Tag: Superstorm Sandy
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Old Bridge eighth grader helps make wishes of others come true
OLD BRIDGE — Year after year AJ Silvestri, an eighth grader at Carl Sandburg Middle School, sets out to essentially beat his mission of collecting as many letters for the Make-A-Wish Foundation through Macy’s Believe campaign. This year, AJ, himself a Make-A-Wish kid, collected a record number 78,257 letters. With the help of supporters including…
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Keyport Historical Society opens new museum after Sandy
KEYPORT – Kicking off the Christmas season with its annual Candlelight House Tour, the Keyport Historical Society will allow residents to visit its new museum. “Our mission is unwavering [and] to preserve the history of Keyport by collecting, restoring, archiving, displaying artifacts and documents pertaining to its rich history of farming, shipping, oystering and other…
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Raritan River Drawbridge clears environmental review
SOUTH AMBOY – A replacement for the aging Raritan River Drawbridge has cleared the federal environmental assessment process. The milestone marks a significant development in NJ Transit’s effort to make its infrastructure more resilient to extreme weather following the devastating impacts of Superstorm Sandy in 2012. On Oct. 13, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) issued…
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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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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…
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Photography exhibit to mark five-year Sandy anniversary
More than 60 photographs documenting the aftermath and recovery from superstorm Sandy will go on display at the Brookdale Community College Center for Visual Arts (CVA) Gallery on Oct. 20 as part of a new exhibit titled “91 Days; Countless Nights.” The exhibit, featuring the work of Shark River Hills-based photographer Kevin R. Burkitt, includes…
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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…
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Union Beach youngsters give back to organization that helped after superstorm Sandy
PHOTO COURTESY OF LOIS DERUPO Sam’s Club in Edison donated items while a group of kindergarteners and first graders raised $600 for victims of Hurricane Harvey in Texas. The donations went to Tzu Chi’s Harvey Relief, the organization that helped Union Beach residents after superstorm Sandy five years ago. Pictured in the back row are Tori…
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Residential units not approved for former C-Town site in South Amboy
SOUTH AMBOY – An application that would construct a three-story, 46-residential unit at 611 Bordentown Ave. failed to gain enough votes for approval from the South Amboy Planning Board. The site was home to the C-Town supermarket, which was destroyed in a fire in April 2015 and has been vacant since. C-Town opened in 2013,…