Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Edison cops to get heavy shields

    Edison PD to have ballistic shields with 33 officers BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Click Here for Video in HD The Edison Police Department unveiled the newest tool in its crime-fighting arsenal on Nov. 13 as officers demonstrated their recently acquired ballistic shields at the Stelton Community Center. JEFF GRANIT staff Edison police officers approach…

  • Green group to hold biweekly protests

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Members and supporters of the Edison Wetlands Association, a local environmental group, held a public demonstration in front of the Basell USA chemical plant on Meadow Road to protest the seepage of toxic chemicals into the nearby Raritan River. Bob Spiegel, of the Edison Wetlands Association, addresses the crowd at…

  • Democrats clash on Mayor Choi’s impact

    Party leader upbraids current Democratic mayor BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Dr. Tom Paterniti, chairman of the local Democratic Party, which is called the Edison Democratic Organization, and a former Mayor of Edison, released a statement publicly lambasting Mayor Jun Choi, another Democrat, for what he said are the mayor’s failures at enacting positive reforms…

  • Street dedicated to WWII veteran

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Aleck Dutka, retired Edison police officer and World War II veteran, almost never talked about the war, said his son Alexander. Edison Township dedicated a street to Aleck Dutka, a retired Edison police officer and World War II veteran, on Nov. 11, Veterans Day. Yes, there were the memorials and…

  • Hess gas station sees second robbery in two months

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Police are searching for information about an armed robbery that took place on Saturday, Nov. 8, at the Hess gas station on Amboy Avenue in Edison. According to Lt. Joseph Shannon, police public information officer, around 3:10 in the morning, the 26-year-old gas station attendant was leaving the convenience store…

  • Cops seize 350 lbs. of marijuana

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Edison police seized about 350 pounds of marijuana, valued at $1.5 million, shipped to an Edison warehouse from Cincinnati, Ohio, resulting in the arrests of two men on Nov. 8. According to a statement released by the police department, detectives acted on information from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and…

  • Metuchen gets grant to repave Grove Ave.

    BY LAUREN MORTENSON Staff Writer On Friday, Nov. 15, Gov. Jon S. Corzine held a press conference at Borough Hall in Metuchen alongside Mayor Tom Vahalla, Sen. Barbara Buono, Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri and Assemblyman Pat Diegnan to announce that Metuchen will receive $218,000 in municipal aid grants for road improvements on Grove Avenue, Phase…

  • Emmy-winning makeup artist

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Sally Beckwith gets a touch-up around her eyes during the cosmetics demonstration by Karen DuPiche, two-time Emmy-winning makeup artist, at Whispering Knolls Assisted Living community in Edison on Friday.

  • Designer Greetings finds home in Edison

    Firm one of largest greeting card companies in U.S. BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Designer Greetings, one of the largest greeting card companies in the country, recently moved its world headquarters from Staten Island, N.Y., to Edison Township in order to fulfill its everincreasing need for additional space. The firm celebrated its move to its…