Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Local Marine loses his life weeks before scheduled return home

    Helicopter crash kills Cpl. Kevin James Reinhard, former student at St. Joseph High School BY JENNIFER AMATO & KATHY CHANG Staff Writers Cpl. Kevin James Reinhard, of Colonia, was killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan last week. A local Marine was killed in Afghanistan just weeks before he was set to return home. Kevin…

  • Purse snatchings reported in Edison

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Police are investigating two recent reports of purse snatching in the township. The more recent theft occurred at 11:29 p.m. on Jan. 25. Police Lt. Sal Filannino said the victim, a 36-year-old woman, told police that she was walking home from a convenience store on Route 27 when…

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    Bamdad Rasoi shovels snow from the driveway of his Metuchen home after a few inches accumulated during central New Jersey’s first snowstorm of 2012 on Jan. 21. ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Edison charter school plan denied yet again

    State instead grants approval to schools proposed in Camden, Newark, Trenton BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The application for the Tikun Olam Hebrew Language Charter High School, which would serve students in Edison and New Brunswick, has been denied for the fourth time. The state Department of Education’s rejection of the application came as a…

  • Edison OKs controversial Dismal Swamp request

    Council seeks state approval to use protected land for access to Jehovah’s Witness center BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Environmental activists and residents came out in numbers Jan. 11 to hear the much-anticipated decision regarding a Dismal Swamp land-use battle that has spanned two decades. The Edison Township Council, having deliberated the matter in closed…

  • YMCA community honors legacy, spirit of late coach

    Metuchen woman inspired others as she coached swim team over past six years BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Gloria Liu, of the South Amboy YMCA swim team, competes in the girls 9-10 100 yard butterfly race during the Ryan Patterson Memorial Winter Classic Swim Meet. Ryan Marie Patterson was viewed by many as the heart…

  • ‘Snow day’

    Logan Ye, 5, and Charlotte Liu (r), 4, play in the snow near Bishop Ahr High School in Edison on Jan. 21. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff Paul Simoes of Inspiration Irrigation clears the driveway of a Metuchen home on Jan. 21.

  • Third suspect in holdup of Edison store turns self in

    EDISON — Police have now arrested all three suspects in the recent attempted robbery of the T-Mobile store on Parsonage Road. Police arrested the first two suspects, Michael E. Mitchell, 28, of Bristol, Pa., and Emendo E. Bowers, 24, of Somerset, immediately following the Jan. 12 holdup; the third, Mack Mitchell, 18, of Bristol, Pa.,…

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    A choir leads the crowd in song during Sunday’s celebration to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at New Hope Baptist Church in Metuchen. The event, sponsored by local civic and religious organizations, was themed “The New Birth of Dreamers — Come Dream With Us,” and concluded with a breakfast event at the…