• Adopt-A-Family accepting donations

    The South River Primary/Elementary School PTA is sponsoring its annual Adopt- A-Family program, designed to make the holiday season more joyous for disadvantaged children in South River. New clothing, new toys, food and monetary donations to purchase new items are sought. Checks should be made payable to Adopt-A-Family. In past years the program has assisted…

  • Monroe facility serves as lifeline during outage

    Seniors with electronic medical devices put up overnight, fed at Senior Center BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer MONROE — For many of the millions of New Jersey residents who were without power after Hurricane Sandy, the situation amounted to a frustrating inconvenience. For seniors and others who rely on electronic medical devices, losing power can…

  • South River DPW went above and beyond

    My parents have lived in South River for over 80 years, and their entire basement was flooded during Hurricane Sandy. Until their power was restored, we couldn’t even begin to clean anything out, and so this past Sunday, Nov. 4, we started a massive cleanup. We were working hard in the basement when the borough…

  • CODA

    We couldn’t imagine such destruction — now we can GREG BEAN The electric power to our neighborhood in East Brunswick, near the Milltown border, went off at around 10 p.m. Oct. 29, a few hours after Sandy made landfall on the Jersey Shore. It was a long, dark night with plenty of big wind, but…

  • Local communities assessing damage

    Many residents still in the dark BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Winds from Hurricane Sandy uprooted a large tree and sent it through the center of a house on Woodland Road in Jamesburg on Oct. 29. JAMES McEVOY While many residents have struggled amid the outages and others have experienced damage to their homes from…

  • Middlesex County muddles through Sandy’s mayhem

    It will be a long road to recovery for those in hardest-hit communities BY JESSICA D’AMICO Staff Writer While progress certainly can be seen as residents throughout Middlesex County continue efforts to pick up the pieces after a walloping by Hurricane Sandy, as in other areas of the state, the process of getting back to…

  • Milltown fares well in wake of Sandy

    Mayor lauds generosity of citizens who stepped up to help communities hit hard by storm BY JAMES McEVOY Staff Writer Volunteers man the Milltown Senior Center, which became a drop-off point for supplies being sent to the Perth Amboy One Stop Community Center to help those who suffered losses during Hurricane Sandy. SCOTT FRIEDMAN MILLTOWN…

  • So. River begins rebuilding after Sandy’s devastation

    Borough endured massive flooding that impacted hundreds of homes BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH RIVER — Some 241 structures in the borough flooded during Hurricane Sandy last week, when some areas took on 8 to 10 feet of water. Borough Office of Emergency Management Director Charles Benn reported that figure at the Nov. 5 Borough…

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