Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Radio program focuses on veterans’ issues

    ‘Veterans NOW’ airs Saturdays at 9:30 a.m. on Seton Hall U. radio station BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Jack Fanous Sitting around a large wooden table in a small room in South Orange, Jack Fanous, Alex Manis and Joe Pace get ready to talk about veterans. The three South Brunswick natives host a weekly radio…

  • ‘Year of the Vet’ program to continue

    G.I. Go Fund seeks to help veterans return to normalcy BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer There were baseball games. They were Mets games, the men joked, but they were baseball games, a way for veterans to escape their struggles for a few hours. The G.I. Go Fund, a nonprofit organization founded in 2006 by South…

  • Gomez takes Tomaro’s place on Edison council

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Alvaro Gomez EDISON — The township has a new councilman. Alvaro Gomez, 34, who has lived in the township for 10 years and has been involved with the Edison Democratic Organization for six years, was unanimously sworn in after being appointed by the rest of the council on Jan. 31.…

  • Local dance student, 11, set for ‘Beauty and Beast’

    EDISON — Lustig Dance Theatre, in collaboration with Middlesex County College, will present Graham Lustig’s “Beauty and the Beast: A Gothic Romance” at the college’s Performing Arts Center this weekend . There will be a couple of new faces on stage on Feb. 20. Gracie McCann, an 11- year-old from Edison, and a few other…

  • Garden Show to bring spring scents to Edison

    EDISON — After a snow-covered winter, the New Jersey Flower & Garden Show, which runs Feb. 17-20, offers a fresh breath of spring, a roster of talks from experts, and good, muddy fun for kids. Some 25,000 visitors are expected at this year’s show, held at the New Jersey Convention Center, 97 Sunfield Ave. Garden…

  • Two robbed at knifepoint in parking deck outside mall

    EDISON — Police are investigating a robbery in which an unknown man reportedly threatened two women with a knife and stole their purses as they were walking to their car at the Menlo Park Mall. The incident occurred the evening of Feb. 8 in the upper parking deck of the mall, police said. The victims,…

  • Holt brings Bean bill back amid rise in vets’ suicide rate

    Army report says 145 Guard, Reserve members took own lives in 2010 BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer Sgt. Coleman Bean EAST BRUNSWICK — Rep. Rush Holt (D-12th District) is renewing efforts to pass a bill intended to strengthen treatment resources for returning soldiers. His reintroduction of the measure, which was suddenly removed from the federal…

  • Committee of the whole last seen in Edison in ’95

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — The Township Council’s recent formation of a committee of the whole is not a new concept for the township. In the early 1990s, then-members of the council formed such a committee to investigate allegations made against then-Director of Public Safety Michael J. Pocchio Sr. regarding official misconduct and…

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    Joaquin Trecartin, 5, of Tewksbury, looks on as Rachel Lugo checks out her new pet snake during the Super Pet Expo at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center on Sunfield Avenue Feb. 12. SCOTT FRIEDMAN