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School Cuts Approach $2M
Secaucus Superintendent Cynthia Randina said today that proposed cuts to the town’s education budget for next year are approaching $2M, complicating an already difficult budget process and likely sparking a wave of jockeying ahead of the April school board elections.
That estimate expands on the $829K in cuts outlined by business administrator Ed Walkiewicz last month.
Randina said administrators [...]
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Beer Celebrates Exit 16
If you were creating a beer to capture the essence of Secaucus, what would it taste like? That's the question facing ...
Secaucus Man Charged with Fraud
A 36-year-old Secaucus man who is a Jersey City police officer was arrested this morning on charges that he obtained ...
The Secaucus mayor and council are set to meet Tuesday night for the governing body's first public meeting of March. A ...
NT Transit Fare HikeHearing Set for Secaucus
Secaucus residents who commute to New York (or anywhere via NJ Transit) will have a chance to vent their feelings ...
Impreveduto Resigns to Retire
Updated 3/5: Patrick Impreveduto, principal of Secaucus Middle School and a veteran educator in town who has been absent since ...
Pats Hold On Vs. High Tech
By Jason Bernstein HudsonCountyVarsity.com SECAUCUS – Throughout the season, Secaucus has made a habit of putting games away early on. Despite some ...
BOE: Six Vie for Three Slots
Six candidates will vie for three Secaucus Board of Education trustee slots in the upcoming April election. Current trustees Anthony Gerbasio ...
Secaucus Edges B-Tech
By Jason Bernstein HudsonCountyVarsity.com Andrea Innis’ free throw with nine seconds left proved to be the difference as the second-seeded Patriots held ...
Ret. Secaucus Cop ThrowsHat Into Sheriff’s Race
Retired Secaucus Police Sergeant Frank Schillari, who is Hudson County Undersheriff, has filed initial papers to run for H.C. Sheriff ...
Secaucus Not in TJ Plans
Town officials and residents have said the grocery chain Trader Joe's is considering a Secaucus location, but it doesn't appear ...
Schools
BOE: Six Vie for Three Slots Six candidates will vie for three Secaucus Board of Education trustee slots in the upcoming April election.
Current trustees Anthony Gerbasio and Frank Trombetta have said they will step down at the end of their three-year terms on the nine-member board, while current president Jack McStowe will defend his seat.
Filing petitions by the March 1 deadline [...]
Community
Bald But Bold Nick Rivelli, a lifelong Secaucus resident, sent word about an interesting event with former Secaucus resident Dr. Mike McCue, who is raising money for childhood cancer research by getting people like Nick to shave their heads.
“Shaving the Way to Conquer Kid’s Cancer” will benefit the St. Baldrick’s Foundation and Rivelli said he’s had some early [...]
Shopping
Secaucus Not in TJ Plans Town officials and residents have said the grocery chain Trader Joe’s is considering a Secaucus location, but it doesn’t appear to be on the company’s immediate radar.
“At this time, it is not in our 2 year plan of opening a location in Secaucus, NJ,” Alison Mochizuki, director of national publicity for the company, told eSecaucus.com.
Wal-Mart [...]
Council Meetings
M&C Wrap-Up At Tuesday night’s meeting of the mayor and council: there’s more than meets in the eye with Secaucus’ precipitous decline in NJ Monthly’s ranking, cost-savings at the new recreation center, council meetings to air on TV starting next week, recreation revamp is underway from concerts to holiday events, feral cats are in the cross hairs, [...]
Sports
Pats Hold On Vs. High Tech By Jason Bernstein
HudsonCountyVarsity.com
SECAUCUS – Throughout the season, Secaucus has made a habit of putting games away early on. Despite some stressful moments late in the game, the Patriots once again took a quick lead and made it stick, defeating High Tech 50-43 in the second round of the NJSIAA North 2, Group I tournament Tuesday [...]
Business
Biz Briefs: Game Store, Xanadu It looks like Secaucus Plaza’s newest tennant will be a video game store. We snapped these photos the other day.
Update: The store is called Planet Games (201-210-2268) and it is slated to be open seven days a week.
As far as competition, there’s a GameStop retail store over on Mill Creek Drive. The Plaza gets a [...]
police blotter
Blotter: Thefts, Assault, Burglary This week from the Secaucus P.D., a group of Secaucus juveniles were arrested for theft of a lawn ornament, an altercation with a cab driver leads to theft and assault charges, shoplifting, and alleged perpetrators of a car break-in are caught in Little Ferry…
Information for this column was provided by Det. Sgt. Thomas O’Keeffe of [...]


