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Tracking Outages, Burglaries in Sandy's Wake Top Stories

Election results and surviving the nor'easter also among the top stories.

Tracking the restoration of electrical service in Watchung and in Green Brook was this week's top story, as readers followed developments through the week. Relying on crowd-sourcing rather than utility company reports painted a much different picture of the lack of improvement than was widely reported.  

Other top stories this week include:

Five Things You Need to Know Today

Monday's updates for residents, as well as Tuesday's, provided useful information for readers during this difficult week. 

Find out what's happening in Watchung-Green Brookwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Burglars 'Smash and Grab' During Sandy Outages

14 Route 22 businesses were found to have been broken into during the night of Nov. 2.

This was an historic election in more than one way, with some area contests still not settled.

Find out what's happening in Watchung-Green Brookwith free, real-time updates from Patch.

Surviving the Coming 'Snow'easter' Without Power

A new storm struck New Jersey with cold temperature, high winds and snow as thousands were still without electricity, water or heat.


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