Category: Sentinel-EBS News
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Week without power deals losses to Milltown shops
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Floodwaters rise in the area of the Milltown Rescue Squad building on Washington Avenue. LINDA DORMI MILLTOWN — Things are slowly getting back to normal for local businesses and residents after power was finally restored nearly a week after Hurricane Irene. Borough officials along with High Energy Corp. worked feverishly…
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Historic Spotswood church tries to recover after Irene
Walls, furniture and food for weekly soup kitchen among items destroyed in flood BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI Staff Writer Above left: A large garbage bin sits in the cemetery of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Sept. 1. Floodwaters carried it from a business across the street during Hurricane Irene. Above right: Water is pumped through a…
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Jamesburg rebuilding after Hurricane Irene
Buckelew mansion, several businesses suffer severe damages BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer A water pipe remains exposed after part of the Buckelew mansion porch collapsed and other areas of the historic home were damaged in Hurricane Irene. JEFF GRANIT staff JAMESBURG — Water that flooded parts of the borough’s downtown during Hurricane Irene had receded…
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Hurricane Irene
Homeowner Peter Odato checks out a fallen tree that brought down utility lines outside his house on Riva Avenue in East Brunswick during Hurricane Irene Aug. 28. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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Irene’s aftermath
Jamesburg police Sgt. Louis Hornberger (clockwise from top left) stands amid floodwaters rushing from Lake Manalapan onto Buckelew Avenue in Jamesburg on Sunday. A large tree uprooted part of a sidewalk and took down utility lines while falling across Pearl Road in East Brunswick during the hurricane. Floodwaters on Devoe Avenue in Spotswood reached record…
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Surging waters flood downtown Jamesburg
Mayor: Community’s efforts staved off injury, loss of life during Hurricane Irene BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Severe flooding from Hurricane Irene has caused major damage to about 60 homes and businesses in Jamesburg. Mayor Anthony LaMantia said that although the water had subsided early this week, many families still cannot return to their homes…
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Zimmerli to exhibit works of two Venetian masters
Above: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo’s “Old Man with Turban” is among the etchings included in the “Two Venetian Masters” exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum. Below: “View of a Town on a River Bank,” from 1744. New Brunswick — The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers will evoke the brio at the heart of 18th-century Venetian art…
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Floodwaters wreak havoc in Monroe during Irene
Numerous residents evacuated, placed in emergency shelters BY CHRISTINA HABERSTROH Staff Writer Members of Monroe Township Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 help a woman out of a boat after an evacuation on Grabowski Court in Helmetta on Aug. 28. JEFF GRANIT staff Floodwaters resulting from Hurricane Irene were so severe that officials said the township…
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