Recycling Schedule for Sewaren

Ward Info: Ward no. 3
Trash: Tuesday & Friday
Recycling: Wednesday

8/7/03 - When school opens next month, there will be a new parking lot in front of Matthew Jago School in Sewaren because of a joint project between the township and the school district.  The district contributed $26,765 for the project, which included paving, materials, painting, parking blocks and base stone.  The township paid $16,062 for engineering, equipment and labor.  "By working together with the Board of Education, we were able to complete this project," said Mayor Frank G. Pelzman.  "In addition to the new parking lot at (the Jago) School, Glen Cove Avenue will be safer and less congested."  The new employee lot has 30 regular spaces and three handicapped spaces, and will improve the parking situation in front of the school.  The school had outgrown the old parking lot behind the building.  "This new lot will certainly solve the parking crunch," said Superintendent of Schools Vincent Smith.  "More of our teachers will have a place to park, and it will free up street parking for parents who are dropping off and picking up their children."
SOURCE: The Home News Tribune Local "In Brief" :: Page B3

8/2/03 - There was an accident on West Avenue around 5:25 p.m. that closed down the road for about an hour.  The accident involved an ambulance and a car.  It appears that the ambulance was on West Avenue going to an emergency and a car on Woodbridge Avenue was crossing West Avenue.  The car rammed into the side of the ambulance, causing the ambulance to go out of control.  The ambulance at one point was on two wheels and if not for the tree at the side of the road, it would have rolled over and caused damage to a home.  There are more photos in the Photographs section.  If they decide to put this in the newspaper I will include more details.

7/15/03 - The shored of the Alvin P. Williams Memorial Park recently received a spruce up.  Inmates from the New Jersey Department of Corrections cleaned up several yards of beach debris.  It was funded by the "Shore to Please" campaign, through the purchase of special license plates.  "I appreciate the cooperation of the Department of Correction in our efforts to keep our shoreline clean," said Councilman Vincent Martino.
Source: WoodbridgeWORKS Summer 2003, Volume 12 No. 2 "Section Spotlight"



5/25/03 - Woodbridge Traffic Police were repairing the traffic light that controls West and Woodbridge Avenues.  The repair took a few hours to complete.

5/21/03 - West Avenue was closed off yesterday from Woodbridge Avenue to the foot of the West Avenue bridge.  The closure was due to a down power line.  The issue was resolved a few hours later.  Traffic wanting to go down West Avenue had to take a detour through the residential area.

2/25/03 - There will be a new business in Sewaren soon.  The D'Aprile Family Caterers (photo on left) will be going where PJ's Deli once was but they do off premise catering so they will be only occupying the back of the building and there is room for one more business in the front.  We will bring you more to come with the business that will be occupying the building.

About 4 weeks into building a new home on Woodbridge Avenue (photo on right), the whole structure is up in place with windows attached and the shingles on the roof.  The lot they placed it on was subdivided to allow this two-story house to be here.  The structure is located near the corner of Woodbridge Avenue & Meade Street.

2/21/03 - An explosion at a Mobil fuel storage complex in Staten Island made Sewaren and other neighboring towns shake for miles.  The smoke stretched for about 94 miles.  The barge was at the loading dock of the Port Mobil fuel storage complex. It was unloading 4 million gallons of unleaded gasoline when it exploded at about 10:10AM.  The elementary school, Matthew Jago, was evacuated and students were brought to other schools in Woodbridge.  There was a point where the water was on fire from the gasoline; the blaze was contained by 2PM.  Photos are under the 2003 photo album

                                                                                        


Photo of the smoke as it billowed from
                                                                                   the Mobil fuel storage complex in Staten Island
 SOURCE: NASA/ORBIMAGE

1/18/03 - Residents are starting to recover from the biggest winter storm since The Blizzard of 1996.  The storm dumped 1 - 2 ft of snow through out the area, with drifts from 3 - 5 ft.  Photos are now in the new 2003 photos section.





1/15/03 - Residents will soon be able to enjoy nature and stay plugged in at the same time.  Free wireless internet service will be available to laptop users at Alvin P. Williams Park, starting in late summer.  This was the brainchild of Councilman Jim Carroll.  "People will be able to work, surf the net or e-mail in the quiet of open space," said Councilman Carroll.
Source: Section Spotlight - page 4 - WoodbridgeWORKS

1/26/03 - After 13 days of temperatures below freezing Smith's Creek has been frozen.  You will notice some of the ice is cracked that is because of the high and low tides.  The images are below.

1/13/03 - The old F. A. Sollace Residence (see photos below) has been abandoned for a few years and had back due taxes on the house.  The house was apparently bought at a sheriff's auction and was demolished due to the lack of care and they are planning to put houses up on the lot.  We will keep you up to date on what happens further.  Click the images below for a larger view.

In its "heyday"	Abandoned	Demolished

12/28/02 - PSE&G knocks down power plant stack. Before and After photos are now here.  Click on the images for a larger view.

Before	After