Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
Arbor Day ceremony and tree seedling giveaway at Clarendon School Secaucus will celebrate Arbor Day on Friday, April 29 at 9:30 a.m. at Clarendon School. Everyone is welcome to this special event. Clarendon Principal Steve Viggiani will host the program which will include remarks from Mayor Michael Gonnelli, Assembly Speaker Vincent Prieto, and Freeholder Albert …
In a public ceremony, New Jersey Transit opened a newly expanded bus plaza at the Secaucus Junction train station on Tuesday, March 29. The six new lanes at the bus plaza will serve intrastate lines, interstate lines, requested Secaucus “EZ Ride” rides, and Secaucus shuttle bus routes. The plaza now has a total of 14 …
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Following a ribbon cutting on April 5, a group of residents and government workers took a walk on the new waterfront promenade that had just opened at Secaucus’ Laurel Hill Park. The U-shaped walkway, which joins the park on Dinosaur Way to the waterfront, will contain or lead to new fishing stations, an existing dog …
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Did you know the various ways children display stress immediately after a disaster? Or how important it is for a child to know his or her address and full name? During the PSEG and Sesame Workshop safety assembly at Clarendon Elementary School in Secaucus on March 22, families learned several important lessons so they could …
Continue reading “When your kid’s teacher is a monster
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The reporters, graphic artists, and advertising account executives for the Hudson Reporter newspapers recently won 17 awards in the annual Better Newspaper Contest run annually by the New Jersey Press Association. The awards included a clean sweep for the company’s three lifestyle magazines. The publications competed with daily newspapers, weekly papers, and newsmagazines from around …
Continue reading “Top honors for ads, art, investigative reporting, magazines
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For Ashley George, a public relations specialist in Jersey City, the idea that moving companies might donate food to local food banks made sense. Many people throw out a good deal of stuff when they move. A lot of this is food that could be delivered to a family in need rather than thrown away. …
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St. Peter’s screens free documentary on economic inequality on April 10 St. Peter’s University Social Justice Program is sponsoring a free showing of the film “Inequality for All.” Robert Reich’s award-winning documentary is a passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, and explains the current state of growing income inequality in our nation in …
When beehives in the Meadowlands were vandalized, one of the members of the North East New Jersey Beekeepers Association (NENJBA) reached out to PSE&G, hoping that the company had video cameras that might have seen who did it. One of the members of the association had strategically located her hives in the Meadowlands, and found …
Continue reading “Bayonne bees to the rescue
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“There will be no increase in the municipal budget,” announced Councilman Rob Costantino at the Town Council meeting on March 22. “That’s definite.” The proposed municipal budget for 2016 is $53,348,385.23. A detailed breakdown has been posted online on the town’s website, secaucusnj.gov, along with a user-friendly version. Following the introduction of the budget at …
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Hudson County has a thriving arts scene, with acclaimed and active artistic communities in Hoboken and Jersey City, and upcoming movements in North Bergen, Guttenberg, and Union City. Recently Secaucus has been leapfrogging ahead in its support of the arts, with programs such as the mural project beautifying the town and the ongoing art shows …
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