Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Winter wonderland

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Skate guard Vincent Fischer, 17, of East Brunswick, whizzes by during a sunny afternoon at the Middlesex County Skating Rink in Roosevelt Park in Edison on Saturday.

  • Metuchen cops volunteer to build ramp

    Effort came after local woman fell in her home BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Awonderful blessing. That is what Lillian “Penny” Butler, 82, and her daughter Alison said of their newly built wheelchair ramp at her Metuchen home. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE METUCHEN POLICE DEPARTMENT Several members of the Metuchen Policemen’s Benevolent Association Local 60…

  • Program offers intensity to skilled swimmers

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer PHOTO COURTESY OF JAY MULDOON Several members of the Metuchen YMCA Manta Ray Masters swim team competed in the two-mile St. Croix Coral Reef Swim in October. Pictured are Laura Rush (l-r), Jay Muldoon, coach of the team, Todd Shaper and Ann Mancuso. METUCHEN — With the Metuchen Branch YMCA…

  • Logistics company opens Edison office

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON — An international company recently opened a branch office in the township, making its home in a new building designed specifically with energy efficiency in mind. The firm, Hellman Worldwide Logistics (HWL), held the grand opening for its newest office in the township’s Raritan Center on Dec. 9. The…

  • PBA calls for increased manpower

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON — The Edison Policemen’s Benevolent Association (PBA) has called on the administration to hire more patrol officers in a statement released in response to the transfer of a patrolwoman to a federal task force. While PBA President Mike Schwarz said he believes the move to a Drug Enforcement Administration…

  • A picture is worth … an $85 traffic fine

    Camera system will detect cars running red lights BY BRIAN DONAHUE Staff Writer Next year, drivers who run a red light at Route 18 and Tices Lane in East Brunswick, Middlesex County, may find out later that they did not get away with it. That’s because cameras will soon be in place at the intersection,…

  • Edison council approves Hartz redevelopment agreement

    Some residents object to $1.5M contribution to twp. BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Hartz Mountain redevelopment project, which would build a massive commercial and retail space on the abandoned Ford assembly plant site, came one step closer to reality when the Edison- Township Council voted to approve the redevelopment agreement Dec. 3. “It’s been…

  • Public comments on Edison budget

    Salaries, staffing, splits are main topics of discussion BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Public discussion on Edison’s $118 million budget began during the council’s Dec. 3 meeting and went on past midnight, as residents examined and discussed everything from payroll to who does and does not count as an employee. When the time came to…

  • Edison holds tree lighting

    BY LAUREN MORTENSON Staff Writer With reindeer antlers on his head and a red light-up nose like Rudolph’s, 3- year-old Christopher Lazu sat on top of his uncle’s shoulders searching for Santa in a crowd of Edison residents. His brother Anthony, 8, and their cousin Stephen, 8, joined the rest of the guests in attendance…