The Health Professionals and Allied Employees unions representing healthcare workers at three area hospitals — including Meadowlands Hospital in Secaucus — have reached tentative contract agreements with management, averting a possible strike. The Meadowlands Hospital union said on its website today that it will meet on June 1 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to vote [...]

To the editor: I have lived at the same address in Secaucus for 19 years.  And every time there is an election, my family has been able to express itself by putting up lawn signs.  Even if there had been a difference of opinion amongst the others who also lived here, there was never a [...]

Secaucus residents and members of the town’s volunteer fire department mingled on Sunday to mark Fire Service Day under sunny skies. The four-hour event showcased the Secaucus Fire Department’s equipment and skills in the Plaza parking lot and delighted many children who climbed aboard fire engines, manned a hose line (and jumped in the spray), [...]

A week that started with a somber remembrance of service members on Memorial Day, included the suspension of Secaucus’ tax collector, a busy last week for the police department, Carlstadt’s reining in a nightclub disturbing residents that sounds like a problem in town, anticipation (and a media critique) on the new parking lot at Secaucus [...]

La Mia Cucina 1259 Paterson Plank Road Secaucus, NJ 201-553-9711 www.lmcpizza.com Hours: Mon. to Sun., 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m. Reservations: N/A Delivery: Yes Takeout: Yes Online ordering: No Our take: There’s a reason you see the La Mia Cucina delivery car around town most evenings. Actually there are plenty of reasons — stuffed rigatoni, shrimp scampi, gyros and excellent salads, [...]

New Jersey Transit said today that Secaucus buses — Nos. 78, 129 and 329 — are adding a stop on northbound Meadowlands Parkway at American Way on the near side. The change is effective immediately.

Secaucus Democrats will hit the polls on Tuesday, June 2, in a primary election seen as a referendum on the administration of three-term Mayor Dennis Elwell, who is facing an insurgent challenge from the town’s public defender, Peter Weiner. In vying for another term, the 64-year-old Elwell points to major projects like the library, day-care [...]

Critiques of the new parking lot at Secaucus Junction are starting to file in ahead of its opening on Monday. Doug Bowen of something called the N.J. Association of Rail Passengers, thinks Secaucus residents should get a free pass to use to lot, especially because we lost the Harmon Cove train stop when Lautenberg Station [...]

Assemblyman Vincent Prieto (D-Secaucus) is one of three sponsors of a bill to expand health coverage for autism disorders that passed the governing body on May 27. New Jersey has the nation’s highest autism rate at 1 in 94 kids, compared with the national rate of 1 in 150. Prieto backed the bill with Speaker [...]

Carlstadt has passed an anti-nightclub ordinance that could prove similar to measures being considered in Secaucus to deal with late-night establishments like the Feelgood Lounge. Carlstadt’s mayor and council passed a restrictive ordinance in response to complaints about Jay-Dee’s Bar & Grill on Route 17, after patrons were said to create late-night disturbances in the [...]