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Sen. Lautenberg joins Hoboken Mayor Zimmer to announce restoration of Planned Parenthood funding
HOBOKEN – Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D – NJ), with Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer and Michele Jaker, the executive director of Planned Parenthood Affiliated of New Jersey, by his side, announced the re...
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Hey, Hudson County, New Jersey - What's in the Hudson Reporter newspapers this weekend?
HUDSON COUNTY -- There are some scoops and exclusive articles in this weekend's Hudson Reporter newspapers for Hudson County, New Jersey, on topics that affect your life. Check out the print e...
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Monroe Center in Hoboken to hold ‘open studio day’
HOBOKEN - Hoboken’s Monroe Center on Monroe Street, which includes art galleries, is planning an ‘open studio day’ in February in which artists can come exhibit and sell their works to the publi...
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Former Giant Amani Toomer to take TV viewers on tour of Weehawken 'man cave;' Jet Muhammed Wilkerson goes house-hunting in JC on Super Bowl Sunday
WEEHAWKEN, JERSEY CITY, AND BEYOND -- Former New York Giants wide-receiver and current Weehakwen resident Amani Toomer will take fans on a televised tour of his newly renovated, self-proclaimed ...
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Meeting about southwest redevelopment in Hoboken canceled after too many people show up
HOBOKEN - It's been six years since the entire southwest redevelopment process started, so what's another few weeks? The Hoboken Planning Board had to cancel the scheduled hearing on the sout...
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DO YOU RECYCLE? – Single stream recycling has eased the process for Hoboken residents.
Where your trash goes
Residents’ recycling spikes by 50 percent with single stream method

Residents in Hoboken are recycling much more than they were 10 months ago – because now, it’s easier. Ever since the city decided to switch to “single stream” recycling in April 2011, which means...
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PROTECTED? Tenants in rent-controlled apartments are supposed to be receiving disclosure statements, but no enforcement methods are in place.
Are new tenants getting info about their rights?
Hoboken referendum made it law, but there’s seemingly no enforcement in place

When Hoboken residents voted in November to approve changes to the city’s controversial 1973 rent control law, many of the changes were seen as benefiting property owners, but there was a provisi...
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MORE PARKS ARE COMING – Mayor Dawn Zimmer made parks a top priority during her State of the City address on Wednesday night.
Mayor: Parks will open in 2012
In State of City address, Zimmer also addresses St. Pat’s Parade, various accomplishments

Mayor Dawn Zimmer proclaimed 2012 “The Year of Parks” in her second annual State of the City address on Wednesday night. Zimmer gave a 30-minute speech in front of approximately 175 residents an...
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PEACE AT LAST – Weehawkenite Christine Cornell (pictured with her Conyer, Bubba), who is no stranger to the sounds of birds, was driven nearly nuts by a looping anti-pigeon tape played at the Pathmark that seemed to project straight into her yard.
Bird brains
Supermarket’s tape of hawk noises drives local residents crazy

Christine Cornell is no bird-hater. In fact, she keeps 11 fine feathered friends as pets. But she isn’t so happy about the fake bird noises that have been heard repeatedly by her and her neighbors...
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MARKETING MAVEN – Elizabeth Barry of Elizabeth Barry and Associates has helped propel the work of the Women in Business Council.
Where enterprising women meet
New business council offers support, connections, resources

Female Hoboken entrepreneurs and business leaders have found opportunities to connect with their like-minded peers with the emergence of the Women in Business Council, launched last year as part ...
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GOING RED – Hoboken High School students and teachers participated in a “Go Red for Women’s Health” campaign sponsored by the American Heart Association. The Go Red for Women campaign encourages awareness of the issue of heart disease and women, and action to save more lives. The students have created a music video (seen photo above) entitled, “Hoboken High School goes Red 2012.” The video will be aired on Hoboken’s channel 77 in the coming weeks, as well as on YouTube and the American Heart Association Web site.
HOBOKEN BRIEFS
Monarch development proposal to be heard before local Planning Board The controversial Monarch at Shipyard development proposal for uptown Hoboken will be heard before the local Planning Boar...
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LOOKING FOR A HOME – Frank Monte Magno, who was born without hips, has been searching unsuccessfully for a handicapped-accessible home in the city’s public housing system.
City employee’s public housing dilemma
Disabled native Hobokenite can’t get into projects or senior housing

After a day of work in the City Clerk’s office, clerk typist Frank Monte Magno, 62, takes the city’s senior citizen bus home, then walks up to his third floor apartment on Grand Street. Monte Magn...
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NEW KITCHEN ON THE WAY? - Jaclyn Cherubini, the executive director of the Hoboken Homeless Shelter, said the next project is the renovation of their kitchen.
Cold, cold nights
Where Hoboken’s homeless go

For three decades, in good times and bad, the Hoboken Homeless Shelter on Bloomfield Street has provided beds and meals to help homeless persons stabilize their lives, and programs designed to op...
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NEW GALLERY – The Monroe Center is now the home of Hob’art, a previously nomadic art gallery that recently opened. The lobby of the Monroe Center, seen here, was recently renovated to display resident artists’ work.
Art galleries abound
Third gallery in Hoboken opening as Monroe Center continues expansion

Nestled in the western portion of Hoboken at 720 Monroe St., the Monroe Center is now the home of the city’s newest art gallery, Hob’art, the third Hoboken-based gallery set to open its doors in t...
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SHOULD IT BE CANCELLED? – The Hoboken St. Patrick’s Day Parade won t be held anywhere this year.
Council, residents discuss parade cancellation
More legal parking created by vote at meeting

The City Council legalized new parking spots closer to street corners, authorized the purchase of two new police cars, and briefly discussed the cancellation of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at a ...
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NEW DOC – Dr. Ramesh Babu, M.Ch, M.D. recently began work in Hoboken University Medical Center and Bayonne Medical Center.
HUMC brings in top area neurosurgeon
New doc donates time and money for causes; begins work in NJ

The new owners of Hoboken University Medical Center have attracted the talent of a top neurosurgeon from New York University – Dr. Ramesh Babu, M.Ch, M.D. Babu will now be doing work at HUMC, an...
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HONORED FOR HELPING HOBOKEN CHILDREN
Frank Raia (left) was publicly recognized by Raul Morales, President of the Puerto Rican Cultural Committee (right), for his generosity and service to the youth in the mile-square city at the annu...
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