Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Sammy’s Hope Edison Animal Shelter

    by Cathy Kang If you are looking to add a four-footed friend to your family, consider adopting a shelter pet. The Edison Animal Shelter currently has many adoptable dogs and cats in need of homes. The shelter is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and until 7:30 p.m. onWednesdays, and 10 a.m. to…

  • Hands up activity

    Left: Edison police Sgt. Robert Dudash uses a fake gun during a demonstration of a felony motor vehicle stop at the Junior Police Academy Aug. 2 at Woodrow Wilson Middle School. Above: The weeklong Junior Police Academy introduced the youth of Edison to the inner workings of the township police department. PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT…

  • Law firm mourns loss of partner

    Morris Brown, a partner in the law firm of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer and a volunteer in the local community, diedAug. 9 at New York- Presbyterian Hospital. The Woodbridge-based firm announced Brown’s passing in a press release, saying it was deeply saddened by the loss. A renowned personal injury lawyer for 55 years, Brown joined…

  • Volunteer group drives adoptions at Edison shelter

    Sammy’s Hope began working with municipal facility last year BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Sammy’s Hope volunteers Naomi Milner (l-r), Christine Young and Darren Young wash pit bull mix Mimi at the Edison Animal Shelter Aug. 10. PHOTOS By ERIC SUCAR staff EDISON — In less than two years, the nonprofit organization Sammy’s Hope has…

  • Greatest of the Garden contest at EARTH Center

    The EARTH Center, home to Rutgers Cooperative Extension of Middlesex County, will host its Garden Field Day and open house 1-5 p.m. Aug. 20 (rain date, Aug. 21). The event will take place at the EARTH Center, 42 RivaAve. in Davidson’s Mill Pond Park, South Brunswick, and is the EARTH Center’s biggest event of the…

  • Man struck crossing street in Metuchen

    METUCHEN — A76-year-old borough man is recovering from injuries after being struck by a motor vehicle as he was attempting to cross the street. The incident occurred at 5:16 p.m. on Aug. 5 at the lighted crosswalk at the intersection of Main Street and Highland Avenue, police said. Jaroslaw Malinowski was in the middle of…

  • police beat 

    All items in Police Beat are taken from police department records. All suspects are presumed innocent until found guilty in court. METUCHEN  A burglary was reported at a Ross Street residence. Between 11:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Aug. 9, an unknown suspect or suspects pushed in a window air-conditioning unit, entered the home and…

  • Hair today, gone tomorrow

    Nine-year-old donates 10 inches of hair for cancer patients BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Ricardo Garces cut 10 inches of his hair to donate to Pantene Beautiful Lengths for a wig for cancer patients. NORTH BRUNSWICK — Most 7- year-olds focus only on soccer or karate. Instead, Ricardo Garces had something else on his mind…

  • ’Tis better to give

    Members of the Edison Township Education Association came together Dec. 12 at the Pines Manor in Edison for “An Evening of Giving,” a holiday party and philanthropic effort to support those affected by Sandy.