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Hoboken barber shop to be featured on 'Cake Boss' Monday night
HOBOKEN — Who says local businesses don’t benefit from the Cake Boss’s success? Mr. L’s Hair Creations, a barber shop at Sixth Street and Park Avenue in Hoboken, will ...
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EXCLUSIVE IN THIS WEEKEND'S PAPERS: Public housing tenants' personal info compromised, but agency won't say why
GUTTENBERG AND BEYOND — Residents of Guttenberg’s subsidized public housing projects are afraid their personal information could be misused now that the Guttenberg Housing Authority...
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NB man indicted for allegedly murdering Miami cop
NORTH BERGEN AND BEYOND — According to police, a North Bergen man who had been in Hudson County Jail since a West New York arrest last year was recently indicted by a Miami grand ...
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Hoboken hospital board votes to look for buyers
HOBOKEN - The Hoboken Municipal Hospital Authority board met Wednesday and took a step – according to City Hall – to look for new buyers for Hoboken’s only hospital. The city made a point of...
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Train tunnel through Hudson Co. could increase property values $29K
HUDSON COUNTY — Good news, residents of Hudson County’s northern towns: A train tunnel presently under construction through the area into New York City could increase property v...
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BACK HOME – Four of the five sisters returned on Tuesday to the site of the Hoboken orphanage where they had lived for a few years in the early 1960s. From left: Frances Warren, Denise Chemidlin, Gloria Southard, and Joyce Brewer. Sister Elizabeth “Betty” Southard (not pictured) also joined them for some events. Out of a Hoboken orphanage
Five sisters reunite in hometown after 40 years

For a few years before the Mary Stevens Hammond Home for Children on Park Avenue in Hoboken closed for good in 1964, two of the children staying there, Denise Chemidlin and usually one of her fou...
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FOR THE RECORD – If Gov. Chris Christie signs recently amended legislation about government documents, taxpayers will be able to get copies of them more cheaply. Get gov’t documents – cheap!
Public records cost reduction awaits Christie’s signature

Fees for obtaining public records will be dramatically lowered if Gov. Christopher Christie signs legislation that was unanimously passed by both houses of the state legislature last month in res...
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POLICE BEAT
Neighbor says noise from alleged marijuana owner woke his cats Police were phoned last Saturday, July 17 by a Garden Street man who called to complain that he had been dealing with frequent noi...
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Peter Cammarano What’s changed since corruption busts a year ago?
18 have pleaded guilty, Feb. trial date set for Elwell

A trial date was set for former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell and one of his political associates last week, just days before the one-year anniversary of the massive New Jersey corruption scandal ...
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FEAST HIGHLIGHTS TO COME – The annual St. Ann’s Festival began Wednesday with music, rides, food, and religious observances near St. Ann’s Church at Seventh and Jefferson streets. It continues through this Monday. On Monday, Archbishop John J. Myers, fifth Archbishop of Newark, will celebrate the 100th Anniversary Mass at 11 a.m. at the church. Immediately following the mass, hundreds of women devotees will carry the statue of St. Ann through the streets of Hoboken for several hours. The festival closes later that day with a birthday cake from Carlo’s Bakery on the Main Stage, and opera singer Cristina Fontanelli (pictured) will perform with the Jordan Thomas Orchestra. HOBOKEN BRIEFS
Anti-Semitic bias crime reported An act of graffiti that police are labeling a bias crime occurred on Bloomfield Street in Hoboken some time before Wednesday morning, according to a police repo...
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NEW CHAPTER – Mary Tremitiedi is among several senior school district staff members who recently retired. Last week, she looked back on her 38 years in the Hoboken public schools. Several principals leaving Hoboken schools
Changes in state benefits may be behind mass exodus

With 35 retirements or resignations expected by the end of August, the Hoboken School District will see an unusually high number of staff changes when classes start again in September. On Thursda...
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FROM THE MOUTHS OF BABES – Olivia Moran, 5, tells Councilman Nino Giacchi what she wants to change about Church Square Park. How to improve Church Square Park
Activists, ‘Project Play’ parents, and 5-year-old girl share ideas at City Hall

Olivia Moran, 5, of Hoboken has a complaint about Church Square Park in the center of town. She quietly gave her opinion to 6th Ward Councilman Nino Giacchi at a public hearing on park improvemen...
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ITALIAN FEAST – The St. Ann’s Feast will offer over 80 vendors, live performances every night, and the famous zeppoles. What’s different in this year’s ‘Feast’
Popular St. Ann’s Festival turns 100 years old, starts Wednesday

One of the largest Italian-American festivals in New Jersey – the Feast of St. Ann – turns 100 this summer and will include some new additions when it kicks off for six days this week. Thousands ...
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CONTENTIOUS MEETING – As usual, two factions of the City Council traded criticism over various issues at the Hoboken City Council meeting Thursday night. ‘Sycophants and campaign contributors’
Council members argue over board appointments, closing street for city garage

Wednesday night saw yet another contentious and well-attended Hoboken City Council meeting, with officials and members of the public arguing over salaries, mayoral board appointments, and especia...
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SHAKESPEARE UPCOMING – Bjorn Pederson (center right), Monica O’Malley (center left), Noelle Fair (left), and Jon Ciccarelli (right) are among the performers who are part of the Hudson Shakespeare Company. The group will present a production of “Much Ado About Nothing” on July 19 in Hoboken and “The Tempest” on Aug. 2 and 9, also in Hoboken, and on Aug. 20 in Jersey City. Much ado about Shakespeare
Hudson theater group has shows through rest of summer

William Shakespeare, history’s preeminent playwright, has gotten the Hudson County treatment every year for the past 19 years. The Hudson Shakespeare Company, with a home base at St. Mary’s High ...
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SOFTBALL ‘SHOCKERS’ PLAY IN STATE TOURNEY – Mayor Dawn Zimmer congratulated the Hoboken Shockers last week on winning the Northern New Jersey division championship. The Babe Ruth 16 and under girls softball team was undefeated in both districts and states and was scheduled to play at the Middle Atlantic Regional Tournament in Egg Harbor this weekend. Team members Sybil Lynch, Jade Bracero, Natalie Classen, Samantha Maldonado, and Ashley Andujar were also congratulated by Maria Pepe, a nationally-recognized trailblazer for girls’ sports when she fought to play on Hoboken Little League in the 1970s. HOBOKEN BRIEFS
City to hold public workshops on redesigning certain neighborhoods The city received last year $240,000 in federal funding for improving safety along Newark Street between River Street and Wash...
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EMPTY LOT – Hoboken’s uptown Enterprise Rent-A-Car was on land owned by the Rockefeller Group, a development company based in New York, but moved to a downtown location in March. 40-story office tower just an idea
But several uptown buildings now pay rent to developer with big plans

Despite a recent report that a New York development company is putting the finishing touches on plans for a large commercial complex in northern Hoboken, town officials say the developers would s...
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