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Registration Now Open For 5K In Newark Benefiting Integrity House Registration Now Open For 5K In Newark Benefiting Integrity House
Registration Now Open For 5K In Newark Benefiting Integrity House Runners can now register for the annual Newark Corporate and Individual 5K, which will be held Oct. 2 in downtown Newark.  The run will benefit Integrity House, the nonprofit substance-abuse treatment organization that runs programs in Newark, Jersey City, Kearny, Secaucus, Morris Plains and Toms River.  This year's run is intended to help raise awareness of the nation's growing substance abuse epidemic.  The run starts at Washington Park at 12:15 p.m. and participants can run individually or in teams. Individuals can register up until race day but teams must register by Sep…

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by Paul Milo
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Newark Seeks To Keep Housing Affordable, Contain Gentrification Newark Seeks To Keep Housing Affordable, Contain Gentrification
Newark Seeks To Keep Housing Affordable, Contain Gentrification For decades Newark has been struggling to rebuild since the violent racial disturbances of the late 1960s left swaths of the city devastated and fueled white flight to the suburbs. Now that those efforts are beginning to pay off, the city faces another growing challenge: gentrification. Rents in at least some parts of the city, which had been rising steadily for years, have now begun to soar out of range for many longtime residents. The administration of Mayor Ras Baraka has formed an 11-member commission of experts and stakeholders to “ensure that development policies and projects in New…

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by Paul Milo