This old house
Built before modern-day construction codes, many Hudson County residences may be vulnerable to fires

April 3, 2011 Secaucus… Feb. 18, 2012, Jersey City… Hours later, Feb. 19, Hoboken... April 8, Easter Sunday, Jersey City… Several fires in Hudson County, including two this year in Jersey...
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A MORAL ISSUE – Freeholder Jose Munoz tried to get the freeholder board to pull advertising from a Spanish speaking newspaper.
Moral issue or political vendetta?
Munoz clashes with Rivera over pulling ad from newspaper

In a rare exchange of heated words with West New York Freeholder Jose Munoz, Freeholder Chairman Eliu Rivera said he would not allow a personal vendetta to influence which newspapers the Board of ...
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FINAL FRONTIER – The space shuttle Enterprise flew over the Hudson County waterfront on April 27 on the back of a carrier plane to the delight of thousands of spectators. (See brief.)
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Enterprise shuttled over west bank of the Hudson River After rainy weather delayed the flight of the Space Shuttle Enterprise for two days to the New York area, the spacecraft piggy-backed on a...
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MAYORAL TASTE – Weehawken held its 12th annual library fundraiser at the food court at Lincoln Harbor on Tuesday. Mayor Richard Turner (right) and Director of Administration and Operations Holly Pizzuta (left) took a few moments from their organizational duties to enjoy the bounty.
Weehawken, tasted
Annual fundraiser rakes in $15,000 for town library’s children’s programs

Peraveen Nair grew up in Weehawken. He worked in IT for many years before he finally took the plunge and made the first Indian restaurant to grace his town in 150 years a reality three years ago....
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KID’S CHOICE – Union City resident Alex Suarez (left) and her best friend and “Dora the Explorer” co-star Regan Mizrahi chat with press at the March 31 Kid’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles.
Being ‘Backpack’
UC child star acts alongside celebs, goes to Kids’ Choice Awards

Eleven-year-old Union City kid Alex Suarez recently dissected a worm and a frog at school. While she thought that was pretty cool, her class’s next victim is a pig. “I have mixed feelings about ...
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LIFE CYCLER – Weehawken native Cassie Tarakajian will bike 4,000 miles across the country after she graduates from Johns Hopkins in May in the 4K for Cancer for the Ulman Cancer Fund.
Cycle of life
Weehawken college graduate to bike 4,000 miles to raise cancer awareness

Most about-to-graduate college seniors with a great job lined up for the fall can’t wait to relax a bit, perhaps hit the beach, spend time with family and friends, take a load off. Weehawken nati...
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WOMAN OF MANY HATS – Weehawkenite Kay Miller sits with her dog Trixie beneath one of several portraits she painted that make up the self-authored, self-published, self-promoted children’s book, “Jews of the Wild West,” released in late March.
‘Jews of the Wild West’
Weehawken woman writes, illustrates, and publishes unique children’s book

What do you get when you mix Billy the Kid, Thurgood Marshall, some Apaches, a band of buffalo, a Weehawken art major, and years of Jewish genealogical research? Why, a brightly illustrated chi...
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PLAY BALL! – Weehawken High School senior Aicha Ndiaye sang the National Anthem at Weehawken Recreation’s baseball and softball opening day ceremonies last week. Pictured: Rich Steen, Mayor Richard Turner, Robert Ferullo, Anthony Stratton, Ndiaye, and Chris Verdon.
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Weehawken team to walk for women On Saturday, May 5, the Weehawken Hope and Cure team will participate in the 15th annual EIF Revlon Run/Walk for Women. Those who can’t join the walk can join...
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