Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Holiday shoppers urged to take better care of their belongings

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — It is certainly common for women to put their purses on the hook inside a bathroom stall. It’s also common for the purses to be snatched from those places. At least one such incident has been reported at the Menlo Park Mall to start the holiday shopping season.…

  • Holiday parade highlighted by numerous musical acts

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent More than 2,000 people enjoyed Sunday’s balmy weather as they walked in or watched Metuchen’s holiday parade. ENID WEISS Two of the many that attended Metuchen’s Winter Festival Parade on Nov. 29. Sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce, the parade also managed to collect canned goods to restock local food pantries.…

  • Edison resident sees barriers — one felled, another standing

    Local woman sees Berlin Wall, China’s Great Wall during company event BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall came down, uniting West and East Germany as one. Two decades later, Edison resident Nancy Goldberg got an upclose and personal look at things as she participated in an international summit hosted by…

  • Vaticano leaves his post as Board of Ed. member

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Carmelo Vaticano resigned from his position as a member of the Board of Education due to what has been termed as “a shift in job responsibilities.” Vaticano, who was up for re-election next April, originally gained a seat on the board in 2007. Police Chief Thomas Bryan said that departmental…

  • P.D. to step up patrols at Menlo Park Mall

    Annual substation returns to assist shoppers, prevent crime EDISON — With Black Friday coming up this week, the Edison Police Department has once again opened up its substation at the Menlo Park Mall in an effort to deter criminal activity and help shoppers with any issues they may have. This is the 16th year in…

  • People are in good hands with new Allstate branch

    Tano Mall location recently opened BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — Ted Tenzlinger has had his hand in many business ventures over the years. For a while, he was in the financial services industry and also owned a few check-cashing services in Middlesex and Somerset counties. But he always kept a close eye on…

  • Solar-powered ticket machines installed at Edison train station

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — Formerly, if a person wanted to buy a ticket to ride on the Edison Light Transit System, it meant buying a ticket off-site at one of two local stores. That has now changed, thanks to two new solarpowered automated ticketdispensing machines that have been installed on either side…

  • Edison enters into partnership, opens new recycling center

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Edison Township opened a new recycling center on Meadow Road that is now available to residents seven days a week, 12 hours a day. EDISON — On the heels of receiving an award from the state Department of Environmental Protection, Edison Township has opened a new recycling…