Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Crabiel, 78, devoted life to public service

    Longtime freeholder director dies weeks after re-election BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer Middlesex County has lost a long-standing and perhaps its most prominent public servant. David B. Crabiel Freeholder Director David B. Crabiel died Monday after being rushed to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick that morning. He was 78 years old.…

  • Edison Twp. budget hearings start today

    Public to weigh in on $118 million spending plan BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Edison Township Council agreed to delay public hearings on the $118 million budget at the suggestion of Business Administrator Anthony Cancro, who said they wanted time to account for how Gov. Jon Corzine’s proposal to let municipalities reduce payments on…

  • ‘Fowl!’

    Above: Samantha Reilly, 8, of Edison, focuses on the basket with the encouragement of John Spiess, special events coordinator, during the “Fowl” Shooting Contest sponsored by the Edison Recreation Department on Nov. 22. Proceeds of the event will benefit area food banks. Right: Anish Chouthai, 8, hopes his shot will win the tiebreaker against David…

  • 176 turkeys donated at food drive

    Various community groups pitch in for charity effort BY LAUREN MORTENSON Staff Writer Though the weather was frightful, the turkeys were delightful, as St. Francis Cathedral Social Concerns and the Community Food Bank of New Jersey received 176 donated turkeys during the annual Thanksgiving Food Drive in Metuchen on Saturday, Nov. 22. The food and…

  • Metuchen backs Dismal Swamp Commission plan

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent METUCHEN — The Borough Council, on Nov. 17, became the first municipality to endorse the Dismal Swamp Preservation Act aiming to preserve ecological, historical and recreational value of the Dismal Swamp and would establish a regional Dismal Swamp Conservation Commission. The commission is part of legislation introduced by Assemblyman Peter J.…

  • Detectives show how crimes get solved

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Much like in the hit show CSI: Crime Scene Investigations when a crime happens in Edison, the scene is analyzed, evidence is collected and, ideally, a picture of what happened eventually emerges. According to Detective Lisa Katana, a 14-year veteran of the force, this is where the resemblance ends. “We…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Latisha Jeffrey, of North Brunswick, in her role of “the wife” watches Ryan Hanna (l), of Piscataway, as “the husband,” and Mark Suarez, of New Brunswick, as “the bandit,” fight over her during the performance warm-up of “Rashomon” at the Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center in Edison on Thursday.

  • Police arrest suspect in Hess robberies

    Two month investigation leads to Fords man’s arrest BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Edison police have arrested a man suspected of being responsible for a pair of armed robberies at the Hess gas station on Amboy Avenue. On Nov. 20 around 9 p.m., Edison DetectiveAlan Sciarrillo, Detective Sean Forker and Detective Sgt. Richard Buck arrested…

  • $57 million referendum set for Dec. 9

    Bond intended to fund new school constriction BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Edison School District is gearing up for a Dec. 9 referendum that, if approved by the voters, would build a new elementary school and greatly expand four already existing ones. A resolution passed by the district’s Board of Education during its regular…