Tag: Hurricane Irene

  • Sayreville family finds new home, years after Sandy struck

    Sayreville family finds new home, years after Sandy struck

    SAYREVILLE — The Filannino family called it “the compound” where they lived on Weber Avenue in Sayreville. “My in-laws were next to us on MacArthur Avenue and my brother-in-law lived up the street on Weber Avenue,” Sal Filannino, a lieutenant with the Edison Police Department, said. Five years after superstorm Sandy, the compound is no…

  • Sayreville approves project to stabilize MacArthur, Weber neighborhoods

    Sayreville approves project to stabilize MacArthur, Weber neighborhoods

    SAYREVILLE – Officials in Sayreville have approved the first phase of a project intended to restore and stabilize two borough neighborhoods that were damaged by tropical storms. At an Aug. 21 meeting, the Borough Council passed a resolution approving the first phase of the Rutgers Cooperative Extension’s (RCE) restoration implementation plan for restoring Weber and…

  • Sayreville seeks to restore storm-damaged neighborhoods

    Sayreville seeks to restore storm-damaged neighborhoods

    SAYREVILLE – Rutgers University and the Sayreville Environmental Commission are creating an implementation strategy to restore and stabilize two borough neighborhoods damaged by tropical storms. Jeremiah Bergstrom, a landscape architect with the Rutgers Cooperative Extension (RCE), presented the plan for restoring Weber and MacArthur avenues to the Borough Council at a June 26 meeting. The two…