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• Hundreds march in Jersey City to curb violence, bring community ...

  

  JERSEY CITY -- Hundreds of people came out for the 2nd Annual Unity Walk Saturday afternoon to help spread the message of community oneness, and to curb violence in the city. Residents came out in large numbers with their families to march for peace and unity in the city just before the summer months, when violence in the city is typically at its peak. The crowd started on the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and McAdoo Avenue in Greenville and walked up MLK through the city -- eventually mak..

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• JERSEY CITY BRIEFS

  

  NEW RECRUITS – Jersey City swore in 25 new police officers at a graduation ceremony at City Hall on June 8. This latest class brings the size of the department to 932 total officers, its largest size in two decades. slideshow Kushner Companies may lose tax credit for its Journal Square project An exclusive report by WNYC radio reported that the One Journal Square project proposed by the Kushner Companies may be in danger of having a $6.5 million annual tax credit associated with its an..

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• New Jersey City 'Immigrant Commission' to respond to federal order ...

  

  GETTING READY FOR POLITICAL WAR – Members of the Jersey City Immigration Commission must confront the federal government over possible loss of aid. slideshow The newly-formed Jersey City Immigration Commission will prepare a response to a memo from U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions that ordered the city to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement or lose federal dollars.At their second meeting since being established, the JCIC discussed how to respond to the federal demand that..

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• TASTY TIDBITS Jersey City's Clarke set to make boxing debut on ...

  

  READY FOR DEBUT – Jersey City teacher and resident Nicoy Zilla-Clarke is ready to make his professional boxing debut Friday night, June 16, at the Jersey City Armory. The card is set to begin at 7 p.m. slideshow It might have been over a year in the making, but Jersey City school teacher Nimoy Zilla-Clarke is set to make his debut as a professional boxer Friday night, June 16. The 36-year-old Clarke, who started boxing for real at age 29 and moved his way up the Golden Glove amateur ra..

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• What happened on Tonnelle Avenue?

  

  AN OVERHANGING CLOUD – Mayor Steven Fulop and high police brass gathered to swear in new police officers at a time when a video allegedly showed police beating someone after a Tonnelle Avenue crash slideshow In response to video that shows Jersey City police allegedly kicking and dragging someone from a fiery car crash after a long chase last weekend, the Hudson County prosecutor says the matter is being intensely investigated and has asked the public both for help and for patience.Th..

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• A shoemaker's son

  

  Stephen Attardi Jr. is dead.He died of cancer at his second home in Thailand in January, but I only recently learned about it.Dead at 78, he left a lasting impression on me when I first started to cover the Bayonne beat in 2004, even though I only met him once. Perhaps this was because his story so resembled my family’s story and the story many immigrant families, who came to the United States to build a new life, and somehow had to settle for making a better life for their kids.Attardi called ..

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• Hudson Reporter newspapers win slew of state awards

  

  The reporters and graphic artists for the Hudson Reporter newspapers recently won 11 writing, 12 photography, and six layout awards in the prestigious 2016 Memorial Journalism Awards run annually by the Garden State Journalists Association. The newspaper chain, founded in 1983 in Hoboken and now based in Bayonne, publishes eight newspapers: The Hoboken Reporter, Bayonne Community News, Weehawken Reporter, Jersey City Reporter, Secaucus Reporter, North Bergen Reporter, Union City Reporter, and t..

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• What are they looking for?

  

  by Al Sullivan Reporter staff writer Hudson Reporter Jun 11, 2017 | 320 views | 0  | 10  |  |  In the two weeks after a Navy Seal perished in a tragic parachuting accident, multiple law enforcement agencies have been involved in a search operation near the site of his fall.Remington Peters, a 27-year-old Navy parachutist who enlisted in 2008, fell to his death during a Fleet Week demonstration at Liberty State Park on May 27, an accident that left crowds of onlooker..

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• BRIEFS

  

  Memorial High School students Karla Somoano and Piero Manrique were each awarded $2,000 Community Service Merit Scholarships from Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center. The students were congratulated by Nikki Mederos, director of External Affairs at Palisades Medical Center, and Memorial High School Principal Scott Wohlrab. (See brief) slideshow Officials respond to video of JC cops, WNY man In response to a video that showed police allegedly kicking and dragging someon..

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• HOBOKEN BRIEF

  

  The Fund for a Better Waterfront is hoping the city will acquire the Union Dry Dock to become a park (see brief). slideshow Arts & Music Festival arrives this weekend The City of Hoboken will host the 24th annual Spring Arts & Music Festival on Sunday, June 11 from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Due to construction along Washington Street, the festival will be held from Eighth Street to Fourteenth Street and admission is free. Residents in the area are advised that vehicles parked along upper Washi..

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