Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Contamination concerns overshadow application

    Owner of sports facility seeks to subdivide property BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — The cleanup of the former Kemco Corp. site on Inman Avenue weighed heavily on the minds of officials during an Oct. 17 Planning Board hearing on a minor subdivision proposed for the property. However, Scotch Plains-based attorney Brian Schwartz, who…

  • Basketball standout shares life lesson with EHS classes

    Former Seton Hall forward, sidetracked by injuries, stresses importance of studying BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Marcus Toney-El stands with Veronica Harris, a health and physical education teacher at Edison High School, who invited Toney-El to speak to the students. EDISON — In an effort to encourage more students to enter a four-year college, officials…

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    Joe Zipp, 17, of South Plainfield, catches some air at the skateboard park in the Edison Municipal Center on Oct. 22. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Voters will decide control of Twp. Council

    Ten candidates seeking five seats in Edison BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Residents will head to the polls on Nov. 8 to select from among 10 candidates running for five seats on the seven-member Edison Township Council. Four of the available seats are four-year terms while one is a two-year unexpired term. The Democratic ticket…

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    Stephanie Horvacz waits for her turn as students from the Mother Seton Regional High School Chapter of the GlamourGals Foundation perform makeovers, facials and manicures for residents of the Skilled Nursing Center at Brighton Gardens, Edison, on Oct. 14. GlamourGals is a nonprofit organization that inspires and organizes teens to provide ongoing companionship and complimentary…

  • All invited to don costumes for Metuchen’s Halloween parade

    Oct. 30 parade will kick off at 3 p.m. at senior center BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent A lackluster pumpkin crop this year has had an unlikely consequence in Metuchen — a Halloween parade. Recreation Director Nancy Goldberg said that because the borough couldn’t be guaranteed to have enough pumpkins on hand (about 200) for the…

  • Nov. 3 hearing to address plan to develop piece of Visco tract

    Decades-long battle continues over plan that activists say will harm Dismal Swamp ecology BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer A court-mandated public hearing will be held Nov. 3 regarding an amendment to Edison’s Recreation Open Space Inventory (ROSI) to the state Department Environmental Protection’s Green Acres Program. The proposed ROSI amendment development is part of the…

  • Arrests made in separate Metuchen bank incidents

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — Police made three arrests in two separate attempted bank thefts earlier this month. Police arrested and charged Tara A. Davila, 32, of Bronx, N.Y., for criminal attempt of theft and forgery from the TD Bank on Middlesex Avenue around 5:39 p.m. Oct. 12. She was also charged with…

  • Ticked-off driver hits station attendant in Edison

    EDISON— Police are investigating a robbery that occurred at the Raceway gas station on Route 27 last week. The incident occurred around 7:46 p.m. on Oct. 17, police said. The victim told police an unknown male, described as heavyset and possibly Indian, in a two-door black compact car began complaining that he was next in…