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• Colorful costumes sweep through Jersey City during Bolivian ...

  

  JERSEY CITY -- The sights and sounds of Bolivia were on full display today during the Bolivian Parade and Festival in downtown Jersey City. The Bolivian community of Jersey City paraded through downtown Saturday afternoon, dressed in colorful, eye-popping dress and costumes. Beginning at noon, the parade eventually made its way up to City Hall on Grove Street, where the festival filled downtown with plenty of food and music. Scroll through the gallery above to check out the parade and festival...

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• Jersey City Slam team ready for national championship war of words

  

  If practice makes perfect, the Jersey City Slam slam poetry team should have no problems next week at the National Poetry Slam in Denver, Colorado. The team has been working out two to three times a week to make sure they are spot on at the competition, which runs Aug. 8-12. Jersey City Slam held a team send-off Thursday at Tea JC, where the team performed in front of a live audience and raised money to offset the cost of the trip. The team is still raising money to help fund the trip. If you w..

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• Cops and civilians

  

  A few minutes before the festivities were about to start at Audubon Park in Jersey City on Tuesday night, a van full of people pulled up to the curb. The man in the passenger side rolled down his window and asked one of the people on the sidewalk, “What’s going on?”“It’s National Night Out Against Crime,” responded a man on the sidewalk. “You know, kids and cops.”“Hey, that’s great!” the man in the van said as the van pulled away. Whether or not he found a parking spot near the festivities re..

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• JERSEY CITY BRIEFS

  

  NEXT STEP – Demolition of an office building on Magnolia Avenue this week will pave the way for groundbreaking on the second Journal Squared Tower. The first of three towers began renting earlier this year. Development of additional towers hinges on how rapidly apartments in the 54-story building rented. slideshow NY federal prosecutors to investigate Kushner Companies’ funding of One Journal SquareA report in The Wall Street Journal last week said New York federal prosecutors have su..

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• Calling models, designers, stylists, photographers

  

  by Al SullivanReporter staff writer Hudson Reporter Aug 06, 2017 | 326 views | 0  | 5  |  |  A LOT OF GLITZ – Jersey City Fashion Week is expected to bring top fashions and designers into town. slideshow Mark Twain, newspaperman and novelist, once compared fashion to architecture, noting that these often reflected the time and place of their creation.This might be also said of Jersey City Fashion Week, which is expected to feature the work of dozens of desi..

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• Well worth the wait

  

  Walking into the refurbished White Eagle Hall on Newark Avenue in Jersey City is like stumbling into several episodes of the classic trilogy of sci-fi films, “Back to the Future.” On one hand, you are surrounded by rich Jersey City history; on the other, you are embracing the most modern light and sound technology available today.On the façade of the building above the entrances is the emblem of the hall’s namesake; the White Eagle has symbolized the Polish nation since the dark ages. The ext..

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• Night Out Against Crime festivities benefited Fulop: Political Insider

  

  Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, who is seeking re-election this year, addresses a crowd at Pershing Field in The Heights, one of five locations participating in the annual National Night Out Against Crime on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017. Courtesy of A. C. Torres  The Jersey City mayoral election campaign seems to be lumbering along in slow motion to its eventual conclusion. Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop's game plan is the old "three yards and a cloud of dust" - no passing or mistakes. This was quite ev..

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• SCOREBOARD A taste of international hoops at Hamilton Park

  

  WELCOMING COMMITTEE – The Dominican Republic’s 17-and-under team, fresh off a victory in the prestigious Central Baskets Cup tournament, came to Hamilton Park last Monday night and defeated a team of All-Stars from the Jersey City Recreation High School Summer League. The Dominican team was coached by St. Peter’s Prep head coach Alex Mirabel (far right front). slideshow When he’s done coaching the St. Peter’s Prep varsity basketball team, Alex Mirabel devotes a lot of his time to coac..

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• Eat a peach – or a pie, at least

  

  by Al SullivanReporter staff writer Hudson Reporter Aug 06, 2017 | 114 views | 0  | 14  |  |  BACK IN TIME – Riverview Farmer’s Market is a kind of flashback to when Jersey City Heights served as source of farm produce for the rest of the city. slideshow Poets for more than a century have pontificated on spiritual inspiration from eating a peach. T.S. Elliot used the peach as a kind of narcissistic self reflection, while Allen Ginsberg reflected upon it as ..

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• EXTRA INNINGS Washington Park's dream summer comes to an end

  by Jim Hague Hudson Reporter Aug 06, 2017 | 105 views | 0  | 2  |  |  SHARP EYE – Washington Park Little League All-Star Christopher Villavincenzo looks in to get the sign from the catcher in recent action. The local Little Leaguers went all the way to the New Jersey state tournament before losing two games there. slideshow Before the Washington Park 11-and-12-year-old Little League All-Stars boarded the bus that would take them to rural Sussex County and K..

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