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PLAY ON -- The Passion Play at Park PAC opens this weekend. Passion behind ‘The Passion’
Historic play to open for 95th season

Bus tours are expected to come from as far as Tennessee to see the critically acclaimed Passion Play at the Park Performing Arts Center in Union City, which opens this weekend. The Passion Play c...
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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 last week riding NJ Transit’s 4:40 p.m. train from Hoboken to Suffern, N.Y. asking his fellow riders to sign his petition. “They’re thinking about eliminating thi...
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STILL INVESTIGATING – Maria Gutierrez Cabrera was found dead in a vacant apartment in her apartment building on Buchanan Place in West New York last week. The investigation into her death is ongoing. Anyone with information about this matter should call the Hudson County Prosecutor s Office’s Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345. Investigating WNY mom’s death
Police still looking for information about homicide

Last week, the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office said that a 30-year-old West New York mother of two, found Sunday morning in a vacant apartment across from her own unit, was strangled to death. ...
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BUSTED – Many prostitution operations have been busted because of tips received by the police about faux business cards being passed out along Bergenline Avenue. Hookers with business cards
What’s behind the sudden string of prostitution busts in area?

The world’s oldest profession is having a hard time surviving in West New York, and Union City may become more difficult stomping grounds as well. Since the new year, the Street Crimes Unit of th...
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UNION CITY REACHES OUT TO CHILE – Mayor Brian Stack encouraged local residents to donate to the international relief effort for the earthquake victims of Chile this week. Donors may bring canned and boxed food and bottled water to the third floor of City Hall (3715 Palisade Ave.) during office hours. BRIEFS
3/7/10

UC Zoning official may have lived out of town According to a published article, a member of the Union City Zoning Board may have been living in Bergen County for the last three years, and if so...
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THE LOVE OF ART - Artist Demetrio Alfonso posed next to a piece he is currently working on in his studio. Organic composition
Local artist garners international acclaim with mixed media

Over the past 35 years, West New York resident Demetrio Alfonso has become a world-renowned artist. The recent recipient of a lifetime achievement award from an international art exhibition, Alfo...
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PASSION PLAY – The 95th season of America’s longest running passion play will start on March 13 in Union City. This critically acclaimed production has been a favorite of tour groups and area families since it was first presented in 1915. For performance dates, ticket purchases, and more information, call the Park Performing Arts Center at (201) 865-6980, ext. 10 or visit www.parkpac.org. BRIEFS
2/28/10

Recall effort still alive Last week the committees trying to recall West New York Mayor Sal Vega – led by Dr. Felix Roque and the Together We Can group – were given a trial date of April 12 to ...
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WILD CAT – Union City officials have responded to residents’ concerns about the humane treatment of stray cats found in the area. The city has also recently awarded a new animal shelter services contract. Give me shelter
Committee will address stray cats

Animal control and sheltering has been a conundrum in Hudson County for over a year, as the county shelter in Jersey City run by the SPCA was shut down a year ago because of health violations, ...
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MAKING IT WORK – Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise said times are hard, but the county is doing its best to keep the county’s finances stable. Good news in bad times
DeGise says county is holding its own

The old adage that when life hands you lemons, you should make lemonade pertains very much to the state of the county this year as county officials hunker down in bad economic times. In comments ...
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Un-happy meal
Some local residents can’t get Meals on Wheels anymore

In the middle of last month, West New York resident Brian Silvani ran out of food. Fifty-one years old and disabled, he called the local office of Meals on Wheels for help. To his surprise, the g...
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NEW SCHOOL – A student walks by Union City High School on Kennedy Blvd. on Monday, when schools were closed. Saving the schools?
Union City tries to head off gov’s funding cuts; WNY unscathed

The 11,600-student Union City School District receives 75 percent of its funding from the state, but now it may have to find new sources, dip into its surplus, or cut spending. After new Gov. Chr...
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NO-TELL HOTEL – The site of the old Park Avenue Hotel in Weehawken where Jennifer Moore was allegedly murdered is now vacant and awaiting construction of affordable senior housing, tentatively slated to begin in 2011. ‘Perfect storm of delays’
Defendants in murder case may stand trial in May

Draymond Coleman and Krystal Riordan, the pair who are charged with the 2006 murder of Jennifer Moore, 18, in a now-defunct Weehawken hotel, were denied a motion filed by their attorneys earlier ...
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