Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Poor communication, infrastructure and equipment problems after storm among primary complaints to utility company president, BPU.
If there was one thing the state Board of Public Utilities, JCP&L's president Don Lynch, officials and the public agreed upon Monday night, it was the severity of the storm named Sandy that howled through the state on Oct. 29, not only lashing the shore but bringing power outages that lasted two weeks or more to parts of central and northern New Jersey. But nearly all of the dozens of officials and residents from the inland counties of Somerset, Morris, Passaic and Sussex who spoke at a public input meeting held by the BPU in Basking Ridge, refused to let Jersey Central Power & Light off the hook anyway. "For us, in Bernards Township, for the first seven days after the storm, virtually nothing happened," said township Deputy Mayor Carolyn …
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Ridge varsity ice hockey wraps up third season win at game that also is benefit for Operation Santa Jersey Shore.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Friday night was a winning proposition for the Ridge High School ice hockey team on all fronts _ not only did the benefit game bring in a haul of toys for Operation Santa Jersey Shore, but the boys skated their way to a 3-2 victory over perennial rival Bridgewater-Raritan. The toys, collected in lieu of regular admission, will be delivered to Operation Santa, according to information from the team. The team had opened the season with a 3-2 win against longtime Skylands Conference rival Montgomery in a game last Saturday night, according to the team's website. Then, on Tuesday, Ridge beat Brick Memorial 7 to 2 to up the season record to 2-0. But Bridgewater-Raritan is always a team to beat. The hard-fighting teams were tied twice on Friday'…
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Bernardsville woman continues efforts to bring hand-packed food to those who are still struggling after storm in Staten Island.
It may be well over a month since Sandy brought storm surges and howling winds to this region, but you might not know that looking at parts of Staten Island, N.Y. "Many parts of Staten Island look like the storm hit only days ago, not weeks ago," said Cathy Fersini-Campitiello of Bernardsville, who has been transporting hand-packed bagged lunches to her former home borough since after Thanksgiving in late November. "The food is still greatly needed," she said this week, after continuing to extend the time she has been delivering lunches to spots where Sandy victims are displaced or homeless. As such, she still is looking for people to donate lunches that she can take to Staten Island, where her husband travels for his job. Fersini-…
Updated: Meeting with Board of Public Utilities now scheduled for 4 to 7 p.m. next Monday at the William Annin Middle School.
The president of Jersey Central Power & Light and members of the Board of Public Utilities will appear in Bernards Township at a public meeting next Monday to discuss the utility's response to Superstorm Sandy, Township Committee Member John Malay said Tuesday night. The state Board of Public Utilities issued a notice that the meeting to meeting to solicit public comment on JCP&L's preparedness and responsiveness before, during and after Hurricane Sandy will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. at the auditorium in the William Annin Middle School, 70 Quincy Road, Basking Ridge. The notice said additional hearings would be scheduled in December and later in 2013. Later that night, Township Committee and Board of Education representatives are due to …
Friday, November 30, 2012
Necessary forms available on Bernards Township website.
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Friday, November 30, 2012
Somerset County property owners who suffered “material damage” as a direct result of Superstorm Sandy may qualify for a reduction of property assessment for 2013. Normally, all properties are valued in the condition in which they existed on October 1 of the pretax year, or as of October 1, 2012 for the upcoming 2013 tax year. However, there is an exception to this law, which applies when a property suffers “material damage” such as a major fire or other significant damage after October 1 of 2012 and before January 1 of 2013. In such circumstances, property owners would be required to notify the tax assessor of their town in writing, prior to January 10 of 2013, in order to receive an assessment adjustment. Those seeking information can …
Girls came up with design on their own.
Sisters Emily and Molly McEntee, students at St. James School in Basking Ridge have designed colorful t-shirts to raise money and help those affected by Super Storm Sandy to rebuild their lives, homes and businesses along the New Jersey Shore. Emily, 12, and Molly, 9, came up with the idea on their own, and their mother, Heather, put up one of the designs on Facebook, said Rod Hirsch, the girls' grandfather. That brought a suggestion from a friend that the designs might be put on t-shirts. The two girls live in Dunellen. Molly attends the fourth grade and Emily is a sixth grader at St. James, Hirsch said. Hirsch is founder of Operation Shoebox New Jersey, a non-profit corporation based in Hillsborough that works with volunteers to send …
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Staten Island, N.Y. native bringing food to her home borough for those still left homeless or struggling after storm.
Cathy Fersini-Campitiello, a Bernardsville resident and Staten Island native, still is seeking local volunteers to help her pack 20 bagged lunches to contribute toward those she has been delivering on a daily basis to residents in her home borough whose homes and lives were "devastated" by Sandy. Fersini-Campitiello, whose husband works in Staten Island, has been delivering lunches along with moral support since the beginning of the week. "The devastation is sickening," she said of the people she had visited. "It is a humbling sight. They were so appreciative of the food we brought today and are in need of so much more," she said on Tuesday. Fersini-Campitiello had reached out to friends in the Somerset Hills before this week to ask for …
Somerset County residents can visit any of western state Disaster Recovery Centers.
As of this week, hours at offices in western New Jersey staffed by FEMA and New Jersey Office of Emergency Management staff are being reduced, and will be open on a rotating basis, according to an announcement from Somerset County. The Disaster Recovery Center office previously open in Somerset County is closed this week, to reopen on Monday, Dec. 3 for three days next week, according to the county. However, in an effort to continue serving Sandy disaster survivors, residents may visit any of the nine offices, including an office open Wednesday in Morris Plains. As of this week, all DRC services will be available on a rotating basis for a period of three days at a time in each of the fixed center locations already identified by the state. …
Pill Hill center hours will shorten as township makes more room.
A growing pile of storm debris and wood chips at Bernards Township's Pill Hill Recycling center has filled the facility to capacity, requiring a cutback in hours while the township seeks to rid itself of the pile, township officials said on Tuesday night. Just last weekend, there were about 1,000 trips into the center on Pill Hill Road by residents or contractors who are supposed to be transporting materials for township residents, Township Administrator Bruce McArthur told the Township Committee on Tuesday night. "There's just no more room for those materials," McArthur said. "An amazing amount of trees came down" during the Sandy storm at the end of October, and Bernards Township has asked residents to bring such wood and vegetative …
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Most of April vacation will remain intact unless further snow days are called.
The five make-up days for time out of school because of Superstorm Sandy have been selected by the Board of Education and posted on the school website. The extra days on which school will be in session — previously set as holidays on the school calendar — are the Martin Luther King holiday on Jan. 21; Thursday and Friday, Feb. 21 and 22, the last two days of the February weeklong vacation; Friday, April 26, the last day of the weeklong April vacation; and Friday, May 24, the first day of a scheduled long Memorial Day weekend. The school board's consensus is "to preserve more of April break while still having days available if needed for additional snow days," said Board President Susan McGowan. The only change from the proposal on the …
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3:44 pm on Wednesday, January 9, 2013
I agree with you. I trimmed my trees and so did my neighbors. we didn't have any lines down on our street. JCP&L came out the day after the storm and pulled our blade switch at the main phase so they could get the main phase back up. They didn't come back for 10 days to simply push our blade switch back up. That switch could have been pulled closer to the lines that were down over 2 miles up … more ›