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With vaccinations picking up across California and case rates starting to drop, counties eager to reopen for business are easing coronavirus restrictions. There...

Boston Jan 11, 2019 Transportation officials have announced a costly plan to make major changes to the Massachusetts Turnpike and Soldiers Field Road in Boston. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation confirmed that the project will rebuild the Pike at the ground level in the city’s Allston neighborhood and create a new viaduct to elevate part of Soldiers Field Road over the highway. MAYOR Jul 17, 2018 After criticism from Braintree Mayor Joe Sullivan,...

Print When Taurino and Silvia Rivera were laid to rest beneath a California pepper tree on Friday morning, their white caskets were surrounded by their three sons and daughters-in-law and seven grandchildren, members of the church they founded in San Diego and pastors who had grown close to them during their years of ministry. The couple, who had grown up together in a small town in Oaxaca and had been inseparable since, were buried together after dying weeks apart from COVID-19. Taurino’s ca...

Hudson County View Jersey City Ward D council candidate Danielle Freire. Facebook photo. By John Heinis/Hudson County View Freire, who works as the development director for the non-profit group Building Equity & Alignment for Impact, filed her D-1 form with the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (NJ ELEC) yesterday. For the time being, she does not have a campaign chair and will serve as her own campaign treasurer. “Our campaign is 100 percent grassroots and is powered...

By WHAV Staff | Theresa Park, executive director of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission. (Courtesy photograph.) Theresa Park, who has served as executive director of Haverhill-based Merrimack Valley Planning Commission for little more than a year, is leaving to join her former boss at MassDevelopment in Boston. Park joins the quasi-public finance agency in March as deputy director and senior executive vice president under former Lawrence Mayor and MassDevelopment President and CEO Daniel ...

Hudson Reporter Jersey City Chief Municipal Prosecutor Jake Hudnut joins Team Fulop slate × Attorney and Jersey City Chief Municipal Prosecutor Jake Hudnut will run for the Ward E City Council seat on Team Fulop, according to the campaign. Hudnut is a 16-year resident of Jersey City and has worked as the city’s top prosecutor since 2018, where he has led the city’s Quality of Life Division and successfully prosecuted absentee landlords, local polluters, negligent businesses, an...

WRTA board votes to extend fare suspension through June Updated Feb 18, 2021; The Worcester Regional Transit Authority Advisory Board voted Thursday morning to extend the suspension of fare collection through June. The motion passed 8-0, with an abstention coming from WRTA Advisory Board chairperson William J. Lehtola. As it stands, fares will resume on July 1. The discussion Thursday morning centered around the allocation of the $37.2M the WRTA received in COVID relief funds from the CARES Ac...

Hudson Reporter Amalgamated Transit Union endorses Team Fulop × The New Jersey State Council for the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU), the largest transportation workers union in the nation that represents 10,000 New Jersey residents and nearly 800 total active and retired members in Jersey City, has endorsed Mayor Steven Fulop and his City Council slate in November’s municipal election. According to a press release from Team Fulop, ATU is supporting Fulop because of his action to...

The ATU has endorsed Team Fulop for November, exclaiming that they "have demonstrated that they stand by the core values of ATU.”

Jersey City Council OKs $6.7M in upgrades for Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza By Daniel Ulloa/Hudson County View The Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza, located in downtown Jersey City, first opened in 2015 before being expanded in 2018. On Tuesday, the administration touted a plan backing more upgrade that will include decorative trench drains, tree garden planters, cafe lighting, and a staging area for community events. “The price tag worries me a little bit, but it was the lowest out of all the...