Tag: Superstorm Sandy
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10 years after Sandy, are we safer from flooding?
By Tom Gilbert Nearly everyone who lived in New Jersey 10 years ago has vivid, and possibly traumatic, memories of Superstorm Sandy slamming this state we’re in. Thirty-eight lives were lost. More than 300,000 homes were either completely destroyed or so badly damaged as to be uninhabitable. About 2.7 million people were left without power,…
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Sauickie introduces storm-related bill package ahead of Sandy anniversary
Hurricane Ian’s recent path of destruction in Florida is reminiscent of Superstorm Sandy’s devastating impact on New Jersey in October 2012, said state Assemblyman Alex Sauickie of Jackson, who is introducing a storm-related bill package in advance of the 10th anniversary of the state’s worst natural disaster. The three bills would help Garden State residents…
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Sayreville BOE honors food services district satellite manager set to retire after 25 years
SAYREVILLE – After 25 years in the Sayreville School District, the food services district satellite manager is retiring from her position. In August, the Board of Education honored the retirement of Karen Sullivan as the district satellite manager. Her retirement will become effective on Jan. 1, 2023. Sullivan has worked in the district for 25…
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Metuchen enters shared service with Rutgers University for police dispatch
METUCHEN – For Police Chief Arthur Flaherty, a single seat police dispatch was essentially “a bad situation” waiting to happen. “We have evolved from a town of 12,800 to a town of 17,000 right now,” he said. “We are putting in 240 more condos and a 30-acre park. We are going to be near [a…
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Community partnership brings forth garden along MacArthur Avenue
SAYREVILLE – It’s been nearly 10 years since Superstorm Sandy decimated the community along MacArthur Avenue in Sayreville, destroying homes and displacing families. Some of the homes have been repaired, and others have been replaced, while others remain gone. And on a vacant piece of land, vacant courtesy of that storm, a new community garden…
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Crumbling Cheesequake Creek jetty receives $30 million in federal boost for rebuild
OLD BRIDGE – Construction to rebuild the crumbling stone rock Cheesequake Creek jetty, which services marinas in Old Bridge, Sayreville and South Amboy, is expected to begin in Fiscal Year 2024. That is when Joseph Seebode, deputy district engineer and chief of programs and project management for the New York District of the U.S. Army…
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Authority will receive federal funding to make Sandy-related repairs
U.S. Senators Bob Menendez and Cory Booker (both D-NJ) announced that the Bayshore Regional Sewerage Authority (BRSA) has been awarded $10.9 million in federal funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to make repairs after floods from Superstorm Sandy damaged the electrical distribution switchgear. Sandy struck New Jersey in late October 2012. The BRSA, which…
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Old Bridge officials expected to consider parking fees in response to high demand for beachfront area
OLD BRIDGE – Township officials are considering implementing parking fees and residential parking permits as the demand of the beachfront area in the Laurence Harbor section of the township continues to rise. “For the last couple of years we had to employ additional resources at our beachfront because of the popularity of people coming to…
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South River house is 700th Blue Acres purchase
SOUTH RIVER – The N.J. Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Blue Acres residential buyout program has reached a milestone with the completion of its 700th purchase, a house in South River. Located on Henry Street, the acquisition required a short sale accommodation, a situation that arises among about 15 percent of residents in the buyout…