Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • ‘Hazzard’ alert

    Visitors to Cruise Night check out a 1969 Dodge Charger, painted to look like “The Dukes of Hazzard’s” General Lee, outside The Home Depot on Route 1 June 30. The Edison Light Cruisers sponsor the classic cars weekly on Thursday evenings. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Retired teacher keeps harvest going at Edison school

    Top: A volunteer stands with the cabbage collected during the annual harvest at Martin Luther King Elementary School’s garden on July 14. Above: Retired secondgrade teacher Louise Lippe hands Abijith Manikandan, 8, a large head of cabbage during the harvest of the garden, which is located in the back of the school. EDISON — She…

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    Samantha Floersch, 2, enjoys a break from the heat during a trip to the Metuchen Municipal Pool, Lake Avenue, on Saturday. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • India Parade permit battle lands in court

    IBA alleges that Edison officials may have acted in conflict of interest BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer I n the continual feud over who will run the annual India Day parade, the Indian Business Association (IBA) on July 5 filed a nine-count civil complaint against the Oak Tree Business Association, as well as a host…

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    Joe Rydarowski cools off with son Joseph, 1, in the kiddie pool section of the Metuchen Municipal Pool, Lake Avenue, on July 9. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Ex-sheriff’s investigator latest to be charged in bribery scheme

    Spicuzzo and a sheriff’s officer were arrested in March A former Middlesex County sheriff’s investigator was arrested July 7 on charges that he assisted former Sheriff Joseph C. Spicuzzo in collecting a bribe from a person seeking a job in the sheriff’s office. Darrin P. DiBiasi, 43, of Monmouth Junction, surrendered to detectives of the…

  • Metuchen superintendent to announce retirement

    Citizens group calls for public presence at meeting BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Metuchen Superintendent of Schools Terri Sinatra will soon announce her plans to retire at year’s end. “The rumors are correct,” she told the Sentinel on Friday. She said she has not officially informed the Board of Education of her retirement, but that the…

  • Edison native takes part in international rescues

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Brian Gillingham, standing far left, stands with members of his Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue Team, Fairfax Task Force I, during their rescue efforts in Port au Prince, Haiti, where they were stationed for 10 days after the catastrophic earthquake in 2010. Gillingham, who is a 1997 Edison High…

  • Edison set to install solar panels on town hall roof

    Project being funded with federal energy grant BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — The municipal building is going solar. The Township Council recently voted to award a $630,000 contract to Fai-Gon Electric Inc., Piscataway, for the design and construction of a flat-roof-mounted solar electric system for the 44,000-square-foot municipal building. “It is Edison’s largest…