Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Metuchen BOE welcomes new superintendent

    Vincent Caputo’s education career spans more than two decades BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Vincent Caputo, who was appointed to take over as new superintendent of the Metuchen school district, is welcomed by Board of Education President Eileen Frowenfeld. A new superintendent of schools will soon be at the district helm. Vincent Caputo was unanimously approved…

  • Edison’s furloughed workers back to work after funds transfer OK’d

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Local families brought their kids and dogs for holiday pictures during the Santa Paws event in Edison. J.P. Stevens High School students who are members of J.P. Stevens for Animal Welfare (JPawS) organized the event in support of homeless animals at the Edison Animal Shelter. The 60 municipal employees who…

  • Road Show returns to Edison

    A collector with the Ohio Valley Refinery & Road Show checks out jewelry items during a recent event. The Springfield, Ill.-based company holds more than 70 shows each year. EDISON — The Ohio Valley Refinery & Road Show is back in town this week, looking to buy precious metals, jewelry, historical artifacts, antiques and other…

  • Firefighters in training

    The Den 2 Tigers from Cub Scout Pack 12 enjoy a tour of the Raritan Engine Company, No. 1, firehouse in Edison in November.

  • Winter Fall Festival comes to Edison Dec. 10

    The Clara Barton Business Alliance will hold a Winter Fall Festival on Dec. 10 from 2 to 6 p.m. along Amboy Avenue. The festival will include live entertainment, local dancing schools, the Herbert Hoover Middle School Choir, a scavenger hunt, photos with Santa, reading with princesses Belle, Cinderella and Snow White, arts and craft vendors,…

  • Employees return to work in Edison

    By Kathy Chang EDISON — The 60 municipal employees who were furloughed Dec. 6 have returned to work. The Township Council met with Mayor Antonia Ricigliano, Business Administrator Maureen Ruane and Acting Chief Financial Officer Larry Pollex for a closed-session meeting Dec. 8 that lasted for an hour and a half. After returning to open…

  • Photo

    The confectionary kitchen of the Sklans’ home, with decor inspired by candy stores and ice cream parlors, was among the stops on the Dec. 4 Holiday House Tour in Metuchen. The Metuchen Borough Improvement League organized the tour, which benefited the historic Old Franklin School on Middlesex Avenue. CLAIRE SHEPROW

  • Edisonmayor: Furloughs needed due to inaction

    Ricigliano, council at odds over fund transfer BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Mayor Antonia Ricigliano announced Monday that several township departments would be furloughed due to an inability to meet payroll. Ricigliano said seven departments face an indefinite period of unpaid time off, effective Dec. 6. She said the furloughs would be lifted once the…

  • Police in Edison, Metuchen report two bank robberies

    Bank robberies took place in both Edison and Metuchen on Dec. 1. Police in Metuchen responded to the TD Bank on Middlesex Avenue around 9:36 a.m. The bank teller told police that an unknown man handed the teller a note requesting all the money, Police Cpl. David Liantonio said. He fled the bank with an…