Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Police use checkpoints for DWI enforcement
Program to run through end of prom and graduation season As high school celebrations get under way this spring, municipal and county law enforcement officers will be setting up driving-whileintoxicated checkpoints designed to ensure the safety of teenagers and others on the roads. The checkpoint program, financed with a $29,975 grant from the state Office…
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Residents get a look at new FEMA maps
Digital documents show fewer buildings are in flood plain BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer DAN NEWMAN Local officials look at some of FEMA’s new digital maps that were on display at the Dunellen Senior Center on April 16. The maps should be adopted and go into effect by April 2010. DUNELLEN — Residents of Middlesex…
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ERIC SUCAR staff Cameron Clapp, a triple amputee, speaks with patients at Hanger Prosthetics and Orthotics in Edison on April 14. In 2001, Clapp lost both of his legs and right arm in an accident involving a train. He now wears two prosthetic limbs and shares his story of hope and survival with those trying…
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Council agrees to redecorate boro hall walls
BY ENID WEISS Correspondent Metuchen’s borough hall is going to get a new look: its walls will be used to display work by local artists. Council members informally agreed on April 13 to allow the borough’s cultural arts commission to appoint a subcommittee to act as director and advisers operating an art gallery in the…
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Ricigliano challenge to Choi nets tax returns
Mayoral hopefuls go face to face; Choi’s position now full time BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer After Edison Democratic mayoral candidate Antonia Ricigliano took it upon herself to distribute copies of her 2007 and 2008 tax returns to assembled media members last Wednesday in front of town hall, she then went inside and challenged her…
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Kaylie Shook, 3, of Metuchen, finds some Easter eggs hidden in the nursery school classroom during the Holy Treasure Hunt at Community Presbyterian Church in Edison on April 11.
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Edison’s PBA says division has been dismantled
BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer The head of Edison’s Police Benevolent Association wants answers to why the local police department has dismantled its Traffic Enforcement Division. According to a press release issued by Michael Schwarz, president of Edison PBA Local 75, the unit has dwindled from 12 to two, a statistic that Edison Police Director…
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Pro-, anti-Choi advocates bump heads again
Letter circulated around Edison, saying mayor is bullying people BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer In response to a recently distributed letter denouncing the candidacy of incumbent Mayor Jun Choi, his campaign spokesman has fired back, saying that his opposition is running “a campaign intended to bully residents out of running for Edison Democratic Committee seats.”…
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Hungarian refugee tells tale of fleeing his country
Many came to our area during the 1956 Hungarian Revolution BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Zoltan Horvath was only 15 years old in 1956 when he found himself with his parents at Camp Kilmer, a World War II-era U.S. Army post that welcomed about 35,000 Hungarian refugees who had fled their country during the 1956…
