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• Jersey City library is cutting back on hours, with most branches open ...

  PHOTOS >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Jersey City library is cutting back on hours, with most branches open only two Saturdays through end of year The Jersey City Free Public Library is scaling back hours and closing most of its branches on Saturdays due to budget cuts.

• Hudson County freeholders debate $12 million jail food services contract

  The Hudson County Board of Freeholders spent over an hour tonight debating whether to renew Arakmark's contract to provide food to inmates and staff at the Hudson County Jail in Kearny.

• Power failure on Truck Routes 1 & 9 causes delays

  JERSEY CITY - A power failure on Truck Routes 1 & 9 at Charlotte Circle is causing a 15-to-20 minute traffic delay in the northbound lanes, according to a report on 511nj.org , the Department of Transportation's traffic website.

• Judge: Jersey City Police Detective Marc DiNardo's widow can't sue

  Mary DiNardo and her daughter, Gwen, 5, attend the Legacy of Heroes commemorative event honoring Detective Marc DiNardo at Liberty State Park in Jersey City on July 21.

• Three Jersey City residents charged in New Jersey City University theft

  Five people have now been charged in conspiring to steal $420,000 from New Jersey City University.

• Ecuador-born Jersey City artist to open first solo exhibit

  Jersey City artist Vincent Zambrano's first Hudson County exhibit, "The Sleep of Doubt," is opening in town on Thursday, Sept.

• Arrests made in theft of New Jersey City University funds

  Three people are charged as co-conspirators in an alleged scheme that authorities say bilked more than $400,000 from student government funds at New Jersey City University.

• Tight circle governs city's abatements -- and they only listen to themselves: Morgan

  According to columnist Earl Morgan, decades of tax abatements handed out to developers in Jersey City shortchanged the municipal coffers and its residents.

• Jersey City's new school year will find new principals at several schools

  Belinda Mays Stokes, former principal of Liberty High School, will head Jersey City's Snyder High School this year.

• Jerry Herman, a Jersey City native, will be one of the Kennedy Center honorees in December

  Jerry Herman, Jersey City-born Broadway composer and lyricist, will join Oprah Winfrey, former Beatle Paul McCartney, country singer-songwriter Merle Haggard and dancer, choreographer and director Bill T. Jones as the honorees in the Kennedy Center Honors.