Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Wal-Mart to open in Edison
BY LAUREN MORTENSON Correspondent The grand opening of the Vineyard Square Wal-Mart on Route 27 in Edison will take place Nov. 12 at 7 a.m., and the national anthem will be sung to begin the ceremony. The 141,029-square-foot store initially faced a lot of opposition when it was first approved by the Planning Board in…
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Crash kills one on Rt. 27
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Police reported that a fatal car crash occurred on Route 27 in Edison on Nov. 6. According to Lt. Joseph Shannon, Edison police public information officer, 80- year-old township resident Donald Davis was driving a 2003 four-door Pontiac on Route 27 northbound at approximately 6:26 a.m. When Davis reached the…
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Jewel thieves hit mall
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Police have reported that an armed robbery took place at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison on Nov. 4 that resulted in the loss of an unknown amount of jewelry. Lt. Joseph Shannon, police public information officer, said that three men, described by witnesses as black, approximately 5 feet 9…
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Scale catches fire
BY ENID WEISS Correspondent No one was injured when a bathroom scale in the St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral rectory caught on fire Nov. 5. “We heard the fire trucks,” said Kim Paltz, a fourth-grader at the St. Francis Cathedral School, 528 Main St. in Metuchen. “I heard the fire trucks from my classroom and…
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The smallest and their struggle for survival
November is Premature Awareness Month BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer Not every baby born prematurely is as lucky as Millstone’s Hannah Siegel. JEFF GRANIT staff Matthew Siegel holds his daughter, Hannah, 2, as she reaches out for her mother Cheryl Ann’s hand in the family’s Millstone home. The Siegel family is sharing Hannah’s birth story,…
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City: Commuter ferry to arrive in mid-2009
Commuters eagerly await service to Manhattan BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent SOUTH AMBOY — Area commuters will have to wait until next summer to see the return of ferry service to New York. “We’re looking at June/July of ’09,” said Stan Marcinczyk, the city’s redevelopment consultant. The road leading to the ferry terminal and the parking…
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I, Robotics Team
J.P. Stevens H.S. robotics team preps for competition BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Click Here to Read Story
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JEFF GRANIT staff The J.P. Stevens High School girls volleyball team celebrates their straight set win over East Brunswick High School in the Greater Middlesex Conference Tournament on Oct. 30.
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Edison Township kicks off food drive
Food banks anticipate increased demand this year BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Edison is teaming up with local religious organizations in a food drive to replenish the stocks of relief programs that serve people in need in the township. The effort is being organized in order to meet the anticipated demand in the upcoming holiday…
