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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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DIFFERENT WORLD –West New York’s waterfront neighborhood, which sprang up with the rest of the Gold Coast in the 2000s and is dotted with luxury vehicles and fine restaurants, juxtaposes starkly with the rest of the town, poverty-stricken and densely populated. But the disconnects aren’t simply material – they’re also political.
A tale of two West New Yorks
Newer waterfront residents don’t know of political scandals affecting mayor – and do they care?

You don’t have to have 20/20 vision to notice the differences between the two West New Yorks. In the newly-constructed, luxurious riverfront West New York, breakfast means Starbucks, lunch break m...
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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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BRAVE NEW WORLD – West New York residents Rose Puerto and Doug Borden are attempting something relatively unheard of in town: trying to turn public discontent into action, not by simply complaining about the local government’s shenanigans, but spearheading constructive efforts to change the way the town operates.
Turning discontent into action
Rejecting complaints, new WNY citizens group will offer solutions

The past year or so has been a learning experience for Doug Borden and Rose Puerto. The two residents of the Versailles building on Boulevard East in West New York have spent countless evenings ra...
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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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UNDER FIRE AGAIN - West New York Mayor Felix Roque, who is already under federal indictment on hacking charges, was blasted by the Department of Education on Thursday for engaging in unethical patronage politics relating to hiring practices and the solicitation of political contributions in the town’s school district.
State report slams Roque
Report reviews ‘unethical’ hiring practices in schools and campaign contributions

The New Jersey Department of Education’s Office of Fiscal Accountability and Compliance (OFAC) published a report last week alleging “potential ethics violations and the abuse of office” on the p...
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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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