Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Cherry Blossoms

    N.J. Cherry Blossom Princess Amanda Ussak of Edison meets Japanese Cherry Blossom Queen Kanako Ohno, and Michael Passante, counsel for banking and finance with the office of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in Washington, D.C. Ussak, a 2006 graduate of Edison High School, was selected by the New Jersey State Society based on her academic achievements,…

  • Numerous budget cuts on table in Metuchen

    Officials seek ways of closing deficit BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Officials are scrambling for ways to make up roughly $372,000 that Metuchen has lost in state aid for the 2010 municipal budget. Mayor Thomas Vahalla said the cut in aid is a blow to the borough’s approximately 13,500 residents. “This does not even include…

  • Edison official promotes underground tank removal

    EDISON — Council President Charles Tomaro is kicking off a “Dig This Campaign” to persuade homeowners to dig up and remove underground fuel tanks from their properties. There is $70 million in state grants available to New Jersey homeowners to pay for the excavation and removal of potentially hazardous underground storage tanks, Tomaro said. “Burying…

  • Man gets trespassing charges after chase

    METUCHEN — Police arrested a 52- year-old Edison man on charges of peering and defiant trespassing at a McCoy Avenue residence last week. William L. Pittman, who, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections website, was charged with similar offenses in the past and spent four years in jail for escaping from police custody…

  • Survivor’s visit commemorates Holocaust Remembrance Day

    EDISON — Students saw a bit of history come to life when they received a visit recently from a Holocaust survivor. Erwin M. Ganz, the grandfather of freshmanNoahGanz, detailed his experiences as a survivor of Nazi Germany during an assemblywithMiddle and Upper School students at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in North Edison on April 15. Ganz’s…

  • Squad member turns family tragedy into positive for EMTs

    When Ian Lewis’ wife Melissa died suddenly on March 15, his world came to a halt. “I felt like someone ripped my heart and lungs out,” Lewis wrote shortly after her death. “I have never in my life been so unable to function.” Ian and Melissa Lewis, both volunteer EMTs for a number of years…

  • Ex-lawyer gets probation for theft

    Aformer attorney has been placed on probation for five years for stealing $12,500 from an Edison law firm where he had worked as an associate, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced. Charles Epstein, 55, of Ventnor City, also was ordered to repay $11,050 during a hearing on April 12 at the Middlesex County Courthouse…

  • For the children

    J.P. Stevens High School juniors Angeli Ylanan-Agarwala (l-r), Brooke Nacht and Kyle O’Grady cross a footbridge during the March to Feed walkathon sponsored by Opal Kale and Caitlin Toto, J.P. Stevens juniors, at Roosevelt Park, Edison, on April 18. The walk raised over $700 to send food to impoverished children in Africa. The students partnered…

  • Edison voters shoot down school tab, incumbents

    BY KATHY CHANG EDISON — Residents came to the polls Tuesday to reject both the Board of Education’s $204.8 million budget and the incumbents who sought re-election. Acting Superintendent of Schools John DiMuzio said he had no comment after the final numbers were tallied up. “I just have to digest all this,” he said. DiMuzio…