Jersey City Police Probe “Threatening” Letter that Blames a Nurse for Killing Sale of Christ Hospital and for its Subsequent Bankruptcy Filing: A Christ Hospital nurse who is a union official received a threatening letter yesterday blaming her for the collapse of a deal to sell the hospital and the hospital’s subsequent bankruptcy filing. Jersey [...]
Three Jersey City Organizations Receive $80,000 in Grants: Jersey City’s Art House Productions, Liberty Science Center and the New Jersey Health Literacy Coalition received a total of $80,000 in grants from the Horizon Foundation of New Jersey for their work in Hudson County, the foundation announced on Friday. Coach Pushes to Bring Intercollegiate Sports Back [...]
For full listings, check out the Cultural Calendar. Want your event listed on our calendar? You can submit it yourself — just click here and follow the simple instructions. TODAY Ease yourself away from the cutthroat intensity of Black Friday with some soothing live music. At Boca Grande, jazz pro Don Carter plays his weekly [...]
Jersey City nonprofit Liberty Science Center announced today that author and journalist Paul Hoffman will take over as the institution’s fifth president and CEO. Hoffman, the author of several books and scores of magazine articles, will begin November 1. According to his own biography, Hoffman “is a journalist and biographer whose work explores the relationship [...]
Jersey City’s Liberty Science Center (LSC) has received a $100,000 grant from UnitedHealthcare to develop an interactive education program, Keeping Our Bodies Healthy, designed to help youths prevent and overcome obesity. The program will be developed and tested this summer before being rolled out in Newark public schools this fall; it will later be made [...]
Liberty Science Center (LSC) is set to honor three science leaders this evening at its sold-out Citizen Science Gala. Being honored this year by LSC are Jane Goodall (“for her commitment to inspiring each of us to preserve our natural world and its inhabitants”), Dr. Sanjay Gupta (“for encouraging informed public dialogue on important issues [...]
- St. Anne’s Closing: St. Anne’s School in the Jersey City Heights, which is more than $300,000 in debt, has been told it will close at the end of the school year. – LSC Head Steps Down: After a 15-year run as president and CEO of the Liberty Science Center, Emlyn Koster is stepping down. [...]
An old favorite returns to Liberty Science Center (LSC) beginning tomorrow as the Touch Tunnel exhibit comes back after a six-year absence. The tunnel, which has been closed since 2005, consists of a pitch-black maze that visitors crawl through, navigating by touch alone. “Exploring an unknown environment in the dark brings into focus just how [...]
The Christie administration today announced it has approved the applications of two Jersey City charter schools that it had rejected last fall, as part of a green-light for 23 new charter schools statewide, the largest ever number approved in one application cycle in New Jersey. The charters approved in Jersey City are the Mathematics, Engineering, [...]
Although the 12 Days of Christmas don’t start until Saturday, the 12 Days of Science begin today at the Liberty Science Center. The dozen-day event, now in its fourth year, includes a wide variety of programming each day, including a theremin demo by Kip Rosser, an ice cream making demo, special appearances by “mathemagician” Art [...]
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