Bus # 43, which travels from Exchange Place in Jersey City to Newark Penn Station and is the only public transportation option servicing businesses on Newark Turnpike east of Frank E. Rodgers Blvd. in Harrison to stop running.

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Harrison officials with the Hudson County Improvement Authority and a consulting firm introduced three plans for a new Route 280 exit interchange in Harrison at a public meeting at Town Hall.

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PATH ridership is up during the first half of the year, with 2012 projected to surpass the system’s annual record set last year, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced.

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According to The Observer, the New York Red Bulls paid $5,615,287.73 in taxes owed to the town for 2010 and 2011.

Town attorney Paul Zarbetski added that team's ownership will likely file a new complaint to contest taxes for 2012.

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Temperatures that soared into the high 90s couldn’t wilt the enthusiasm of the members of Harrison High School’s Class of 2012, who received their diplomas at the school’s recent 102nd commencement.

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Harrison Fire Department and firefighters from five other municipalities overcame technical difficulties to extinguish a three-alarm blaze on Washington Street early this morning.

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Steve Lipski will earn $122,532 in his new role as assistant principal. Lipski is perhaps most infamous for his 2008 arrest in Washington, D.C. for urinating on concert-goers ...

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Contractors inadvertently stuck a gas line this morning in Harrison, causing a temporary gas leak, officials said.

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Strauss Auto on Bergen Street in Harrison, NJ | Photo: Michelle Clark-McCrary

During a sequence of events that occurred quite literally overnight, Strauss Discount Auto filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and shuttered the doors of over 45 locations including its Bergen Street location here in Harrison. Despite the seeming swiftness of the store closures, according to a Bloomberg Business report, this is the auto chain’s fourth time filing Chapter 11 and yesterday’s filing in a Newark court was its third in six years.

Harrison’s credit rating upgraded by one notch. Outlook is stable.

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Moody’s Investors Service has lifted its view of Harrison’s ability to repay its debt, a year after it slashed the town’s general obligation bonds to junk over its project to lure the Red Bulls soccer team.

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