About 1,000 more people who did not think a quick and effective evacuation would be imaginable on the occasion of a primary fuel explosion crowded into about 250 cars on Sunday, February 25, 1973, and blocked the streets of Woodbridge for more than an hour.
Protesters in the procession, sponsored through the Sewaren Civic Association, passed through Sewaren, Port Reading and other Woodbridge spaces, opposing the PES request.
Here’s a look at events that occurred in central Jersey five, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago this week.
February 21, 2018: Reported that academics from several of Central Jersey’s top schools were making plans to participate in “Enough: National School Walkout” on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, which would be held across the United States, marking the anniversary. month of the shooting death of 17 schoolchildren and adults in one of the best schools in Parkland. in Florida.
Feb. 21: St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick will hold a rite of dedication of its new center, the Simulation Center for Interprofessional Learning, on Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2018, it was learned.
Feb. 21: Reports that Middlesex High School senior Jeff Johnson broke the district’s wrestling tournament winning record, surpassing 150 in his career en route to winning the District 14 name at 145 pounds.
Feb. 23: Starting the following week, Monroe Township police officers on leave of absence would provide full-time coverage to supplement security groups at the district’s 8 schools, he reported.
February 24: The Lumzy Sisters led the Heart 2 Heart gospel at Mt. Calvary, New Brunswick, raising the budget for the structure of a communion corridor on the church grounds.
Feb. 25: Nearly 500 parents, students, public servants and others gathered at East Brunswick High School for Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: #NeverAgain Vigil, committed to the victims of the shooting in Parkland, Florida.
Feb. 26: Reported that the state Department of Transportation had allocated $30. 5 million to fund highway improvement projects in Middlesex, Somerset and Union counties.
February 22 – Comedian Ron White at the State Theatre in New Brunswick.
Feb. 22: The seventh-seeded Piscataway High School women’s basketball team defeated seeded J. F. Kennedy, 43-41, for its eleventh county championship and fourth in five seasons.
Feb. 26: Gov. Chris Christie’s $32. 9 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year resulted in a speech at a joint Legislative Assembly consultation, marking a 4. 8 percent increase.
February 20, 1998: Laurence Babish of Bridgewater sentenced to 30 years in prison for hitting his wife Carol, 52, with health problems, in January 1997 in the head with a ball hammer.
Feb. 22: Helen Dombrowski, 63, and her husband of nearly 40 years, Hank, 76, were reportedly revered as the first recipients of the Father Hudson Award at St. Elizabeth’s School’s Center for Hope Hospice Charity Ball. in Tilo.
February 24: Cammi Granato, who captained the U. S. women’s hockey team. The U. S. Navy who won the Olympic gold medal last week, spoke to many AT employees.
Feb. 24: VooDUDES and Crescent City Maulers held a Mardi Gras birthday party at Old Bay Restaurant in New Brunswick.
Feb. 25: Gas and heating oil costs hit a 12-year low in New Jersey due to a winter combined with favorable economic and political forces.
February 26: Bridgewater-Raritan High School men’s basketball defeated Franklin, 60-39, in the Somerset County Tournament Championship at Bridgewater Middle School.
Feb. 26: About 75 other people gathered at noon outdoors at the Sperry Observatory at Union County College in Cranford to watch a partial solar eclipse of 20%.
February 21, 1973: By a vote of 3 to 2, the Plainfield School Board Estimate recommends $478,951 relief on the Board of Education’s $9,778,951 tax claim.
February 22: Governor Wlliam T. Cahill vetoed a Senate bill that would have named “I’m from New Jersey” as the state anthem.
Feb. 23: The state Supreme Court has suspended attorney Henry M. Spritzer, a former Franklin Township Municipal Court judge who was most recently a school board member, practices law pending an ethics investigation.
Feb. 24: The Rutgers men’s basketball team defeated St. Francis College, 100-87, its 14th victory opposite defeat.
February 25: Ballet Allegresse, organized in September 1973 through the Hunterdon Center for the Performing Arts, makes its public debut at North Hunterdon Regional High School in Clinton.
February 26: John J. Kenny, former Hudson County landowner and former president of the county Democratic organization, convicted of extortion and misconduct in office.
February 21: Jane Gibson of New Brunswick fired her twelve-gauge two-barreled shotgun at someone seeking to steal her mule.
February 22: The North Plainfield High School basketball team defeated Plainfield High School, 49-24, to win the basketball championship and cup.
Feb. 24: An inheritance of approximately $200,000 was left through Banking and Insurance Commissioner William E. Tuttle of Westfield. Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield would get $25,000 from his brother, Arthur D. Tuttle, he said.
February 25: “Lorna Doone,” starring Madge Bellamy, debuts at Reade’s Strand Theatre in Perth Amboy.
Feb. 25: He reported that the New Brunswick District Attorney’s Office has asked police in each and every town in New Jersey to cooperate in the search for Jeanette Breazeale, a nursing student at Middlesex Hospital, who disappeared on Wednesday, February 21, 1923.
Brad Wadlow is a member of MyCentralJersey. com