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Painting of nude Bea Arthur, done in Hoboken, sells for $1.9 M
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- A painting entitled “Bea Arthur Naked,” which depicts artist John Currin’s vision of how the “Golden Girls” star might appear without clothing, sold for $1.9 million to an ...
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Three JC council candidates may concede rather than face runoff...but they must sue to have names kept off ballot
JERSEY CITY AND BEYOND – On Monday the Office of the City Clerk will draw ballot positions for the June 11 runoff election for eight of the nine council wards. Some candidates whose names are ex...
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Will New Jersey raise smoking age to 21?
HOBOKEN AND BEYOND -- Hoboken-based Assemblyman Ruben Ramos plans to sponsor legislation in the state Assembly to move the age of buying tobacco products from 19 to 21. He joined lawmakers in Ne...
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N.J. authority expected to OK American Dream plan to add indoor amusement, water parks
MEADOWLANDS -- According to an article in the Record on Thursday, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority is expected to sign off tomorrow on a developer's plan to add water parks and i...
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Jersey City Medical Center signs agreement to become member of Barnabas Health system
JERSEY CITY -- Barnabas Health and Jersey City Medical Center signed an agreement Thursday morning for Jersey City Medical Center to become a member of the Barnabas Health system. Barnabas Hea...
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Right now, cities from New York to Secaucus are lobbying and jockeying to line up funding and other support for their Super Bowl-related activities.
Super Bowl prep
As preliminary plans come together, local towns search for funding, profits

With the weather heating up, baseball in full swing, and the NBA playoffs just around the corner, it may not seem like time to think about 2013-2014 football season. But with MetLife Stadium playi...
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Kay Magilavy (far right), president of the Temple Beth-El board, fields questions from residents regarding the synagogue’s plans to sell 71 Bentley Ave (inset) at the May 9 community meeting.
Back to the drawing board
Temple, residents nix senior development to back open space plan

In a rare turn of events, a community came together to push back against an unwanted development – and won. Early last week, residents in the West Side neighborhood near Lincoln Park learned, most...
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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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Multi-media artists Trish Szymanski in her art installation “The Road Home: Art is a Risky Business,” which she debuted during the 2012 Artists’ Studio Tour. See brief, page 2.
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Noted local artist uses crowd funding concept to find a place to live Local Jersey City artists Trish Szymanski has launched a crowd funding campaign on www.YouCaring.com to raise $3,000 so sh...
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Michael Yun
Will ward candidates face a runoff?
As races enter the home stretch, it’s the independents applying much of the pressure

If there is one thing the two main mayoral campaigns agree on it is this: there will be runoffs after Election Day, Tuesday, May 14, most likely in some of the city’s six wards. Hard campaigning ...
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What path for ‘underperforming’ schools?
Town hall meeting planned for May 4

At press time on May 3, some Jersey City education advocates were gearing up for a planned town hall meeting on education on Saturday, May 4. Billed as the Town Hall Meeting on Education Issues an...
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Following his untimely death last month, friends remembered Robert “Kwame” Daughtry Jr. as an avid reader and chess player.
Voice for ‘The People’s U’ lost
Library, community activist Robert Daughtry passes

About five years ago, when a city budget crisis forced layoffs and furloughs of municipal workers and cuts in city services, the Jersey City Free Public Library also became a casualty of the Grea...
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Throughout this year, Knitting for Good volunteers will make items the group hopes to donate later to the homeless and sick.
Helping hands
New knitting, crochet group hopes to give comfort to the homeless and ill

Every year, usually around the holidays, local shelters and volunteer groups make a request for donations of “gently used” clothing for the city’s homeless population. Despite their pleas, howeve...
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BATTLE OVER OPEN SPACE – This small patch of land in Washington Park may not initially appear to be worth arguing over, but in one of the most densely populated cities in America, every inch counts. Therefore, Union City residents who live in the park’s vicinity are rallying against a proposed renovation of the park, which would see the expansion of the athletic field onto this lawn.
Questions surface over Washington Park project
Some residents concerned over loss of open space

In the most densely populated city in America, open space has always come at a premium. Union City is not known for its parks, nor for its athletic facilities, but one of those things will change...
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HOT FOR SOME CHILI? – Hey, chili fans, it’s baaaaaaaaaack! Yes, with Cinco de Mayo comes the annual Fourth Street Arts Chili Cook Off. The fourth annual food fest/competition takes place from noon to 4 p.m. in Grove Plaza. Five bucks gets you a big sampling of chili from each of the 20-plus chefs participating in this year’s competition.
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JCPD seeks help in downtown hit and run The Jersey City Police Department (JCPD) is seeking help in finding the driver of a silver Jeep Cherokee who allegedly hit a man at Monmouth Avenue and ...
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Fulop and his allies have called the e-mail inquiry a manufactured story designed “get the headlines and smear Fulop.” Pictured: City Councilman and avid e-mailer Steven Fulop.
You’ve got mail
Hundreds of Fulop-school board messages released; what was learned?

In January, Ward F City Councilwoman Diane Coleman stood before a crowd of 250 or so supporters as Team Fulop opened its campaign headquarters at 2175 Kennedy Blvd. “Anyone who knows Steve Fulop ...
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The still-closed Mary Benson Park playground last week.
Environmental clean-up at Benson Park enters new phase
Playground remains closed for at least a few more weeks

A public playground that was closed by city officials nearly a year ago for environmental remediation remains closed and may not be reopened for several more weeks, even as warm weather and peak p...
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