Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Auditor details school district’s performance

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent The Metuchen school board received a favorable report from its auditor regarding its fiscal year ending June 30, 2009, at the Board of Education’s Nov. 24 meeting. The report found “no discrepancies or exceptions” in the board’s accounting, reporting and financial records charting its $35 million in total revenues, according to…

  • Many come out to remember a leader

    Lee Mathews, Edison Job Corps Academy director, succumbs to cancer at age 57 BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff The Edison Job Corps Academy held a memorial service for their former director Lee Mathews, who passed away on Nov. 29. More photos at www.gmnews.com. JEFF GRANIT staff EDISON…

  • Bishop Ahr girls swim coach arrested on sex assault charges

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — The head coach of the girls swim team at Bishop Ahr High School was arrested and charged on Dec. 2 with sexual assault, criminal sexual contact and endangering the welfare of a child. Sarah Blessing, 27, has also been a fifthgrade teacher at Park Middle School in Scotch…

  • Police investigating electronics theft

    METUCHEN — Police are looking for the suspect or suspects who broke into a business on Oliver Street twice in four days last week and stole thousands of dollars worth of equipment. The most recent incident took place between 4 a.m. and 7:26 a.m. Dec. 1, police said. A Dell computer valued at $4,800, eight…

  • Cleanup ongoing at auto dealership

    The following is notification of the environmental investigation and cleanup that is taking place at Volvo of Edison (formerly Raritan Oil Co.), 401 Route 1 south, Edison, block 235-A, lots 25, 26,27,28,29, and 63-J, block 239-A, lot 1-M. NJDEP preferred identification No. 002512: In accordance with New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) regulations for…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff Kindergartners prepare to head on stage to perform in a Thanksgiving pageant at St. Francis Cathedral School in Metuchen on Nov. 24. More photos on page 6 and at www.gmnews.com.

  • Third home invasion in 3 months occurs in Metuchen

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Metuchen police are looking for a suspect or suspects who used the rear door to enter a Clinton Avenue residence while the residents were at home sleeping. The incident occurred between 10 p.m. Nov. 17 and 6:30 a.m. Nov. 18, police said. The victims told police that when they woke…

  • Karabinchak takes vacant council seat

    Former council member takes over for Griffin-Ussak BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Former Edison Township Council member Robert Karabinchak, who previously served an unexpired term, was reappointed at last week’s meeting to take the place of Councilwoman AnnMarie Griffin-Ussak, who resigned a few weeks ago. Karabinchak, who was on the finance committee the last time…

  • ‘Tis the season for toys

    Top: Matawan’s Doug Kaufman plays with his train set during Greenberg’s Train and Toy Show held at the New Jersey Expo Center in Edison on Nov. 29. Right: Anthony Confalone, 3, Bridgewater, stops to look at a large stack of trains during the show. Above: Freehold Township’s Larry Picciano looks over items for sale.