Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Gas station robberies now may be captured on camera

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Surveillance cameras are now required to be implemented at all 24- hour service gas stations and convenience stores in the township. The Township Council on May 26 unanimously voted in favor of the ordinance mandating the cameras. The implementation of the ordinance is in response to a rash…

  • Split board approves more cuts, privatizing in Edison schools

    BY KATHY CHANG EDISON — Frustration was on the faces of seemingly everyone June 1 as a divided Board of Education made another round of sweeping cuts to its school budget for next year. The board approved a list of cuts that included privatizing the district’s 137 paraprofessional and teacher aide positions, and cut 11…

  • Metuchen Ed. Foundation grants teacher’s wish

    $12,000 award will purchase interactive whiteboards for Edgar Middle School BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — The Metuchen Education Foundation Inc. (MEF) allows teachers in the Metuchen Public School District to dream. That is how Roseann Misrahi, computer teacher at Edgar Middle School, described at the May 25 Board of Education meeting what the…

  • Annual Paws in the Park Dog Walk

    Maya Eisen, 9, and Aaron Eisen, 11, take their dogs, (l) Saucee and Coco, down the path during the first annual Paws in the Park Dog Walk at Lake Papianni Park in Edison on May 22. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • More bias graffiti found in park

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — A week after bias graffiti was found on playground equipment at John Marshall Elementary School, more bias drawings and words were found on a wooden picnic bench at Frankel Park on Old Post Road, police said. The bias graffiti on the bench is estimated to have been done…

  • Wrong to equate Clara Barton, N. Edison libraries

    Iam happy that the Edison municipal council is keeping the Clara Barton library open with a special $100,000 reallocation. As an avid reader, I will gladly pay a little extra in taxes to support public libraries. However, as I watch the meetings on TV and read the letters in the newspapers, I am dismayed by…

  • Oscar winner brings film to Metuchen

    METUCHEN — The Raconteur is screening 2010 Oscar-winning director Roger Ross Williams’ “Music by Prudence” this Saturday. The screening will be held at 8 p.m. at the Refectory, adjacent to the First Presbyterian Church, 270 Woodbridge Ave. Admission is $20 and tickets can be purchased at The Raconteur on Main Street or online at http://musicbyprudence.eventbrite.com.…

  • Suicide prevention bill a tribute to local veteran

    Holt says government failed Army sergeant from East Brunswick BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer After two combat tours in Iraq, Coleman Bean of East Brunswick sought treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but he did not receive the support that is in place for many returning veterans. Sgt. Coleman Bean Bean was a member of…