Hudson County launches COVID-19 vaccine awareness campaign
Hudson County Executive Tom DeGise launched a new public awareness campaign featuring county residents, designed to increase acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, particularly in communities of color.
The first video features Hudson County Director of Health & Human Services Darice Toon talking about why she decided to get the vaccine.
“Darice Toon’s message to Hudson County residents is both simple and powerful: ‘trust the science, be a part of the solution,’ and I commend her for speaking out about this incredibly important issue,” DeGise said. “In order to beat back this pandemic, we will need as many people as possible to get vaccinated, and that means confronting some very real and historically justified fears, particularly in Black and Latino communities. That’s exactly why this campaign is so important and why we are excited to start it today.”
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A Hoboken transformer outage briefly left about 5,000 residents north of 7th Street without power, though it is already been mostly restored, Hoboken Mayor Ravi Bhalla said this evening.
The scene just a few minutes ago at 11th & Hudson in @CityofHoboken. Anyone able to shed light on the situation? Seems like power is out in much of uptown Hoboken. @RaviBhalla@KenFerrante@ABC7NY@brian4NYpic.twitter.com/mCGEAu4b1f Rachel Chang | Travel & Pop Culture Journalist (@RachelChang) February 16, 2021
“Due to a transformer outage, portions of Hoboken north of 7th Street may be without power. Emergency responders and PSE&G are currently on site and evaluating a time frame for repairs,” the city wrote in a Nixle alert that went out at 8:14 p.m.
Sheriff’s office investigating body found in Braddock North Hudson Park
Updated Feb 09, 2021;
A body was found in a wooded area of James J. Braddock North Hudson Park in North Bergen Tuesday morning, authorities confirmed.
The incident is being investigated by the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office, the law enforcement agency that patrols and polices the county parks in the county, a spokesman for the sheriff’s office said.
At this point, the death is not considered suspicious. No other information, including the person’s identity, has been released.
Over the years the park’s small, wooded and secluded areas have been home to groups of the homeless, and it could be that the freezing temperatures played a role in the death. In 2014, a man was found dead near a homeless encampment in the park.
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Union City resident Juan Tejada, his alleged co-conspirators, and his alleged supplier have been charged with various narcotics offenses along with his intricate web of nearly two
dozen associates.
Following a year-long investigation, law enforcement arrested 20 people, dismantling a large-scale narcotics trafficking network spanning Hudson, Essex, Bergen, and Union Counties and New York City.
Officers seized more than 9,400 grams of fentanyl, over 3,400 grams of cocaine, over 1700 grams of methamphetamine, over 800 grams of fentanyl pills, about eight grams of heroin, a loaded gun, and $118,395.
The street value of the drugs is approximately $1 million.
According to the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office, which was involved in the investigation along with Homeland Security Investigation, the New York Police Department, and other law enforcement partners, the alleged operation’s ring leader was Juan Tejada of Union City who was allegedly a major supplier of cocai
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A barber shop and used car lot were fronts for a large-scale North Jersey drug trafficking ring, said authorities who seized nearly 21 pounds of fentanyl, 7½ pounds of cocaine, a loaded gun and more while arresting 20 people in Hudson, Bergen, Essex and Union counties.
Nearly two dozen locations in New Jersey and New York were raided and nearly four pounds of meth, more than a pound and a half of fentanyl and $118,395 in cash were seized by a team headed by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Narcotics Task Force working with federal Homeland Security Investigations and the NYPD, they said Wednesday.