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 [...]

Secaucus schools will be closed Friday due to the ongoing snow storm. Also, the Secaucus Board of Education meeting slated for Feb. 25 has been canceled because of the storm. The next meeting is set for March 25 at Huber Street School.

Michael Makarski, a trustee of the Secaucus Board of Education, said he is “extremely frustrated” by the pending retirement of the district’s recently hired director of math, science and technology, Michael Kanarek, and thinks the $132K-a-year position should be nixed. Makarski outlined his feelings on his new blog at mikemakarski.wordpress.com. Makarski, who is active in [...]

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, [...]

State aid cuts to Secaucus schools will total nearly $829K over the next year, sparking fiscal maneuvering and likely spending cuts by the district. Business administrator Ed Walkiewicz told this website that the previously reported cut of $575,974 this year is coupled with a reduction next year of $252,921. The cuts have been ordered by [...]

Thirty-five-year Secaucus Police Department veteran Capt. John Buckley was promoted to the new position of chief of detectives Tuesday night, an advancement described by officials as a long time coming. Swearing an oath before the governing body and public at the mayor and council’s Feb. 23 meeting, Buckley was flanked by his wife, Theresa, son [...]

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 [...]

Three women were arrested Feb. 17 on prostitution charges following reports about activity at Blue Spa & Massage in Secaucus on Route 3 East, police said. Secaucus detectives investigated the reports and busted two Flushing, N.Y., women, along with a 50-year-old Leonia woman at the business at around 11 a.m. last Wednesday, said Detective Sgt. [...]

Update: Secaucus Superintendent Cynthia Randina provided us with a response to the results from the state school report cards issued this month. Here’s what she had to say (the original story follows below): Generally speaking, our scores are good considering that the Department of Education raised proficiency benchmarks for making adequate yearly progress in the [...]

The Secaucus mayor and council is slated to introduce ordinances to build a new water tank for Engine Co. 5 and amend various town fees at its second public meeting of February Tuesday night. The meeting will also be the first to be videotaped for airing later in the week on Comcast channel 34. Public [...]