SECAUCUS BRIEFS

Halloween safety assembly at Huber Street School Officer William Eccles from the LEAD program discussed Halloween safety with 3rd through 5th graders. Students learned about how to stay safe when they trick or treat on Halloween. He talked about how they should walk in the neighborhood and be very careful when they are crossing the …

Council replaces Town Administrator Drumeler
Also approves a new butterfly meadow, rain garden for Radio Avenue

The members of the Secaucus Town Council appointed Town Attorney Keri Ann Eglentowicz to replace Town Administrator David Drumeler at their meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The town administrator is one of the top Town Hall employees, paid to help run the town, and Drumeler had served since 2008. He has moved on to work …

Also approves a new butterfly meadow, rain garden for Radio Avenue

Dozens of dumped ducks depart
Officials and residents round up flocks that someone left during summer

In July, according to Secaucus Police Detective Sgt. Michael Torres, the town’s Police Department received calls about someone leaving ducks near Mill Creek Mall and Harmon Cove condominiums in Secaucus. According to Geoff Santini of the NJ Animal Control and Rescue and Humane Society, he apprehended the Secaucus woman soon after on seven counts of …

Officials and residents round up flocks that someone left during summer

You can get there from here
Local planner offers alternative route to connect NYC subway with Secaucus

Port Authority officials and other officials speaking about a three-year-old New York and New Jersey commuter capacity study suggested in late September that a previously shelved plan to extend the No. 7 subway line from New York to New Jersey may be revived in an effort to reduce bus traffic flow into the Port Authority …

Local planner offers alternative route to connect NYC subway with Secaucus

NJ highest in nation for adults living with parents
But Hudson County clocks in much lower

What used to be the norm – graduating from school and finding a place of your own – is increasingly challenging for the millennial generation. Roughly 47 percent of New Jerseyeans aged 18-34 live at home with parents, the highest rate in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2015 American Community Survey. Connecticut …

But Hudson County clocks in much lower

Union City’s stray cats star in book
NY woman talks about catching town’s felines in newly published memoir

Before living in Union City for 10 years, author of “To Catch a Cat” Heather Green lived and worked as a journalist in Manhattan. When visiting her boyfriend Matt Greer in Union City on weekends, she saw a mother cat caring for three kittens in his neighbor’s backyard, and fell in love. She wanted to …

NY woman talks about catching town’s felines in newly published memoir

You can get there from here
Local planner offers alternative route to connect NYC subway with Secaucus

Port Authority officials and other officials speaking about a three-year-old New York and New Jersey commuter capacity study suggested in late September that a previously shelved plan to extend the No. 7 subway line from New York to New Jersey may be revived in an effort to reduce bus traffic flow into the Port Authority …

Local planner offers alternative route to connect NYC subway with Secaucus

SECAUCUS BRIEFS

Police investigate fatal hit-and-run on Tonnelle Avenue in North Bergen According to a press release from the North Bergen Police Department, at approximately 12:06 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 2 the North Bergen Police and the Hudson County Sheriff’s Office Crash Investigation Unit responded to a report of a pedestrian struck. North Bergen police officers arrived …

Leaving darkness behind
Families walk to raise suicide awareness

Krystle Duffy went to the annual Out of the Darkness suicide prevention walk and fundraiser in Secaucus two weekends ago to honor her brother Tommy Duffy, 21, who died from suicide in March 2014. She came with a team of 16 family members and friends to donate to the American Foundation of Suicide Prevention, and …

Families walk to raise suicide awareness