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This month’s election for the Secaucus Board of Education could mark a significant changing of the guard. Three long-serving incumbents who were up for re-election this year – Mauro DeGennaro, Mark Bruscino, and Angelo Adriani – chose not to seek office again, leaving the field wide open for newcomers. Seven candidates are running for the …
Everybody has seen those bumper stickers – always affixed to some beat-up jalopy – that read: My other car is a Porsche. Generally, those stickers are meant to generate laughs. Angelo Marra II could put a sticker on his nondescript black van that reads: My other car is the Batmobile – only in his case, …
Continue reading “A Batmobile in the PlazaResident brings TV history to Secaucus”
Schools Superintendent Cynthia Randina and School Business Administrator Edward Walkiewicz presented the proposed budget for the 2009-2010 school year at a Secaucus Board of Education meeting on March 30. The total projected budget is expected to be just over $35 million, a figure that includes grants and debt service. The portion of the budget to …
Continue reading “Modest tax increase from schoolsResidents may vote on $35M budget in April”
Rare is the comedic actor who can take a script and make it come alive with wit, without being either too highbrow or too childish. Rarer still is the comedic actor who can take a mere concept, generate his own script spontaneously onstage, and strike the same balance. As a founding member of the Upright …
Continue reading “Going for the laughsSecaucus native makes good in Hollywood”
It’s a sight reminiscent of the bad old days in Secaucus and the Meadowlands. A rusting home appliance sits overturned among the brush. An abandoned toilet sits a few yards away. Unidentifiable household goods – lamps, perhaps? – are strewn among small pies of garbage. New County Road Extension, located near Xchange at Secaucus Junction …
Continue reading “Blast from the pastIllegal dumping resurfaces in Secaucus”
The Town Council approved 23 contracts to lawyers, accountants, and other professionals at their meeting on Tuesday, spending more than $1 million. This represents $110,000 less than last year, when the council approved 24 such contracts. But despite the savings to Secaucus taxpayers, some council representatives and members of the community expressed concern over the …
It was inspirational author Robert Fulghum, not Theodor Seuss Geisel, who coined the phrase, “All I needed to know I learned in kindergarten.” But the moral current that runs through Fulghum’s work is evident throughout “Seussical,” this year’s Secaucus High School musical. A clever reworking of the familiar Dr. Seuss classics, “Seussical” combines several Geisel …
Continue reading “Secaucus hears a WhoHigh school to perform ‘Seussical’”
Will Secaucus join the list of New Jersey municipalities that will – due to rising costs and declining state aid – have to raise taxes this year? Members of the Town Council will begin to answer this question next month when they get their first look at the proposed 2009 municipal budget. Last year, Mayor …
Continue reading “What’ll it cost to run Secaucus? 2009 town budget coming soon”
Few people are able to turn their obsessions into full-time careers. Mark Lapidos, founder and organizer of the annual Festival for Beatles Fans, is one of the lucky few. “I fell in love with the Beatles from the first time I heard ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ in ’64. In 1973 I just said …
Continue reading “Beatlemania coming to MeadowlandsAnnual tribute festival is back”
Who hasn’t experienced the horrible sinking feeling that comes after a wallet has been misplaced or stolen? Call it the three stages of loss. First comes panic, then bargaining: “Please, God, help me find it. I promise I’ll never be careless again.” And then comes the third stage: realizing that everything – drivers license, credit …
Continue reading “Secaucus Samaritan returns woman’s purseAnonymous man drives valuables to Hoboken”