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NJ Transit ready to take on overflow due to strike
SECAUCUS AND BEYOND - Thousands of mass transit users, including many in Secaucus, were forced to find alternative routes to and from work today after drivers, mechanics, and other DeCamp...
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North Bergen Democratic Committee raises most $ in state
NORTH BERGEN AND BEYOND – According to the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission, the North Bergen Democratic Municipal Committee raised the highest campaign donations in the s...
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Police arrest teens in connection with shooting near city park
JERSEY CITY — Seven teenagers were arrested this week for their involvement in a shooting on Saturday night near Pershing Field, the city park located in the Heights section. Police s...
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RECAP: The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Season 2 – Reunion show, Part I
Editor’s Note: It’s almost over. Hoboken-based comedienne Eileen Budd is kind enough to recap the ‘reunion’ show of Bravo’s angry, hair-pulling reality series, the Real Housewives of New Jersey....
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Hurricane Earl moving up the Atlantic Coast
STATEWIDE — The next 24-48 hours will determine how great a threat Hurricane Earl poses to the New York metropolitan area, according to various sources. Hurricane Earl remains a major h...
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HE WANTS CHANGE – Former downtown Jersey City resident Jesse Turner spoke at La Conguita Restaurant on Grove Street in Jersey City on Wednesday. It was one stop on a walk he is taking this summer from his current home state of Connecticut to Washington D.C. to protest national education policies such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. Walking the walk
Jersey City native treks from Connecticut to DC to raise awareness of education crisis

Jesse Turner has lost almost 60 pounds since he started a protest walk from his home in New Britain, Conn. in June that will end in Washington, D.C. The distance is approximately 300 miles, but h...
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APPROVED SQUARE PLAN – The City Council approved the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan at their Wednesday meeting. Journal Square Councilwoman Nidia Lopez was one of the eight council members who voted in the affirmative. Journal Square plan OK’d by City Council
50-year plan calls for revitalization of 211 acres in city’s center

The City Council approved the Journal Square 2060 Redevelopment Plan by an 8-0 vote at their meeting on Wednesday. The plan calls for the revitalization of 211 acres, divided into nine zones. One...
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HERE’S A SUGGESTION – Downtown Jersey City resident Warren Curtin lives near Hamilton Park, and suggested how the city can deal with its current financial problems. Bright ideas for a dark subject
Downtown residents’ suggestions for the city’s financial problems

Facing residents irate about their increasing tax burden and an estimated $80 million municipal budget deficit, Jersey City officials are searching for ways to get the cost of government under co...
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VOLUNTEERS – Eileen Markenstein heads a volunteer board of trustees who have chosen to restore the Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery as a place of dignity and history. Preserving a sacred place
Volunteers bring new life to cemetery left for dead

The Jersey City & Harsimus Cemetery looked like it had been left for dead two years ago. Abandoned by its caretakers, weeds covered the tombstones and homeless men and women were camping out ...
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REPUBLICAN RUNNNING – Henrietta Dwyer is the Republican candidate in the race for the 13th Congressional District this fall. She is running against incumbent Albio Sires. Republican on the run
Congressional candidate takes on politics in a Democratic county

Though “diminutive” in size, West New York resident and Union City native Henrietta Dwyer has been ruffling a few big feathers in Hudson County politics lately, and she’s not making any apologies...
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CELEBRATING PUERTO RICAN PRIDE – At the Jersey City Puerto Rican Day Parade last Sunday, Aug. 22, one of the honorees was Hudson County Sheriff’s Officer of the Year, Osbado Hernandez. From left to right: Hudson County Sheriff’s Lt. Jose Gonzalez, Puerto Rican Sheriff’s Officer of the Year Osbado Hernandez, Sheriff Juan Perez, and Sheriff’s Public Information Officer Robert Knapp. JERSEY CITY BRIEFS
Holiday Hudson Reporter editorial and advertising deadlines Because of the Labor Day holiday, some of the Hudson Reporter newspapers will have special advertising deadlines. For the Sept. 8 edi...
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GETTING SHELTER IN SHAPE – The Liberty Humane Society, which runs Jersey City’s animal shelter, held its board meeting at City Hall on Tuesday and discussed an upcoming state inspection and its euthanasia policy. Debate over killing animals at shelter
25 dogs euthanized in last month; new board works on problems

Concerned residents packed a conference room at City Hall on Tuesday night for a meeting of the board of the Liberty Humane Society, which runs Jersey City’s only animal shelter. Along with expre...
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DOING HIS RESEARCH – Downtown Jersey City resident Peter O’Reilly has two children in the Jersey City public school system. His involvement in his children’s education has led him to analyze statistics about the Jersey City school district. Downtown parents fight for better schools
Mom criticizes P.S. 3 overcrowding; father analyzes disturbing state stats

Felicia Palmer’s 6-year-old son, Jordan-River Samuel, attends first grade at Public School 3 on Bright Street in downtown Jersey City. When her son enrolled in the Jersey City public school syste...
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HALL OF FAMER – St. Anthony basketball coach Bob Hurley addresses the audience at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame a week ago Friday after receiving his Hall of Fame blazer at a press conference with the inductees. Photo by Jim Hague. In company of Michael Jordan, Larry Bird
Legendary JC Coach Hurley talks about Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction

He had just finished the best acceptance speech among all the newest members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame a week ago Friday when Jersey City’s Bob Hurley stepped away from the...
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REMEMBERING SLAIN OFFICER – Mary DiNardo, the widow of slain Jersey City police officer Marc DiNardo, takes a snapshot of her late husband’s photograph on the “Wall of Heroes.” The wall on the second floor of Jersey City Medical Center is dedicated to organ donors. 12-year-old boy’s heart saved her life
Wall of organ donors unveiled at Medical Center

When Edison Hernandez, 12, of Jersey City, died in an accident in December of 2003, Mae Howard of South Jersey got his heart. Young Edison Hernandez was one of the organ donors who will live on t...
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ME AND MY MURAL – Jersey City artist Natalie Giugni stands next to her mural, “Fire Gods,” one of over 40 on display by local artists as part of the “Deck the Hall” exhibit that runs in City Hall through the end of September. Local artists larger than life
Wall-sized murals to be displayed through September

Mural art, often reserved for the great outdoors, has come to the second and third floor walls of City Hall in downtown Jersey City, and local artists were there. On Tuesday, the city held an ope...
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WANTING CHANGE – Former downtown Jersey City resident Jesse Turner spoke at La Conguita Restaurant on Grove Street in Jersey City on Wednesday. It was a stop on a walk he is taking this summer from his current home state of Connecticut to Washington D.C. to protest national education policies such as No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top. JERSEY CITY BRIEFS
Correction In the Aug. 12 edition of the Midweek Reporter , a news item in the briefs section, “JC resident, head of union fund pleads guilty to kickbacks” incorrectly listed the name of the u...
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