Need for new high school addressed Plan for $60 million facility in North Hudson Park will be introduced to residents

Citing what he called a “crisis situation” regarding overcrowded classrooms, North Bergen Superintendent of Schools Peter Fischbach, along with several other officials, formally introduced the plan to build a new high school within the confines of North Hudson-Braddock Park by the year 2005. The plan calls for a $60 million facility located at the northwest …

State’s smallest firefighter? Vogel earns place in Secaucus department

Although he is only 4-foot-3 inches tall, Mark Vogel has made it big – he was accepted last week as a volunteer firefighter in the town of Secaucus, and is perhaps the shortest firefighter in the state. “I’ve wanted this all my life,” said the diminutive resident last week at his job at the Secaucus …

A look ahead HMDC hopes to get master plan done in 2000

A bright future awaits the Hackensack Meadowlands, said Michael Gonnelli, a commissioner on the Hackensack Meadowlands Development Commission, predicting what will come in the year 2000. Among the most crucial activities will be adopting a final Special Area Management Plan, something that has been in the works for over a decade, but has been under …