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Perfectly suited to vets By Karen Zautyk Observer Correspondent
By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
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KEARNY – The Town of Kearny is getting its first charter school … but it’s going to be a hybrid creature. What that means is that the school will be located in Kearny but its students will be drawn from Kearny and Jersey City. Sounds strange but such is the plan that state Department of Education Commissioner David C. Hespe preliminarily signed off on pending the charter school submitting certain documents, meeting state and federal codes and securing a four-year charter agreement. To explain: the Hudson Arts & Science Charter School – as the new facility will be known – will be occupying the former Mater Dei Academy (and former St. Stephen’s Grammar School) at 131 Midland Ave. This new school, which will be a branch of North Jersey Arts & Science Charter School (NJASCS), has signed a lease with the St. Stephen’s Parish Finance Committee and the College of Consulters of the Archdiocese of Newark. That lease will run from July 1, 2016, to June 30, 2020, and the first classes will start in September 2016, according see SCHOOL page
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Photo by Karen Zautyk; inset photo by Barbara Goldberg
here’s a new clothing “store” in town. But the clientele is limited to veterans. And they don’t have to pay a cent for any of the merchandise. The Veterans Clothing Closet, a collaboration between Catholic Charities and Kearny’s American Legion Post 99, is now operating out of the Post’s headquarters at 314 Belgrove Drive. Veterans, men and women, are welcome to visit -- by appointment – and select whatever garments they desire. A prime focus is on business attire, to better ready a job applicant for that all-important hiring interview, but casual clothing is also available. As noted on the township’s website, www.kearnyusa.com,
Bill Sweeney (l.) and Tony Capitti of American Legion Post 99 at Veterans Clothing Closet; (inset) Kearny Mayor Alberto Santos (c.) and Capitti visit Closet on opening day.
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Keeping their heads above water By Ron Leir Observer Correspondent
LYNDHURST – Rich and Diane Mitchell live close to the Passaic River in Lyndhurst but please don’t mention water to them. They’ve seen enough up-close to last a lifetime.
The couple has lived through four wicked storms that have attacked their Riverside Ave. home and left them nomads for much of the time. So much so, in fact, that in order to keep their wits – and furniture – about them, they ended up putting their house up on jacks and raising it more
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than eight feet to keep out of the flood zone. And they’re not alone: the owners of some 15 properties spread among Riverside, Peabody and Park Aves. were faced with varying degrees of home hardships due, primarily, to the combined ravages of Hurricane Irene and Super
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