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It wasn’t immediately clear how she died, but the impact on the people she left behind was starkly felt Tuesday night. “She really was the heart of Hoboken, she is beloved by so many people in this community,” Councilwoman Tiffanie Fisher told The Post. “I’m lucky that I got to call her one of my closest friends, but she was close friends with so many in our community.” Fisher said she got to know Giattino when Fisher first ran for office nearly 10 years ago because the pair were on the same ticket. “There is no better councilperson than her,”...

Spring rains often bring scores of earthworms to the surface, where they writhe on top of soil and sidewalks. But recently, heavy rainfall in a town near New York City was followed by something a little more unusual: a wormnado. A resident of Hoboken, New Jersey was out for a morning walk in a park near the Hudson River on March 25, when she spotted hundreds of worms spread along the walkway. The woman, who asked not to be identified, told Live Science that after her initial surprise she noticed something even more bizarre — a number of the worms...