Looking back on the week for our Sunday Scramble, we saw fireworks at Tuesday night’s meeting of the mayor and council as Mayor Gonnelli and the council’s Independents pushed through the DPW promotion of an ex-firefighter. Also, the governing body is moving to raise inspection fees as it faces mounting debt, readers (and a company [...]

The New Jersey Auto Show is in town this weekend through Sunday afternoon. In addition to the latest models and deals on cars, the event, at the Meadowlands Exposition Center on Plaza Drive, has face painting and balloon artists for kids and a collection of airbrushed vehicles. Admission is from $4 to $8 with kids [...]

eSecaucus reader Emily sent in the next poll for the site to get residents’ opinions on air traffic over town. She thinks noise pollution from planes may have worsened over the past six months. Secaucus is only about 13 miles from Newark Liberty International Airport and about six miles from Teterboro Airport. A recurring southbound [...]

Steven Goldstein, who heads Garden State Equality, addresses Mayor Mike Gonnelli and the Secaucus council at Tuesday night’s public meeting in the YouTube video below:

In a blunt editorial today headlined “A Baffling Vote,” The Record slammed the promotion of Charles Snyder to superintendent of Secaucus’ Department of Public Works. “This is a baffling move, and one that shows blatant insensitivity to the public,” the paper’s editorial board wrote. “Snyder may be a good employee. But to promote him to [...]

Members of the Secaucus council are sending clear signals that the town’s financial situation is rocky, at best. First Ward Councilman Rob Costantino, who chairs the council’s finance committee, said the group will be meeting every other week this year, more frequently than in the past, to work on a long-term plan to get Secaucus’ [...]

With news cameras rolling once again at the Secaucus town hall, the mayor and council voted, 6-1, Tuesday night to promote former firefighter Charles Snyder to superintendent of the Department of Public Works. About two dozen members of Garden State Equality, a gay rights group, protested outside and attended the meeting to voice opposition to [...]

Garden State Equality, a gay rights group, is organizing a protest at Tuesday night’s public meeting of the mayor and council to voice opposition to the possible reinstatement of three Secaucus firefighters who resigned in 2008 amid a harrassment suit. The plans come as the three firemen — Charles Snyder, Charles Snyder Jr. and Charles [...]

 Added 1/25:  The Secaucus Rotary Club is collecting funds through Feb. 1 that will be donated to relief efforts in Haiti. The group, led by Donald Evanson, has set a goal of $5K by the end of the month as area Rotary clubs have been asked to raise $250K for the relief efforts. Checks should [...]

Looking back on the week: A former Secaucus building inspector is headed to jail, attorneys are reviewing the potential reinstatement of three firefighters involved in a $5M harassment suit against the town, a fire truck crashed into a car, and, well, other things happened last week… A former part-time Secaucus building inspector from 2004-07 who [...]