Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Dear Editor: With the new school year just around the corner, parents’ attention is turning to school clothes, supplies, and lunches. Yes, school lunches. Traditionally, USDA had used the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for surplus meat and dairy commodities. Not surprisingly, its own surveys indicate that children consume excessive amounts of …
Dear Editor: We would like to thank everyone for their mass cards, thoughts and prayers, and the numerous donations to the Wounded Warrior Project in memory of our mother, grandmother and great grandmother, Loretta Kloo. Special thanks to the Secaucus Police Department and the New Jersey State Police for their assistance and escort to the …
Dear Editor: I am truly thankful for the wonderful tribute I received recently with the dedication ceremony of Paul Amico Way, formerly New County Road. It is humbling to have a street in your hometown named in your honor, and I am grateful that the town and the county saw fit to do this while …
Dear Editor: After the Wisconsin shooting at Sikh Temple, We, South Asians living in the USA and Canada, must beef-up security at all our Temple and Mosque for protection of our people from further loss of precious lives. American Hindus, Sikh, and Muslims love the United States of America and they feel the USA is …
Dear Editor: The item in the Briefs section of the July 29 Secaucus Reporter reporting the theft – there is nothing else to call it – of Secaucus taxpayers’ money by the Meadowlands Commission was ire-provoking in itself, but the accompanying article reporting the Commission’s meddling in the affairs of the Secaucus fire department was …
Dear Editor: I have always operated under the premise that you can accomplish more with teamwork when no one is concerned about who got the credit. During the last Board of Education campaign Mayor Gonnelli made the following statement. “Troyer accomplished zero over the years he has been a board trustee.” At the last council …
Dear Editor: When you enter Union City from its neighboring towns and cities, Mayor Brian P. Stack, welcomes you with a sign that states “Union City proud of our ethnic and diverse culture”. This statement was emulated on July 26, 2012, when the Union City Board of Education named the new school at 15th Street …
Dear Editor: For over 20 years the Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey through its distinction as being the largest, continuous public service campaign in New Jersey has blanketed the state with messages to families and children to help prevent the devastating effects of substance abuse. Regardless of caring parents and well-informed teens, unfortunately, some …
Dear Editor: The letter written last week to thank everyone for donations and help with the Mark Vogel Memorial didn’t include some of the most important people – Ray Cieciuch and Washington Hook and Ladder for all your hard work and “the table”, The Secaucus Fire Department, George Sakaffi for all the MC preparation and …
Dear Editor: Could the media please give us a break with endless grisly accounts of the Aurora killings? I understand it was a tragedy, and our sympathies lie with the 70 innocent victims. But, we also need to appreciate that Eighty-six Americans are killed by firearms every day, and nearly 4,000 are killed prematurely by …