Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: Senator and Mayor Brian P. Stack’s bill that would require a mental health background check for drivers for Uber and Lyft is a great step in the right direction to protect the segment of the public who are starting to use the newest additions to the sharing community programs. (Union City Reporter 10/12/14) …
Dear Editor: When your child or loved one has an intellectual or developmental disability, you spend a lot of time worrying about the future. That is why I was very grateful that Congress passed and the President recently signed the Achieving a Better Life Experience Act also known as the ABLE Act. This legislation will …
Dear Editor:While discussing the recent “war” about to take place between acting Secaucus Police Chief John Cerny and Mayor Gonnelli, I remembered an episode I had with both of them. Permit me to share this episode with your readers, they may find it somewhat enlightening. At the Oct. 18, 2012 Board of Education meeting, a …
Dear Editor: At the Oct. 16 Board of Education meeting, trustee Kathy Huber O’Connell took exception to my leaving the meeting before it had concluded, calling the questions I raised and my departure as being “disrespectful” to the board. She entitled to her opinion. When I read her statement in a local newspaper, and viewed …
Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to thank some of my family members and friends for all the help they are giving me since my recent hip replacement operation. My grandson George 3rd, sons Robert and Will, and my daughter, Judith. I would also like to thank friends Joe and Marie DeMartine …
Dear Editor: December 12, 1915: On what would have been his 99th birthday, I want to pay homage to Frank Sinatra, the man who gave us so many years of first class entertainment via radio, TV, personal appearances and films. If you read any of the many books written about Frank Sinatra, you come away …
Dear Editor: In the early 1950s the phrase “under God” was so rightfully added to our Pledge of Allegiance to our great flag in this great country. This was and continues to be a refreshing and stimulating addition to our pledge. Unfortunately, recently there has been a group of atheists in Monmouth County who filed …
Dear Editor: Nowadays on the television we see commercials depicting the horrible after-effects of a lifetime of smoking. Usually they show a man or woman who has a hole in their throat, and must speak with an electrolarynx. Older commercials made use of the images of a smoke-free lung compared to a lung of a …
Dear Editor: I thought I’d have some fun with all the questions being asked of me ever since my letter to your column. The curiosity circulating in town, now that former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell is back in town after serving 30 months in federal prison, is amazing. To have some fun with this topic …
Dear Editor: For the last two years I have been trying to trace descendants of my great Uncle John Hamilton and his wife Barbara Banks. They immigrated to New York in 1867 and had two children there, then moved to Jersey City, where they had five more children. Their address was 16 Paterson Plank Rd. …