Midweek Reporter
CELEBRATING BOOKS – The Jersey City Free Public Library will hold its third annual A Tale of Our City book festival (last year’s festival pictured) on Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Van Vorst Park on Montgomery Street in downtown Jersey City. Meet the authors!
Jersey City library’s annual book festival includes author readings, fun for kids

The Jersey City Free Public Library will feature a variety of writing talent at its third annual A Tale of Our City book festival on Sept. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Van Vorst Park on Montgomer...
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THE ZOMBIES AMONG US – Bayonne natives play roles in a new movie about zombie fans. It’s a zombie world after all
Independent film shot in Bayonne

Blaming George Romero isn’t a film about zombies, although filmmaker Brad Resnick and the film’s writer, Sam Platizky, are die hard fans of zombie movies. The film is about people just like the...
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OBSESSED WITH THE LIVING DEAD – Touching on the classic gothic horror tale of vampire myth, “Vampire in Union City” follows the quest of a demented man obsessed with death and the living dead as he roams Union City. Vamped up
UC plays host to first, but hopefully not last, film premiere

This coming weekend, the “undead” will roam through Union City and the streets will run red – with plush carpeting. On Friday, Sept. 3, at 8 p.m., Union City will host its first-ever world premie...
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AGAINST MOVING THE MONUMENT – Bob Terzi says no other view will do for Bayonne’s 9/11 monument, which is why he’s against moving it. Keeping Bayonne clean
Taxi driver committed to anti-litter campaign

The sign on the front dash board of “Capt.” Bob Terzi’s Yellow Cab says it all: “Please don’t litter.” A former stagehand from a family of Broadway and off-Broadway stagehands, Terzi, a resident ...
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My Kind of Danger
This is it in a nutshell—going to the Dairy Queen in summer. My county is full of frustrated people struggling to make ends meet. They depend on cones, shakes, ice cream sandwiches, floats, ice p...
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IT’S A HOBOKEN THING – Five men take a break to enjoy their sandwiches from Vito’s on Washington Street in Hoboken on a Friday afternoon. MIDWEEK BRIEFS
Liberty Humane Society gets two week reprieve JERSEY CITY AND HOBOKEN - The state Department of Health and Senior Services is giving Liberty Humane Society of Jersey City two weeks t...
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RARE TOMATOES – The 11th annual “Heirloom Tomato Tasting Festival” at the Hoboken Historical Museum takes place on Aug 29 from 1 to 5 p.m., featuring 40 strands of rare tomatoes bred on the Catalpa Ridge Farm near High Point, N.J. Pictured: Museum President Bob Foster. Rarely red
Popular heirloom tomato tasting returns

Rich Sisti knows his tomatoes. Like a vintner of fine wines, Sisti, a native of Paterson, has crafted and maintained unique strands of tomatoes, known as heirlooms, for the past 15 years at his f...
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SHOWING THEIR PRIDE - This Saturday, the 10th Annual LGBT Pride Festival will take place in Exchange Place in downtown Jersey City. This year’s festival will be different from last year’s festival (pictured) with a rally at City Hall followed by a march from City Hall to the festival site. Ten years later and even prouder
LGBT festival in downtown JC this Saturday

Paul Mendoza remembered when he and his domestic partner, Miguel Cardenas, moved to downtown Jersey City in the late 1990s. “There wasn’t much of a gay scene back then,” Mendoza said. “A lot of p...
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TICKETED AND FINED – The township issued eight to 10 summonses to bus drivers idling along Boulevard East while waiting for passengers to take in the view of Manhattan. No idling for skyline photo ops
Tourist buses ticketed along Weehawken’s Boulevard East

Idling tourist buses along Weehawken’s waterfront have township officials fuming. Tourism at Hamilton Park on Boulevard East, which provides spectacular views of Manhattan, has increased in the p...
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CLINTON’S PICTURE EVERYWHERE -- Vasantha Perera posted the photo of former President Bill Clinton in several places in Andrew’s Café. Clinton autographed one of them when he paid the café a visit in July. Bill Clinton visits local eatery
Former president surprises former White House chef

When Secret Service agents walked through the front door of Andrew’s Café in Bayonne in July, the owner, Vasantha M. Perera, didn’t know what to think. Formerly a chef at the White House during t...
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Bandito
Berg saw the ad in the Help Wanted section and didn’t have to contemplate long. “Bandito Wanted” is what he read, along with contact details. Berg had been a mortgage broker who’d lost his job in...
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LOONEY TUNES – This stuffed Sylvester doll in the Hoboken dog run probably didn’t see any other “putty tats.” In fact, it appears that he was severely trampled by some of the mile-square city’s murdering mutts. He was spotted in the Church Square Park dog run a week ago Monday. Hopefully, Tuesday was better for him. Somewhere, Tweetybird is laughing. MIDWEEK BRIEF
Attempts to identify headless body continue JERSEY CITY – The state Regional Medical Examiner’s Office in Newark is bringing in a forensic anthropologist to try to identify the remains of...
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