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Hoboken postal worker during the rains and flooding of May 9, 2013.
If you hate rain, you might want to leave New Jersey this week...but sun returns for Memorial Day weekend
HUDSON COUNTY -- The local Accuweather forecast for this week is rain, rain, rain, rain, and rain -- but then, sunshine emerges for Memorial Day weekend. For each day, Monday through Friday, at lea...
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Painting of nude Bea Arthur, done in Hoboken, sells for $1.9 M
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- A painting entitled “Bea Arthur Naked,” which depicts artist John Currin’s vision of how the “Golden Girls” star might appear without clothing, sold for $1.9 million to an ...
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Three JC council candidates may concede rather than face runoff...but they must sue to have names kept off ballot
JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND – On Monday the Office of the City Clerk will draw ballot positions for the June 11 runoff election for eight of the nine council wards. Some candidates whose names are ex...
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Will New Jersey raise smoking age to 21?
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- Hoboken-based Assemblyman Ruben Ramos plans to sponsor legislation in the state Assembly to move the age of buying tobacco products from 19 to 21. He joined lawmakers in Ne...
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N.J. authority expected to OK American Dream plan to add indoor amusement, water parks
MEADOWLANDS -- According to an article in the Record on Thursday, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority is expected to sign off tomorrow on a developer's plan to add water parks and i...
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The merger with Barnabas Health will allow Jersey City Medical Center to draw top specialists to its hospital who do not currently have a relationship with the facility. Pictured: Jersey City Medical Center President and CEO Joseph F. Scott (left) and Barnabas Health CEO Barry Ostrowsky sign merger agreement on May 16.
Merger keeps local hospital nonprofit
Jersey City Medical Center to join Barnabas Health system

A year after Jersey City Medical Center (JCMC) lost a bid to take over Christ Hospital, the medical center announced that it will become part of Barnabas Health, the largest nonprofit healthcare ...
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Jennifer Segovia, Emily Ruiz, Jose Nieto, Antonio Hernandez, Kevin Lata, Sophia Lugo, and Cristy Rijo
School without walls
Reservoir-based program gives students hand-on science experience

Can tomato plants be successfully transferred from a traditional growing environment to a student-designed floating garden in the Jersey City Reservoir? At press time, the answer to this question...
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On Friday, May 2, the students of Saint Dominic Academy, Jersey City voted to elect a new student council executive board for the 2013-2014 school year. The newly-elected officers are Cara Keating of Weehawken, who will serve as student council president; the positions of vice-president and secretary will be held by Shayla Vazquez and Nikita Pandya, respectively, both of Jersey City. The treasurer will be Lauren Healy of Union City. All of the new officers are rising seniors and will work under the advisement of Gaylor Wade. Saint Dominic Academy 2013-2014 Student Council Executive Board (from left to right): President Cara Keating; Vice President Shayla Vazquez; Secretary Nikita Pandya; and Treasurer Lauren Healy.
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Library, Curious Matter team up for new exhibit The Jersey City Free Public Library, in special collaboration with Curious Matter Gallery, will host the joint art exhibit “A Time in Arcadia,” ...
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There are a total of 37 candidates running for 10 municipal seats. Some candidates are running together on a slate, others are running independently on their own.
Signs don’t vote, but residents can
May 14 Election Day is finally here

What is arguably the most closely-watched political race in New Jersey this year will finally take place this week, after years of anticipation and build-up, and months of political rancor among t...
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Right now, cities from New York to Secaucus are lobbying and jockeying to line up funding and other support for their Super Bowl-related activities.
Super Bowl prep
As preliminary plans come together, local towns search for funding, profits

With the weather heating up, baseball in full swing, and the NBA playoffs just around the corner, it may not seem like time to think about 2013-2014 football season. But with MetLife Stadium playi...
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Kay Magilavy (far right), president of the Temple Beth-El board, fields questions from residents regarding the synagogue’s plans to sell 71 Bentley Ave (inset) at the May 9 community meeting.
Back to the drawing board
Temple, residents nix senior development to back open space plan

In a rare turn of events, a community came together to push back against an unwanted development – and won. Early last week, residents in the West Side neighborhood near Lincoln Park learned, most...
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FACING THE MUSIC – County Executive Tom DeGise introduced the county budget, saying some towns will get hit harder than others.
Will your taxes rise?
Secaucus, Weehawken, Hoboken will suffer most from new $304M county budget

Your property taxes are made up of city taxes, school taxes, and county taxes – the last of which will depend on a $304 million budget that was introduced by the county freeholders last week. This...
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Multi-media artists Trish Szymanski in her art installation “The Road Home: Art is a Risky Business,” which she debuted during the 2012 Artists’ Studio Tour. See brief, page 2.
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Noted local artist uses crowd funding concept to find a place to live Local Jersey City artists Trish Szymanski has launched a crowd funding campaign on www.YouCaring.com to raise $3,000 so sh...
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Will ward candidates face a runoff?
As races enter the home stretch, it’s the independents applying much of the pressure

If there is one thing the two main mayoral campaigns agree on it is this: there will be runoffs after Election Day, Tuesday, May 14, most likely in some of the city’s six wards. Hard campaigning ...
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What path for ‘underperforming’ schools?
Town hall meeting planned for May 4

At press time on May 3, some Jersey City education advocates were gearing up for a planned town hall meeting on education on Saturday, May 4. Billed as the Town Hall Meeting on Education Issues an...
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Following his untimely death last month, friends remembered Robert “Kwame” Daughtry Jr. as an avid reader and chess player.
Voice for ‘The People’s U’ lost
Library, community activist Robert Daughtry passes

About five years ago, when a city budget crisis forced layoffs and furloughs of municipal workers and cuts in city services, the Jersey City Free Public Library also became a casualty of the Grea...
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Throughout this year, Knitting for Good volunteers will make items the group hopes to donate later to the homeless and sick.
Helping hands
New knitting, crochet group hopes to give comfort to the homeless and ill

Every year, usually around the holidays, local shelters and volunteer groups make a request for donations of “gently used” clothing for the city’s homeless population. Despite their pleas, howeve...
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