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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 ongoing, it may not seem like time to think about 2013-2014 football season. But with MetLife Stadium playing host to Supe...
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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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HAPPY TURTLES – These turtles look happy to be, er, playing at Mill Creek Marsh in Secaucus. A group of Bergen County residents was enjoying nature recently when they caught these photos of an elaborate ritual (see briefs). Elaine Raine of Clifton snapped this particular photo. Have nice local photos? Send to editorial@hudsonreporter.com up to three photos attached as .jpgs to each email.
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Save the Date for North Bergen Seniors Picnic Mayor Nicholas Sacco asks township seniors to save the date for the Annual Senior Citizen Picnic to be held on Wed., Sept. 18 from 10:30 a.m. to 3:3...
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Bite is worse than bark
Free vaccinations for pets on May 15 in NB, Guttenberg

If you are bitten by an animal with rabies and don’t get treated quickly, the disease is likely to be fatal. Same goes for your household pets. North Bergen and Guttenberg will provide free rabie...
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WITHIN THESE WALLS … This space on Kennedy Boulevard will be the site of the township’s first downtown library.
Downtown residents to get library branch
Commissioners also pass $84.2M budget

Come mid-summer, residents of downtown North Bergen will be web surfing and enjoying movies in their own library branch for the first time ever, thanks to an ordinance passed at Wednesday’s townsh...
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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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WELL DESERVED -- Margot Harris of North Bergen received a special award for her years of volunteer service at Palisades Medical Center in North Bergen. See briefs.
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Free community health fair The Dvine Konektion Community Development Corporation is offering a free Community Fair on Saturday, May 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 5516 Jefferson St. in West New Y...
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THE GROWING TREE – Mayor Nicholas Sacco, Commissioner Hugo Cabrera, the 2012 senior class moderator Jared Keshishian and co-moderators of the environmental club, Dana Lau and Jennifer Checchio, work with the environmental club at the site of the first tree that was planted on Friday, April 26. The plum tree sits on a hill facing North Bergen High School’s parking lot.
Environmental club goes back to its roots
Arbor Day tree planting is gift to NBHS

Arbor Day and Earth Day combined on Friday, April 26 when the North Bergen High School environmental club planted five trees given by the class of 2012 as a gift to their school. Adding some color...
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PINK WITH ENVY – Tickled Pink Petunia, located at 6718 Park Ave., will be celebrating its 40th anniversary on Sunday, May 5.
Polishing off the antiques
Tickled Pink celebrates anniversary

Tickled Pink Petunia Antiques, a shop in Guttenberg, will celebrate its 40th anniversary on Sunday, May 5 with a sidewalk sale. “Our sidewalk sale on Sunday is going to be a hoot,” said owner Bet...
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FIT FOR A KING – The true glory of 8 Hamilton Ave., one of Weehawken’s best kept secrets, can only truly be seen from a helicopter or from River Road below the Palisades Cliffs. The house is tucked comfortably in a corner of the King’s Bluff neighborhood in Weehawken, and recently was placed back on the market for a jaw-dropping $7.5 million. Photo courtesy of Helena Lobo-Zagorski.
$7.5M mansion for sale
Homes in historic King’s Bluff area hosted Charles Dickens, Daniel Webster, others

When driving along the Hudson River on River Road, one may look up and spot several mansions high atop the Palisade Hills of Weehawken. Now, one such property – with panoramic views of New York C...
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YANKEE PRIDE – The North Bergen’s Recreation Yankees enjoying their opening day Little League parade on Saturday, April 6.
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‘Mock Hillbilly Wedding’ The German-American World Historical Society is sponsoring a one-day trip for its members, Fritz Reuter Altenheim residents, and the general public on Wednesday, May 8 ...
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DRESSED TO IMPRESS – Martina Gomez was dressed for ‘A Taste of China’ on Saturday, April 20.
‘A Taste of China’
Library continues cultural series

What first began with “Taste of India” in 2011continued with the fourth installment of a culture series on Saturday, April 20. North Bergen’s Free Public Library has taken its patrons around the ...
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