Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Historians shed light on site of 1777 battle

    Artifacts found on Edison land being nominated for national registry BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Local historians hope to have 297 acres of Edison land with ties to the Revolutionary War added to the National Register of Historical Places. Above, a member of the historic preservation and cultural resource service firm John Milner Associates holds…

  • Edison code enforcement official sues township

    Alleges wrongdoing by administrator, engineer BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer AEdison employee has filed a lawsuit against two township officials, claiming that they have created a hostile work environment for her over the past year. Lisa LaRue, who has served as construction official for Edison since November 2009, filed the complaint on Oct. 29 through…

  • First-year cheer squad competing for nat’l title

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent METUCHEN — For 19 local girls, this week’s trip to Walt Disney World in Florida is no ordinary vacation. The girls, all members of the Metuchen Pop Warner Junior Pee Wee cheerleading squad, will be competing for a national championship. The girls earned their spot in the competition with a second-place…

  • Edison man pleads guilty to role in shooting death

    An Edison man and alleged member of the Nine Trey Headbustas set of the Bloods street gang has pleaded guilty to racketeering for his role in a gangrelated murder in New Brunswick in 2008. Davon Parker, 22, pleaded guilty Nov. 19 to first-degree racketeering before state Superior Court Judge Kevin G. Callahan in Hudson County.…

  • Suspect arrested in shooting death of Edison man, 25

    EDISON — A township man was arrested on Nov. 25 and charged with fatally shooting a 25-year-old man in the victim’s Casey Avenue apartment. Luis Padilla, 27, was charged with murder and possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose in the death of Kevin Meisnest two days earlier on Nov. 23, according to an…

  • Metuchen police charge man with theft by deception

    METUCHEN — Police have charged a 66-year-old Florida man in connection with a scam that occurred in June. Johnny Mitchell, who police said turned himself in on Nov. 17, was charged with theft by deception. Police said that on June 24 an elderly man was scammed out of $2,800 in the parking lot of a…

  • Solar farm viewed as boost to economy, environment

    With 8,500 ground-mounted panels, Silver Lake facility is part of PSE&G’s Solar 4 All program BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer PSE&G’s Al Matos kept the promise that he made back in July. He vowed that before the end of this year, some 8,500 solar panels would be installed to cover 5.7 acres of PSE&G’s Silver…

  • Filmmaker tells story of the other ‘Rosies’

    Film focuses on women who helped win World War II, usher in the computer age BY SAM SLAUGHTER Staff Writer Secret government ballistics projects to help eradicate the Nazis and women who functioned as human computers for the U.S. Army. These may sound like plot points to a science fiction movie, but during World War…

  • Museum celebrates water as art world inspiration

    Water is the subject and title of a far-reaching exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, this fall. Ranging from a 17th-century Chinese landscape to Bill Viola’s 2005 visceral video work, “Ablutions,” works on display are drawn from the museum’s own collections of French, American, Russian and SovietNonconformist art,…