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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Young ballerinas perform “My Favorite Things” as dancers from the Jill Justin Dance Studio, from ages 2 to 18, put on their first recital, at Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center in Edison on Saturday. For more photos, see page 3.

  • Council approves creation of redevelopment agency

    Mayor will nominate members sometime within next month BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Edison Township Council narrowly approved the creation of an independent redevelopment agency by a vote of 4-3 during its June 25 meeting. The decision ends a long, drawn-out process that involved the ordinance that would create the agency being introduced, tabled,…

  • Dancers’ progress

    Clockwise from top: Young ballerinas perform “Broadway Baby” as dancers from the Jill Justin Dance Studio, ages 2 to 18, put on their very first recital, at Middlesex County College Performing Arts Center in Edison on Saturday. Alexis McCoy strikes a pose. Performers leap during the number called “Goodbye.” PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Chamber of Commerce holds awards night

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Members of the Edison Chamber of Commerce recognized their own during the chamber’s annual awards dinner on June 17 at the Pines Manor on Route 27. The 300-member business organization also swore in its new officers. The event was attended by prominent members of Edison’s business and non-profit community as…

  • Metuchen High School: it’s all in the family

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent When Metuchen graduating senior Jack Rems received his diploma on June 25, it marked more than a commencement for his family – it also was a homecoming of sorts. Twenty-five years earlier, his father had walked the same path: Erik Rems graduated from Metuchen High School in 1983. In fact, the…

  • Cop ready to be borough’s first lieutenant since 1998

    Detective David Irizarry assumes post after rank’s reinstatement in April BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Detective Sgt. David Irizarry, a 16-year veteran of the borough police department, said he is ready to take on the lieutenant position and is excited to get back on the road. “That’s the one thing that I missed…

  • Township Council passes floor-area-ratio reforms

    Maximum size increased to cut down on land-use variance requests BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The Township Council narrowly passed an ordinance that would increase the maximum allowable floorarea ratio in the town’s two largest residential zones, RB and RBB, during its June 25 meeting. The ordinance, which was unanimously introduced in late…

  • Convenience store, gas station robbed at gunpoint

    Gun recovered by police, but suspect reported still at large BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – Township police are searching for a man they believe committed two armed robberies last week before eluding authorities in the early-morning hours following the robberies. Lt. Joseph Shannon, public information officer, said that the two separate armed robberies…

  • Barnes pushes for preservation agreement from towns

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent METUCHEN – The Borough Council listened to a plea by Assemblyman Peter Barnes III (D-Middlesex) to save Dismal Swamp from development, but deferred formally endorsing his proposal. While agreeing with Barnes’s statement on the nature area’s importance to the township and the region, the council decided not to endorse the proposal…