Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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MCC renames tech hall for late Billy Johnson
Betty Wold Johnson says son ‘would have loved this’ BY KATHY CHANG Betty Wold Johnson (l-r) speaks with Middlesex County College Board of Trustees Vice Chairman Thomas Tighe, board President Joann La Perla-Morales and Secretary Hank Bauer before the Sept. 23 ceremony. EDISON — Willard T.C. Johnson, commonly known as Billy, may have been just…
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Edison council authorizes affordable housing funds
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Although much remains up in the air regarding the state Council on Affordable Housing, the Township Council has moved forward with a resolution to bank 39 units for its third-round requirements. “This is our good-faith effort in continuing with [abiding] by the COAH regulations,” council Vice President Robert…
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Edison council seeks say in website content
Council tables vote on video streaming contract BY KATHY CHANG EDISON — The Township Council is seeking to have a say over the video content that is shown on the municipality’s website. At present, all programming is overseen by Mayor Antonia Ricigliano’s administration, without council involvement. Now council members are seeking to get involved after…
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Hands of Hope
Arturo Martinez of North Plainfield, Lian Cancryn of Plainfield and Jaiminee Patel of Piscataway, seniors at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School, North Edison, carry bags and boxes of food from the school for delivery to Hands of Hope. The school delivered three carloads of food collected to help those affected by Hurricane Irene. RUDY BRANDL
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MCC professor pens book of poetry
Emanuel di Pasquale EDISON — Emanuel di Pasquale, assistant professor of English and poet-inresidence at Middlesex County College, recently published a new work of poetry. “Harvest” consists of 41 poems that look at nature, the connection between men and women, and basic human passions. It has both a New Jersey and a Jersey Shore focus…
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Edison police investigate gas station robberies
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Police are investigating two gas station robberies that took place on consecutive days last week and may be connected. The first robbery occurred at 5:20 a.m. on Sept. 24 at the Raceway Gas station on Route 1 south. The attendant, a 59-year-old Edison resident, told police that an…
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Irate over Irene
Local officials, residents air frustrations with JCP&L during BPU meeting BY CHRIS ZAWISTOWSKI When it came to Jersey Central Power & Light Co.’s response to Hurricane Irene at a Sept. 26 Board of Public Utilities meeting, the same types of words kept coming up: Unacceptable. Terrible. A joke. State legislators, municipal officials and residents from…
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Metuchen police report series of vehicular break-ins, thefts
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — Police are warning residents to lock their car doors after a recent rash of burglaries and thefts. Two motor vehicles were broken into on Rose Street. A small Coach bag was taken from an unlocked 2004 Hyundai around 2:36 a.m. on Sept. 26. Police were on regular patrol…
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Fire inspectors investigate the site of a vacant retail building that was destroyed during a four-alarm fire at Woodbridge Avenue and Thomasine Street, Edison, on Sept. 20. JEFF GRANIT staff
