Our Digital Archive from 2000 – 2016
The Twentieth Century is almost gone, it had so much hate and so much wrong. John Kennedy and wife died in an airplane crash, Abdo Diallos= murder by cops had a backlash. Our government is not for the poor or old, for a piece of money they sold their soul. Our children have lost their …
Dear Editor: Like the billions of people around the world, we in Hudson County are about to embark on a wonderful adventure as we enter the new millennium. While on the surface only the year number will change, the significance of this change goes so much deeper. We will all subscribe to a new way …
Dear Editor: I do enjoy receiving my weekly paper, but I don’t understand how you can not have a listing of the 14 movie screens located in Secaucus. For a paper named for my town, I would expect to be able to see what is playing here and not in Guttenberg, West New York, North …
Dear Editor: In January when most people are throwing away their tree, discarding old and broken ornaments, light bulbs, etc. politicians are doing just the opposite. Around this time of year they get ready to reorganize town government. It is their time, [politically speaking that is] to display their political tree [figuratively speaking that is] …
More than 400 new police officers have been hired by eight North Hudson cities since 1995 under federal law enforcement grants, but there is now a question as to what will happen to the forces – and the taxpayers – when a quarter of the grants run out. Some officials believe tax hikes or layoffs …
Continue reading “Some officials unsure how to deal with expiring police grants”
Richard Ricco was replaced as chairman of the Secaucus Municipal Utilities Authority Monday in one of a series of moves that may spell the end of a decade-long multi-million dollar lawsuit. The moves, made at the Feb. 6 SMUA reorganization meeting, also may have demonstrated a flexing of political muscle from Mayor Dennis Elwell’s office. …
Continue reading “SMUA reorganizes with significant changes”
At Monday’s SMUA meeting, the commissioners voted to hire an independent auditor – a move for which newly-elected mayor Dennis Elwell has pushed for years – and filled the vacated post of legal counsel. While the SMUA voted to continue the services of Bill Katchin as its auditor at $15,000 a year, $5,000 less than …
What if Secaucus could provide up-to-date information about impending disasters – not just national bulletins or weather reports, but scenes from around the town via a public access station? Last year, the town rebuilt its emergency preparedness facilities to provide quick responses to disasters in the area, from heavier-than-normal snowstorms to hurricanes such as Floyd. …
Continue reading “Panasonic donates needed video equipment to OEM”
Ever since the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission established the tax-sharing pool for the communities that make up the Hackensack Meadowlands, people have complained. The municipalities that paid into the tax-sharing pool claimed they paid too much; those that received money sometimes claimed they did not enough. Yet by far the biggest complaint from communities revolved …
Continue reading “HMDC revises its formula, making it easier for towns to budget”
Picket lines at Meadowview Hospital last week temporarily halted work authorized by the Hudson County Board of Freeholders, as the county and unions tried to work out contract details. Although an agreement with the county started the work rolling again, the construction project caused a clash between Freeholder William O’Dea and the County Administrator Abe …
Continue reading “Freeholders press to make contractors comply”