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Tale of a tortoise
Former Bayonne librarian to ink history of India

When Dipali Sen, former reference-room librarian at Bayonne Library and Cultural Center, read about the death of the 250-year-old tortoise in India, something connected with her. This tortoise had ...
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SENIOR AWARD—(L.-R.) Anthony Romano, Tom DeGise, Sandra Cunningham, and Terry Ruane with winner Marie Fitzsimmons.
People who care
Hudson County pays tribute to seniors of the year

Every year the Hudson County Department of Health and Human Services has to make a tough choice, seeking to pick one senior citizen from the 12 nominated by each municipality to be “Hudson County’s...
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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 its approval, 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 want...
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A REAL HONOR – Frank Polera, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, was the recipient of the Stanley Kopicnski Award for 2013 given by the Marine Corps League of Bayonne. Commandant Louis Giovanni (right) presents Polera with the plaque honoring him for his service to veterans and the community.
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Bayonne native, civil rights activist, passes away Marcella West, who grew up in Bayonne and raised her family in Jersey City, passed away on May 29 in Newark at the age of 87,.NJ.com reported l...
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A REAL FIGHTER – U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg is remembered as someone who stood up for what he believed in.
A man of the people
Lautenberg remembered as someone who gets things done

Back in the late 1980s, U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg had a reputation as a man who got things done. Serving then along with U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, Lautenberg was considered amazingly accessibl...
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CELEBRATION – Bayonne Community Museum will be at the center of the first arts festival in Bayonne on June 14.
Taking it to the streets
Bayonne to hold its first arts festival

For years, people passing the old bank at Broadway and 9th Street paused to ponder the small sign posted on the wall outside that claimed this as the Bayonne Community Museum. Some even looked thro...
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HISTORIC WEAPON -- Joe Calcaterra holds the Japanese rifle.
A token of war
Collector donates historic weapon to Bayonne veterans ‘museum

“Maybe this is the gun someone tried to shoot me with,” said Bill Fischer, 88, standing in the veterans’ museum at the Joyce-Herbert Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 226 on West Ninth Street two weeks...
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PLAYING POLITICS? Leonard Kantor may be running for mayor on a platform that takes advantage of teacher outrage.
Still unresolved
Contract clashes continue at school-board meeting

Both sides in the teachers’ contract dispute threw so many conflicting numbers around at the public portion of the May 29 Board of Education meeting that Albert Einstein would have had trouble maki...
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CUBAN DAY PARADE LAUDED -- The Hudson County Board of Chosen Freeholders awarded a Laudatory Resolution to members of the Cuban Day Parade Committee, commemorating Cuban Independence Day and supporting the Hudson County Cuban Day Parade.
County tourism website gets launched
Site would steer tourists to local destinations

Bill La Rosa, director of Hudson County Department of Cultural Affairs and Tourism, said the website designed to help tourists navigate Hudson County’s attractions was up in time for Memorial Day i...
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BIG NEWS – Federal funds are flowing into Global Terminals for upgrades.
Looking up for Global
City Council votes to accept a grant for terminal improvements

In what will likely be a significant development in East Coast port operations, Global Terminals, on the Bayonne-Jersey City border, received an $11.4 million TIGER grant from the U.S. Department o...
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A WORK IN PROGRESS – Spectra Gas Line is still being worked on at the foot of the Bayonne Bridge, a process that will work around expected blasting later in June and the start of construction for raising the roadway of the bridge itself. The gas line will run along the Kill Van Kull, hit land again on the eastern side of Bayonne, and run up through the industrial section of the city.
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Hudson County Sheriff’s Office arrest 27 in early morning sweep A taskforce arrested more 27 people in a series of raids across Hudson County on May 29 as part of the “Operation Safer Summer” pr...
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ON THE RUNWAY – Kids will make up a big part of the upcoming Bayonne Women’s Club fashion show.
On with the show
Bayonne Women’s Club hosts fashion show

Gerry Langrehr, 74, the eldest model in this year’s fashion show, sat on the sidelines waiting her turn to stroll down the runway. “We go on last,” she said, meaning the elder members of the troop,...
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