Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Veteran Edison cop gets one year probation for lying

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — A former Edison police officer was sentenced to a year of probation for lying to investigators about a company that he’d been working for as a security officer on a part-time basis. Adam Tietchen, 64, who was a 29-year veteran of the Edison police force, pleaded guilty on…

  • IRS: Check withholding to avoid a tax surprise

    With 2009 nearly half over, the Internal Revenue Service reminds New Jerseyans that there is no better time to check their 2009 federal income tax withholding levels to make sure they do not face any surprises when returns are due next spring. The Making Work Pay Credit lowered tax-withholding rates this year for 120 million…

  • Poisoning may be at center of jeweler’s death

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Apossible chemical spill at Aabhushan Family Jewelers has killed the store’s owner. STEVEN M. BARON Police investigate the death of the owner of Aabhushan Family Jewelers who was found at his place of business, located at 155 Wood Ave. on June 15. The death may have been due to cyanide…

  • Residents sing praises of ‘Senior Idol’

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer About 200 people filled the gymnasium of the Woodbridge Community Center for the first-ever “Woodbridge Township Senior Idol.” “I have been watching the ‘American Idol’ show on television, and I saw that a ‘Woodbridge Idol’ has been held for the high school students for the past few years,” said resident…

  • THE MORAL OF THE STORY – Advertorial

    By Gloria Averbuch Advertorial  THE MORAL OF THE STORY By Gloria Averbuch  Athletes and coaches have a lot to offer us. I learned this last night as I sat among the crowd at a Sky Blue FC game and listened to Head Coach Kelly Lindsey give what was billed as a coach’s "chalk talk." This…

  • Edison H.S. teacher, coach charged with sexual assault

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — A math teacher at Edison High School was arrested last week and charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student at the school. Anthony Iazzetta, 26, who resides in the Fords section of Woodbridge, was arrested at his home and was charged with one count of sexual assault…

  • Koperwhats drops out of mayoral race

    EDISON — Because of what he calls “personal reasons,” Republican mayoral candidate Ray Koperwhats has dropped out of the November general election. Koperwhats was expected to be the prime opposition to Democrat Antonia Ricigliano following her upset victory over Mayor Jun Choi earlier this month. “This really was an unforeseen thing that happened,” said Sylvia…

  • Suspect leads police on three-town chase

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — An early-morning bank robbery at the Skylands Bank on Middlesex Avenue last week spurred a police chase spanning three towns. Jermaine N. Dawkins, 37, of Staten Island, N.Y., was arrested and charged with robbery of an undisclosed amount about a half-hour after he allegedly robbed the bank on…

  • Edison employees facing furloughs, wage freezes

    Mayor says township is facing large budget gap BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — As many as 75 municipal employeeswill face layoffs by the middle of next month if their unions do not agree to 12-day furloughs and wage freezes. “Layoffs will be a last resort, and so we hope that the unions will…