Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Police searching for thieves

    EDISON — Edison police are searching for a pair of jewelry thieves who made off with a caseload of diamond rings at the Menlo Park Mall on Sept. 16. According to Lt. Joseph Shannon, Edison Police public information officer, the first suspect was described by witnesses as a black man about 5 feet 11 inches…

  • State: No plea deals for teenage drivers

    Following a key recommendation of the Teen Drivers Study Commission, New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram last week directed municipal prosecutors not to offer or accept plea bargains to teenage drivers with graduated drivers licenses (GDL) for motor vehicle violations that carry points. According to a press release from Milgram’s office, the directive is aimed…

  • Television is going digital: Get the picture

    Big changes are coming to your TV. But they have nothing to do with the new fall season. These changes involve the transition to digital broadcasting on February 17, 2009. For millions of Americans — those whose TVs are already hooked up to cable or satellite or those who have TVs with built-in digital tuners…

  • Edison Memorial Tower Corp. gets $375K

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON — Middlesex County threw its support behind the extensive revitalization and repair efforts for the Edison Memorial Tower last week through a $370,000 grant, paid for through the county Open Space Trust Fund. While the money from the grant will be valuable to the restoration efforts, it also allows…

  • Stephen’s Law: Wheelchairs must be secured in vehicles

    Stephen Griscti, of No. Bruns., is inspiration for legislation BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Stephen Griscti NORTH BRUNSWICK — Stephen Griscti, 40, a township resident, was born with tuberous sclerosis, a condition that at its worst causes seizures, mental retardation and manifests itself in tumors on major organs. This chromosomal developmental disability has left Stephen…

  • Losing sleep in honor of lost lives

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent ENID WEISS At a 24-hour vigil in memory of POWs and MIAs at Memorial Park in Metuchen, held Sept. 19-20, Vietnam veterans erected a replica of a bamboo cage in which Vietnamese troops imprisoned U.S. soldiers. METUCHEN — At 6 a.m. Saturday morning on Sept. 20, four men were sitting under…

  • Council sings ‘Happy B’day’ to centenarian

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent The Sept. 15 meeting of the Metuchen Borough Council ended on a cheerful note — the council members ceded to Mayor Thomas Vahalla’s request to join in a rousing rendition of “Happy Birthday” to William “Bill” Byrnes in honor of his 100th birthday on Sept. 24. Fourteen members of his family…

  • Walking for a cure

    Clockwise from top: Cindy DeSarno (third from left) leads a group of walkers at the annual Vasculitis Walk in Roosevelt Park in Edison on Saturday. Edison Mayor Jun Choi expresses his sentiments to De- Sarno about her son, Anthony, who died in March 2005 at the age of 17 from Wegener’s granulomatosis. Grace Wells, 8,…

  • Photo

    JEFF GRANIT staff St. Francis Cathedral School in Metuchen celebrated its 80th anniversary with tours of the school and classrooms Friday. New additions to the science lab and computer lab were among the attractions. A photo board with pictures from each decade was also on display. Story, page 10.