Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • International films at Metuchen Library

    The Metuchen Public Library will begin its annual summer foreign film series, the Edna Newby International Film Festival, on Monday, July 14, with the Russian film “The Italian.” The festival will continue for the next five weeks. Each film will be shown twice, at 2 and 7:30 p.m., on the indicated date. Admission is free…

  • Scammers target Edison seniors, rob one of $40K

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – Con men targeted Edison senior citizens in two separate incidents, according to police. One victim was able to figure out what was going on and chased the suspect out of her house, but the other lost a safe with $40,000 in it. According to Lt. Joseph Shannon, Edison…

  • Choi expects ‘difficult choices’ amid state aid cut

    Edison firefighters cite already low resources, ask not to be targeted BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – In the wake of anticipated slashes in state municipal aid from Trenton, as well as overall economic hardships throughout the country, Edison Mayor Jun Choi said that he expects the township will need to make some difficult…

  • Group encourages public transport use

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent METUCHEN – The best way to counter the soaring price of gasoline is to increase mass transportation use, said Megan Pearce, N.J. Public Interest Research Group (NJPIRG) grassroots coordinator. Metuchen Mayor Thomas Vahalla joined Pearce and other supporters at the Metuchen train station June 25 to call attention to rising gas…

  • Boro woman killed by train

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – A 66-year-old borough woman was fatally struck by an Amtrak train as it passed through the borough on June 26 in what police say appears to be a suicide. The incident occurred around 8:15 a.m., police said. Police said the woman walked down from the platform and made…

  • Edison’s Channel 15 receives media award

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The township’s public cable access station, Channel 15, was recognized for excellence by the Alliance for Community Media, receiving the Overall Excellence in Government Access from the Hometown Video Awards, the largest video cable awards program in the nation, on June 24. “We’re very grateful for this honor.…

  • Man accused of peeping on women in bathroom

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer A 19-year-old Avenel man was arrested on June 23 for allegedly videotaping a female student as she used the women’s bathroom in the Main Hall at Middlesex County College in Edison. The investigation is still ongoing into whether Adrian Vasquez videotaped other female students that same day (June 23) as…

  • County jailhouse rocks high school diploma exam

    N.B. resident among those honored with GED certificate BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NORTH BRUNSWICK – Eleven inmates from the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center successfully passed their General Educational Development (GED) tests after having taken courses at the jail for the past three months. Jeffrey Binns, Jose Diez, Terrance Edwards, Marshall Erickson, Daquan Jackson,…

  • Locks of Love helps kids’ love for locks

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Olivia Idrissi, 12, donates her hair to Locks of Love which makes wigs for those who need them. WOODBRIDGE – The large brown curls kept falling off 6-year-old Olivia Idrissi’s head as she sat patiently waiting, until 12 inches had been cut, leaving her with a bouncy bob. “I didn’t…