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How to stay safe during Christmas
What everyone celebrating the holiday needs to know ×
Instead of gathering for Christmas, stay home and video call your loved ones!
As Christmas approaches, staying safe and healthy is key considering the ongoing surge of COVID-19. While the vaccines may become available soon, now is not the time to become careless.
In an interview with the
Bayonne Community News, Chief Hospital Executive at Bayonne Medical Center Dr. Vijay Singh shared how to celebrate Christmas safely.
Stay home!
According to Singh, the most important precaution is to avoid traveling. People with a cough, fever or any flu-like symptoms should avoid traveling, stay home, self-isolate, and get COVID-19 tested.
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The Black community gets behind ‘Give Thanks Bayonne’
The aim is to feed the hungry
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3 / 3 Give Thanks Bayonne poses with members of the Bayonne Police Department who helped with the food distribution.
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3 / 3 Give Thanks Bayonne poses with members of the Bayonne Police Department who helped with the food distribution.
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To support those in need of food assistance for Thanksgiving, “Give Thanks Bayonne” distributed uncooked meals and hot plates of food to hundreds of local families.
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Coming together
Black in Bayonne gathered a majority of the Black-owned organizations, nonprofits, and businesses in the city on Nov. 4. During the meeting, the various groups agreed that they needed to work as a collective to do something for the community.
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Board of Education Trustee Joe Broderick resigns
The board voted for Pam Sclafene to fill the vacant position ×
Trustee Broderick speaks at the emergency board meeting on June 2 following Alonso s remarks that many residents viewed as racist.
Bayonne Board of Education Trustee Joseph Broderick has resigned. He was not present at the last board meeting of the year, but explained the reason for his departure in his resignation letter.
“Due to my recent move from Bayonne, I unfortunately have to leave the Board of Education,” he wrote. “I want to thank you for all your help and guidance. I also want to thank central office, all the Superintendents …, the Business Administrators and especially all the board members past and present I was privileged to serve with. Wishing you all the best.”
Bayonne Medical Center copes with the second surge of COVID-19 ×
Doctors and nurses at Bayonne Medical Center treat a patient in the ICU.
Amid the second surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, the rate of hospitalization in the city has increased.
In an interview with the
Bayonne Community News, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Alfredo Rabines explained how Bayonne Medical Center (BMC) is coping with the surge.
Rabines said that in the past week, the number of COVID-19 patients has gone from the low teens to almost 30.
A gradual increase
In comparison to the first surge of cases in March and April, Rabines said this time the increase has been more gradual.