Sunday, December 9, 2012
This Squire Street resident was diagnosed with stomach cancer a month after Hurricane Irene flooded her home. Sandy did the same thing just as she was getting ready to return.
Carmen Logue gets chemotherapy regularly. She has stomach cancer, and when asked she will tell you that she doesn’t think she’ll be alive in five years. “I’m scared. I’m hopeful, but I’m scared because of how many treatments that I’ve been on,” she said. “After awhile they kind of run out of chemos. I have the lord, so I’m not worried. If I die I get to be with him.” Logue was diagnosed with stomach cancer in the fall of 2011, a month after Hurricane Irene flooded her Squire Street home. It’s her second bout with cancer. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2002, but had been clear for several years before her recent diagnosis. On disability due to nerve damage she says she got from the original treatments, Logue’s world was turned …
Tuesday, June 26, 2012
In Monroe, 12 homes that were damaged by the same storm that devastated Squire Street were purchased through the township's Open Space Trust Fund.
While residents on Squire Street wait for word on whether or not Middlesex County will purchase their flood-damaged homes through the Green Acres Program, for others the wait is over. According to a story to be released on Monday in the Monroe Township News, Monroe Township used money from its Open Space Trust fund to buy 12 homes that were damaged during Hurricane Irene. The township has since requested reimbursment from FEMA. The Monroe News is a publication written and published by Monroe Township. “We wanted to help these residents as quickly as possible, and after weighing our options we looked into using Open Space funds to purchase homes that were deemed unsafe, but only to those who were willing,” Monroe Business Administrator …
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Almost a year after Hurricane Irene destroyed their homes, some residents are still hopeful that someone will buy them out.
It’s been almost a year, and some of the residents of Squire Street are still waiting. Hours after Hurricane Irene hit the area in August, a storm surge came in and water from the nearby Matchaponix flooded the first floors and basements of nearly every house on the small dead-end street. Homes were ruined, possessions were destroyed, and porches, sheds, and businesses in the area were devastated. Several weeks later, the mold and mildew came, and with the summer heat some residents left to live with family and friends. Underneath the destruction was an underlying feeling of defeat. Residents told the East Brunswick Patch that they didn’t want to rebuild, that if they could, they would sell their homes to the township, to the state, or to …
Friday, November 4, 2011
Residents who saw their homes devastated by Hurricane Irene are turning to the Blue Acres program for help.
Squire Street residents say they will apply for state funds to help deal with the fall out of Hurricane Irene, even if the Township Council decided not to help them. The residents, whose homes remain largely uninhabitable after being flooded by Hurricane Irene in August, had asked the Township Council to purchase their homes, then make an application to the Department of Environmental Protection Blue Acres program to be reimbursed. After being told no, the residents have decided to make the application on their own. “The thing that we wanted them to do was buy the homes,” said Squire Street resident Susan Gomolka. “Because they could purchase the homes in two months, but with Blue Acres it could take a year or two...I don’t understand why …
Patty
12:09 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Yes please do. Thank you Denise more ›