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TEACHING CONFIDENCE – Araceli Galvis (left) and Carline Rimpel (right), facilitators for the New Jersey Child Assault Prevention Project, employ puppets to instruct a room of 3-year-olds at the Early Childhood Education Center in West New York.
No bullying for 3- and 4-year-olds
Program gives children confidence

More than 190 3- and 4-year-olds in North Bergen, West New York, and Kearny learned how to deal with bullying and abuse in a program run over the last three months. “We were looking for a group o...
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When getting it first isn’t necessarily best
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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NEW CLINIC FOR HISPANIC COMMUNITY – Laboratorio Buena Salud (LBS) (www.LaboratorioBuenaSalud.com) has opened the region’s first Spanish-first clinical testing laboratory in Union City, NJ on Wednesday May 4.
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UC homeless shelter to hold annual gala On Tuesday, May 21, the Palisades Emergency Residential Corporation (PERC) is hosting its annual gala. This year’s gala theme, “You Change Lives,” honors...
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FEEDBACK – Workshop presenters handed out sticky notes to attendees and asked them to write down which changes they’d like to see in their communities.
Future of development in North Jersey
Residents talk about next 25-30 years of housing, parks, waterfront access

Scott Miller, whose daughter lives in Hoboken, wants to see more parks and open spaces in his town rather than overpopulating an already congested area. He came to a meeting of a nonprofit plannin...
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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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DANCE THE DAY AWAY – Aurelia “La Maquinita” Perez and West New York Senior Center’s Lourdes Lopez broke in their dance shoes at the Middle School during the May 4 Senior Mother’s Day Luncheon.
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33rd District Assembly candidate drops out Hoboken Councilman Ravi Bhalla, a candidate for the 33rd District Assembly race, has dropped out. The 33rd District includes Union City, Weehawken, H...
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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 33r...
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HONOR GUARD – Nine members of the West New York Police Department’s honor guard traveled to Cambridge, Mass. recently to pay their respects to MIT Officer Sean Collier, who was killed during a manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. From left: Detective Yousef Awadallah, Detective John Vializ, Detective Edward Rivera, Detective Henry Codina, Officer Madelyn LaBoy, Sgt. Marcos Garciga, Officer Jose Alicea, Officer Richard Alvarado, and Officer Carlos Henriquez.
Standing together
WNY police honor guard travels to Boston to honor fallen colleague

In the wake of the recent Boston Marathon bombings, West New York was thrust into the national media spotlight when it was discovered that the sister of the suspected terrorists, Ailina Tsarnaev, ...
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IN RUINS – Chairs on the sidewalk in front of this Bayonne eatery were among the visible signs left by Hurricane Sandy last fall
Grant money coming?
State help may be on its way for businesses impacted by Sandy

At the freeholders’ caucus on April 23, help for businesses suffering the effects of Hurricane Sandy was an important order of business. These businesses may get new relief as the state authorizes...
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REMEMBERING HISTORY – A bust of the Dominican Republic’s founding father, Juan Pablo Duarte, was presented last week at Patricia McEldowney Park in West New York. It was donated by the Juan Pablo Duarte Bicentennial Project. Left to right: Commissioner FiorD’Aliza Frias, Juan Dominguez, Commissioner Rubén Vargas, and Antonio Martinez, a representative from the Dominican consulate in New York City.
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Tickets still available for Hudson River PAC annual gala Tickets still remain for The Hudson River Performing Arts Center’s (HRPAC) annual benefit concert and dinner on Saturday, May 11 at the ...
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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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BACK IN THE SADDLE – After retiring from the West New York police force as a captain in 2008, Robert Antalos will take the reins from outgoing Police Director Michael Indri on Wednesday. Commissioner of Public Safety Caridad Rodriguez described Antalos as “an ethical, straight-arrow, no-nonsense guy.”
Police dept. change in WNY
Indri retires, his old boss will be new director

Robert Antalos chose a tough week to be initiated into his new job. The West New York native and former police captain won’t officially become the town’s new police director until Wednesday, but ...
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