Category: Secaucus News

Mayor Michael Gonnelli attended Tuesday’s Secaucus Town Council meeting, the first since he suffered from a stroke in his home on June 8. Various attendees said they were glad to have him back at work. “We tried to keep him resting until the end of August, but we couldn’t keep him down,” Councilman Gary Jeffas …

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Secaucus public school students go back to class on Thursday, Sept. 8. That day and Friday Sept. 9, are half days for all students. Elementary students can expect new classrooms, and the middle school students and high school students are now under one roof. Clarendon Elementary School is giving away free coffee and juice to …

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Because a “creepy” man reportedly entered the playground area of Lincoln Park in Jersey City and took pictures of children there recently, the Hudson County Board of Freeholders has moved to ban adults unaccompanied by children from playgrounds in any of the county parks. These include fenced-in playground areas like those within Columbus Park in …

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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 …

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If you’re going on vacation or just hanging out locally, take a photo with any Reporter newspaper, including the Bayonne Community News, and send it to us! We’d love to print it and show your neighbors where you went. Visiting relatives in the next town? Hanging out down the Shore? Riding a camel in the …

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Report: Potential buyer interested in Meadowlands Hospital Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus has an interested buyer, according to a recent story on NJ.com. The buyer, a for-profit company called NJMHAC LLC, submitted an application to buy the hospital on July 1, according to the report. Meadowlands spokesman Al Gaburo said on Friday, Aug. 19 in the …

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SECAUCUS — Town Administrator David Drumeler announced at Tuesday’s Secaucus Town Council meeting that he will be resigning to work as the deputy administrator for Hudson County. He’ll step away from the town position he’s held for eight years on Friday, Sept. 16. In his letter to the mayor, he said, “It has been both …

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HUDSON COUNTY — According to a press release from the Hackensack Riverkeeper, pirates are welcome and encouraged at its 2016 SPLASH event called RiverFest–Pirates of the Hackensack, to take place along the river in Secaucus next month. All participants can dress and talk like a pirate at the event on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Laurel …

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After two months without speaking publicly, Mayor Michael Gonnelli, who suffered a stroke in his home on the evening of June 8, said last week that he’ll be back at work on Thursday, Sept. 1. In an interview, he also talked about the harrowing day in which he was rushed to the hospital, and how …

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