Tag: Federal Emergency Management Agency
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Middlesex County Regional Vaccine Mega-site will administer last first-dose vaccines on June 26
EDISON – After six months of operation and issuing more than 300,000 vaccines, the Middlesex County Regional COVID-19 Vaccine Mega-site in Edison will shut down. Operated by RWJBarnabas Health, the Army National Guard, Office of Emergency Management (OEM), the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and Middlesex County, the mega-site will administer its final round of…
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Metuchen’s proposed 2020 municipal budget is ‘lean and mean’
METUCHEN – When Melissa Perilstein began her role as borough administrator in March, a proposed 2020 municipal budget was already set to be introduced at a council meeting. Then the novel coronavirus pandemic hit and the proposed municipal budget was revised twice since. “We were able to take about $94,000 out of the appropriation side,”…
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Project expected to stabilize streambank on Pleasant Valley Road
MARLBORO – The Marlboro Township Council has introduced an ordinance that would, if adopted, appropriate a $420,236 grant for a Pleasant Valley streambank project. Council members introduced the ordinance on July 11 and set Aug. 15 as the date for a public hearing on the proposal. The grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)…
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Sayreville receives funding for sewage plant six years after Sandy
SAYREVILLE – The Middlesex County Utilities Authority (MCUA) has received a $1 million federal grant to assist with repairs to a sewage treatment plant in Sayreville that was damaged during superstorm Sandy. The $1 million in funding, provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) through an aid package, was announced by Congressman Frank Pallone…
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Sayreville receives federal funding to repair treatment plant damaged in 2012
The Middlesex County Utilities Authority (MCUA) will receive more than $1 million in federal funding to provide bypass pumping for the Sayreville sewage treatment plant damaged as a result of superstorm Sandy in 2012. The funding is being provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) via the Sandy aid package Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr.…
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Sandy’s economic impact softens
For the most part, the state of New Jersey has “bounced back” from superstorm Sandy on an economic level, according to Dr. James Hughes and Marc Pfeiffer, of the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University. However, there are exceptions which pertain to individual homeowners or unforeseen circumstances, the professors…
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Multiple upgrades underway at Old Bridge schools
OLD BRIDGE — In order for the Old Bridge School District to provide the best possible education to its students, Schools Superintendent David Cittadino said it is vital to update the district’s facilities, making them school climate-minded and environmentally responsible with a focus on safety. The district is undergoing a series of renovations totaling more…
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Business Brief
Thomas Herrington of Monroe has been appointed as the first associate director of the Monmouth University Urban Coast Institute (UCI). Prior to joining the UCI, Herrington served as the director of the ocean engineering graduate program at the Stevens Institute of Technology from 2007-17 and the director of the New Jersey Coastal Protection Technical Assistance…
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More flood-prone properties will become open space in South River
SOUTH RIVER – The Borough of South River will receive more than $4 million to increase its open space properties due to the destruction of superstorm Sandy. The borough will receive $4,151,057 from the N.J. Department of Environmental Protection Blue Acres Buyout Program, according to a joint statement released by U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and…
