
has become a Red Cross Shelter, Business Administrator Theresa Sierchio said.
"We are truly going to be a shelter" after the purchase of a $75,000 generator, Sierchio said, "to the point where we could teach classes in there if we had no electricity."
The building's old generator was moved to position where it could power the administration building in an emergency.
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In 2011, , opening it for showers and distributing bottled water and food as Hurricane Irene battered the borough.
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