Masks will be optional for students, staff, and visitors to the Jersey City Public Schools as of Monday, March 7, Acting Superintendent Norma Fernandez announced.

https://jcitytimes.com/masks-optional- ... schools-effective-monday/

A former payroll clerk for the Jersey City Department of Recreation was sentenced to prison today in connection with a scheme to inflate payroll hours for certain former part-time and seasonal employees who were her relatives or personal associates.

https://jcitytimes.com/department-of-r ... ed-to-three-years-prison/

An indispensable guide to this weekend's art from Tris McCall.

https://jcitytimes.com/a-jc-fridays-itinerary-march-2022/

For the second time this week, a man has been arrested in the sexual assault of his stepdaughter.

https://jcitytimes.com/second-man-in-w ... ssault-of-a-stepdaughter/

Liz Morrill gives a thorough rundown on the mayor's State of the City Address.

https://jcitytimes.com/mayor-declares- ... tate-of-the-city-address/

Authorities have arrested a man in the sexual assault of his stepdaughter.

https://jcitytimes.com/man-arrested-in ... -assault-of-stepdaughter/

In the last few days, two new studies came out. They give Jersey City high marks for both happiness and bike friendliness.

https://jcitytimes.com/new-studies-jer ... nd-great-for-bike-riders/

At Thursday’s City Council meeting, council intern Aleyna Kilic testified about a recent call to the city’s 911 operators that went unacknowledged for seven minutes.

https://jcitytimes.com/city-council-he ... lay-in-911-call-response/

Authorities announced an arrest this morning in the fatal January shooting of Raheem Bostick in Bergen-Lafayette.

https://jcitytimes.com/police-make-arr ... bergen-lafayette-killing/

Jersey City Board of Education trustees at Thursday’s board meeting heard the results of a state-mandated test that had been administered to measure students’ learning needs after 18 months of virtual classes.

https://jcitytimes.com/impact-of-remot ... aid-bare-by-test-results/

A report of shots fired in Bergen-Lafayette had a happy ending this afternoon when instead of shooters police encountered a friendly pitbull.

https://jcitytimes.com/police-respond- ... iscover-friendly-pitbull/

“100 Days of a Pandemic,” a chronicle of loneliness and disintegration, peppered with occasional violent outbursts, is the centerpiece of “Seeing Someone Else Is Seeing Yourself,” his solo show at the Fine Arts Gallery at Saint Peter’s University (Mac Mahon Student Center, 47 Glenwood Ave.)

https://jcitytimes.com/p-e-pinkmans-pa ... peters-fine-arts-gallery/

Authorities announced this morning that the pedestrian injured in yesterday’s incident at John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Montgomery Street was a 67-year-old woman.

https://jcitytimes.com/victim-in-yeste ... ied-as-67-year-old-woman/

At Tuesday’s Municipal Council caucus meeting, council members vented frustration about public parking in the Heights, poor service offered by the Via transit shuttle, and incorrect billings of residents by the Municipal Utilities Authority.

https://jcitytimes.com/parking-via-and ... -tuesdays-council-caucus/

Covid-19 cases are down statewide, and it’s a great time to get out and partake of some of the many ways to experience Jersey City. This weekend, there’s a community chorus concert, a celebration of Dominican Republic Independence Day, live comedy, and more.

https://jcitytimes.com/this-weekend-38/

The group Ukrainian Jersey City has announced a meeting on Friday night “to bring people together for the purpose of cultural exchange, diplomacy and conversation.”

https://jcitytimes.com/ukrainian-jerse ... nounces-friday-gathering/

A new report paints a bullish picture of real estate development in Jersey City.

https://jcitytimes.com/despite-afforda ... -jersey-city-development/

A gaggle of comics take the stage. Most of them are stoned; one is sober. Can you find the straight one?

https://jcitytimes.com/stoned-comedian ... in-gameshow-this-weekend/

Two people were arrested yesterday in connection with the ingestion of methamphetamines by a 5 year-old boy.

https://jcitytimes.com/two-arrested-af ... ingests-methamphetamines/

The details are still sketchy, but a picture has now emerged of a wild 2021 shootout that left one man dead in the shadow of the I-78 overpass Downtown.

https://jcitytimes.com/details-emerge- ... sulting-in-three-arrests/

If it seems as if Jersey City is filling up with former New Yorkers, that’s because it is, at least according to a new report.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-is- ... s-moving-out-says-study/?

Jersey City Police Officer Marvin Leggitts was one of nearly 400 New Jersey cops who faced major discipline last year.
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The show at Benjamin J. Dineen III and Dennis Hull Gallery at Hudson County Community College (71 Sip Avenue) features work by Roger Sayre, Doris Caçiolo, Sharon Lee De La Cruz, Allison Greene, Eun Young Choi, Stephanie Tichenor, and Mary Tooley Parker.

https://jcitytimes.com/living-in-the-i ... e-at-dineen-hull-gallery/

The MUA has announced a preventive program, “Lead Free JC,” to replace all lead “service lines” in the city over the next decade.

https://jcitytimes.com/jersey-city-mun ... replace-lead-water-pipes/

Mario “B’ Gonzalez, who has owned, operated, and taught in the Jersey City studio for 17 years after starting in his hometown of Hoboken, says salsa is an “amazing five-minute physical conversation with a person that you can’t get anywhere else.”

https://jcitytimes.com/a-salsa-dance-s ... -the-heights-open-to-all/

Two new studies paint a mixed picture of the finances of Jersey City residents.

https://jcitytimes.com/new-studies-jer ... nts-manage-finances-well/

Erich Sekel heads up Rebuilding Together Jersey City, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing neighborhoods, one building at a time.

https://jcitytimes.com/st-peters-man-g ... repairing-homes-for-free/

Detectives from the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office are on their way to the scene of a homicide tonight.

https://jcitytimes.com/detectives-en-r ... ene-of-reported-homicide/

Nearly fifteen years after the crime, a Harrison man has pleaded guilty to the 2007 murder of a Jersey City trucker.

https://jcitytimes.com/cold-case-unit- ... n-2007-murder-of-trucker/

A Jersey City man was arrested yesterday in the sexual assault of a young girl.

https://jcitytimes.com/local-man-arres ... al-assault-of-young-girl/