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Hoboken-North Hudson YMCA suspends health and family programming to prepare for expansion
Posted March 19, 2010
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND — The Hoboken-North Hudson YMCA announced today that it has suspended health and family programming at its facility at 1301 Washington St. in preparation for a ...
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Conflicts of interest at Hoboken City Hall
Posted March 19, 2010
HOBOKEN — At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Councilman Michael Russo again complained about what he perceives to be a conflict of interest because the City Council recently hired loc...
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Guttenberg Housing Authority claims it never received request for documents
GUTTENBERG AND BEYOND - After waiting more than seven days for a Open Public Records Act request, the time by law where government bodies must respond, the Reporter contacted the Guttenb...
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The tail of the ‘abandoned’ Hoboken dog…
Posted March 19, 2010
HOBOKEN – A reader wrote in to share this incident that happened Thursday on Garden Street: Thursday morning, a gorgeous black lab was left abandoned and leashed to a gate by a dry cleaner fo...
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In wake of aid cuts, JC school board votes down teacher contract with 4 percent raises; teachers furious
Posted March 19, 2010
JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND — The Jersey City Board of Education, during a raucous and contentious meeting on Thursday, by a 4-4-1 vote decided not to approve a contract that would gi...
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PLAN FOR THE PIER – The city is trying to find funding sources for pier repairs, but they also need to be prepared and show commitment to the project. The council approved the $12 million in bonds for this purpose. $12M to fix piers
Council approves bonds; no money spent yet, more research needed

Damn the teredos! Taxpayers could...
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Jersey City News
FIRST TO GO TO JAIL – Former Jersey City government employee Guy Catrillo reports to Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution in South Jersey on Monday at noon to serve an 18-month sentence for accepting $15,000 cash in three payments from the federal government’s “cooperating witness,” Solomon Dwek. Exclusive interview: Guy says goodbye
First man to go to jail in corruption bust talks about sting, Dwek, and taking responsibility

When Guy Catrillo reports to Fort D...
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Weehawken News
VETERANS OF TIME – Joe Fredericks and Joe Bradley of the VFW included their charter, photos, and a list of members. Back to the future
Weehawken time capsule dedicated and sealed

March 14, 2059. The newspaper artic...
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Secaucus News
DIGGING DEEPER – Area mass transit users are angry over fare increases and other proposed transit changes. All (not) on board
Residents fear NJ Transit service cuts, fare hikes

Jon Salmanson spent his evenings la...
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Midweek Reporter
RUST by Laurel Brooks
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Filling the windows
Local art group hopes to spruce up empty Hoboken storefronts
by Timothy J. Carroll
Reporter staff writer
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Hob’art, the Hoboken-based cooperati...

Bayonne News
NEW FACES – Mayor Mark Smith unveiled a ticket that included mostly new people, part of his plan to change the direction of the city. A new era begun?
Smith unveils ticket for May election

For weeks, you couldn’t walk down B...
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North Bergen News
NO MORE PHOTOS – The Guttenberg Housing Authority’s meeting last month. At a more recent meeting, a GHA staffer requested that no photos be taken without advance notice. The secret contract
Housing Authority declines to discuss what they voted on

At their most recent meeting on Mar...
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Union City News
TWO PLACES – Justin Mercado, a former member of the Union City Zoning Board, is alleged by a private investigation to have been a resident of this home in Hasbrouck Heights for at least the past three years. But Mercado says he lives in Union City, in a building containing the auto parts shop where he used to work. Residency mystery
Ex- Zoning Board member’s address still unclear

A critic of the Union City mayoral ...
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West New York News
HELP FOR THE HOLIDAYS – Students from Memorial High School’s “MoMs” group helped out last year at the Bowery Mission Transitional Center in New York City. ‘MoMs’ reach out
WNY high school students spread love through charities

West New York teenager Steven Ramir...
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