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Six months after Hoboken man was misidentified as Newtown shooter – what was learned?

As details about the massacre of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., began to emerge on Friday, Dec. 14, the name Ryan Lanza started circulating on CNN an...
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Women’s Club to hold meeting The Woman's Club of Weehawken will be holding their May meeting on Monday evening, May 20 beginning at 7:15 in the Weehawken Nutrition Center at 201 Highwood Ave. ...
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FLOOD WALL PLAN EXPLAINED – Mayor Richard Turner (left), Kevin Wynn (middle), and Fred Pocci (right) answer the questions of Shades residents.
Flood wall plan seeks funding
Shades residents encouraged to share questions, concerns

“If we had the money today, it would still take 18 months to construct the wall,” said Fredric Pocci, engineer at North Hudson Sewage Authority (NHSA), talking at a town meeting on Monday about th...
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BEAUTIFICATION OF TOWN HALL – Mayor Richard Turner came out to greet the young volunteers as he admired their work on the steps of town hall.
Time to clean up
Elks, peer leaders beautify Town Hall

“You guys are just digging away here!” said Lisa Rovito, a substitute teacher in Weehawken and Elks Club liaison to the Peer Leadership program, on Monday as students shoveled, raked, planted flo...
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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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COMMUNITY REFLECTS – Local pastors and community members honored the 62nd annual National Day of Prayer at Weehawken 9/11 memorial on Thursday, May 2.
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Local pastors, congregation, and community members gather at Weehawken’s 9/11 memorial for day of prayer Event Director James “Brian” Hernandez from the West New York Church of Our Lord Jesus C...
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CELEBRITY NERDS – Weehawken High School juniors Pearl Lee (center) and Cristal Abud (right), seen here with Principal Dr. Peter Olivieri, reject the idea that a fun summer can’t be spent in a science lab. Both students will take part in engineering programs for high school students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this summer.
Whiz kids
Two Weehawken juniors to attend MIT science programs this summer

In the way that many high school seniors incessantly check their e-mail accounts each spring while waiting to hear from colleges, a pair of Weehawken juniors spent much of the past few months doi...
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GOLDEN COUPLE – Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley, who both have successful solo careers on Broadway but have been highly praised for their collaborative work, will bring their own story to the Hudson River Performing Arts Center’s annual gala benefit on May 11.
Broadway on the Hudson
‘Golden couple’ to perform at HRPAC’s upcoming gala

On five warm evenings last summer, the Weehawken waterfront was transformed into a outdoor concert venue, with the backdrop of the Manhattan skyline and world-class acts such as Dr. K’s Motown Re...
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HITTING THE BOOKS – Hoboken City Councilman-at-Large Ravinder “Ravi” Bhalla officially declared his candidacy for the New Jersey General Assembly last week, though he’s still unsure of whom he’ll be running against in a June 4 Democratic primary.
Controversy continues over 33rd District Assembly seat
Stack’s candidate wins right to stay on ballot – but critics will appeal

It’s not over ‘til it’s over, and the ballots for the June 4 Democratic primary were still not printed as of Thursday. The primary will decide which two Democratic Assembly candidates from the 33...
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EARTH DAY – Students from the Daniel Webster Elementary School celebrated Earth Day in our school’s Reading Garden on Monday, April 22, by planting 400 pansies and petunias in the garden. Every child in the school participated in the activity, and children also enjoyed readings from volunteer Book Pal reader Charles Walters and Kelly Fitzgerald and Donna Richardson from the Weehawken Public Library.
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Township holding floodwall meeting Monday night Mayor Richard Turner and 1st Ward Councilwoman Carmela Silvestri-Ehert will hold a community meeting regarding the township’s plan to discuss a ...
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TASTEFUL AND ELEGANT – The 13th Annual Taste of Weehawken was attended by hundreds of township residents on Tuesday night, sampling 30 vendors and pitching in to the township’s Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts. Photos courtesy of Denis Finnin.
A delicious ‘Taste’
13th annual charity event has biggest-ever crowd

The tallies were still coming in Tuesday night, but one bystander, who reckoned his math skills were as good as any in the room, estimated that the 13th Annual Taste of Weehawken would bring in a...
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HARD TO GET – Patients are waiting a year or more to get marijuana for medical purposes. Some can’t get it at all.
Up in smoke
Years after being approved, resident says NJ Medical Marijuana Program a ‘scam’

“At this point, I’ve given up. I’ve given up any hope of getting help from the state through legal channels. I’ll just get what my wife needs illegally.” The Jersey City resident, who did not wa...
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