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Washington sentenced to year in jail
JERSEY CITY — A Jersey City community activist and failed 2009 candidate for the City Council was sentenced today in federal court to a year and a day in jail for allegedly accepting ...
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Secaucus schools to lose all state aid
Posted March 18, 2010
SECAUCUS - The Secaucus Public School District stands to lose all of its state aid – $1.68 million – under Gov. Christopher Christie’s proposed budget, which he presented Tu...
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Christie stumps in Bayonne for proposed state cuts
HUDSON COUNTY — In the first of a series of personal appeals, Gov. Christopher Christie came to Bayonne to help sell his proposals leading the state out of its fiscal crisis. “I may n...
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Hoboken resident photographs flood foibles
HOBOKEN – Hobokenite Zachary Green captured something on Saturday that he calls “The Great Hoboken Boat Rescue of March, 2010.” He described the scene near ShopRite as: “Guy drives car into f...
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LIVE: Hoboken City Council meeting
HOBOKEN City budget! Union contracts! High-priced lawyers! Muni-meters! Tonight’s City Council will meet at 7 p.m. tonight has something for everyone. The City Council will be voting ...
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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
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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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