Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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MCC student dies after baseball bat attack
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — A 19-year-old Middlesex County College student, who was left in critical condition after being struck in the head with a baseball bat in Wildwood, died Monday. “We are all in shock,” said Robert Wisniewski, the college’s athletic director. It was just two weeks ago when Vincent DeSario, 19,…
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Celebrating the ‘Man of the Millennium’
Event marks anniversary of inventor’s homecoming BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Thomas Alva Edison’s great-grandson, David E. Sloane, looked up at the Edison Memorial Tower on Sunday and smiled. David E. Sloane, great-grandson of Thomas Alva Edison, speaks to the crowd Sunday during a celebration marking the 85th anniversary of Edison’s return to Menlo…
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Clara Barton library branch gets reprieve
Edison residents form committees to focus on saving operation BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The public outcry against the closing of the Clara Barton Branch of the Edison Public Library has paid off. Township officials announced last week that the facility, which was slated to close in June, would remain open at least through the…
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Police: Robbery thwarted at Edison gas station
EDISON — Police say they were able to break up a gas station heist last week as the suspect allegedly was beating the station attendant with a hammer. A customer at the Delta gas station on Route 27 called police in the early morning hours of May 11 to report a robbery in progress. Police…
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Show brings Broadway to Main St. in Metuchen
Michael Colby writes, co-produces show benefiting local synagogue BY ENID WEISS Correspondent Metuchen musical theater maven Michael Colby is at it again, only this time his work will play at home in the Forum Theatre. Last year, Colby wrote lyrics for “Meester Amerika,” a musical about Yiddish theater that won favorable reviews and audiences at…
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Edison family looks back on mother’s 104 years
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Carolina A. Sinibaldi (third from right) with her five children in 1986, when she was 80. EDISON — When Carolina A. Sinibaldi was growing up after the turn of the 20th century, roads were made of dirt and transportation was still primarily by horse. This year, Carolina reached 104 years…
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Spring Community Planting
Girl Scout troop leader Nancy Eggert and Scouts Olivia Zolnowski, Victoria Pennix and Bailey Skibar plant flowers near the Clara Barton First Aid Squad building in Edison Saturday. The Clara Barton Amboy Avenue Neighborhood Preservation Program sponsored the Spring Community Planting, helping to beautify areas of Amboy Avenue. LAUREN CASSELBERRY
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Protest staged at BP gas station in Edison
Local environmental groups react to oil spill in Gulf BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Protesters outside the BP gas station on Route 1 in Edison on May 5 show their feelings about the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf. KATHY CHANG EDISON — Area residents and environment activists staged a boycott of BP gas stations…
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The Clara Barton Amboy Avenue Neighborhood Preservation Program
Girl Scouts Bailey Skibar (l-r), Emily Todd, Mikaela Baker and Victoria Pennix plant flowers along Amboy Avenue in Edison on Saturday. The Clara Barton Amboy Avenue Neighborhood Preservation Program sponsored the Spring Community Planting, helping to beautify designated areas of Amboy Avenue. LAUREN CASSELBERRY
