Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
026sb3.doc ATHLETE OF THE WEEK Little Big Man Bautista carrying surprising Hillers to unthinkable heights Before the 1999-2000 high school basketball season began, there wasn’t a single soul in the world who gave the Union Hill basketball team a chance of competing for anything this year. The coaching staff had their doubts, secretly hoping for …
026sb1.doc Hudson still a hotbed for grid talent College signings serve as proof of county’s surprising excellence Wednesday was the national day for high school athletes all across the country to sign their letters of intent to colleges. It also was a day where Hudson County continued to shine as a producer of high quality …
Dear Dr. Norquist: I am at my wit’s end. I don’t know how to resolve this problem I am having with my husband and my son. In the past, my son would visit us or phone. His wife has always been unfriendly to my husband and me. My son once told me that if …
When students return to Secaucus High School next September, they will find their whole educational world changed. Gone will be many of the tried-and-true educational methods that have been a part of the high school regimen for nearly a century. In place of the standard 42-minute class, students will be greeted with 85-minute classes instead …
Continue reading “Block scheduling comes to the MTV generation”
(Dr. Norquist is on vacation this week. We are re-running letters that were published earlier in this column) Dear Dr. Norquist: My husband and I seem to have stopped communicating. Small things keep getting blown out of proportion. For example, we can be disagreeing about making plans for the weekend, and then he’ll …
Courtney Wicks is finally a healthy and happy 21-year-old young woman, playing college basketball at St. Peter’s College. Ever since she left high school, the simple idea of Wicks actually being healthy, happy and playing hoops at the same time really was Former All-State standout makes comeback with Peahens Courtney Wicks is finally a healthy …
After trash talk of blowouts and taunts, Marauders rout Dickinson While the starting lineups were being announced during last Saturday’s HCIAA showdown between Dickinson and St. Peter’s Prep, Dickinson senior center Rashawn Wilson stood away from his teammates, staring, laughing and shaking his head at Prep’s junior center Brian Robinson. Earlier in the week, Wilson …
Continue reading “Prep answers challenge with resounding victory”
Let’s go Rams! Years of frustration culminate in Super Bowl appearance for die-hard fanLet’s go Rams! Years of frustration culminate in Super Bowl appearance for die-hard fan It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Every year for the past eight years, since I’ve been at the Hudson Reporter, I’ve been asked by my good friend and avid Reporter …
Dear Dr. Norquist: We moved to a new school system one year ago, and started our son in the 3rd grade in the local school. Over time, I’ve noticed that he is becoming more and more excluded by most of his classmates. He calls to invite them over and is usually turned down. Now he …
They don’t wear two-way wrist radios like Dick Tracy, they don’t drive Austin Martin cars like James Bond. They don’t even wear the brims of their hats turned down over their left eye like Phillip Marlowe. Yet Elite Investigations, LTD, the private detectives who set up satellite offices in Secaucus this month, say they cover …
Continue reading “Security firm takes up residents in the northend”