Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • I want to go to the carnival

    MATT DENTON A rainbow comes out after the rains at the annual carnival at St. Matthew’s Parish in Edison June 18.

  • La Rosa rises from the ashes

    Landmark pizzeria reopens after December fire BY ENID WEISS Correspondent Like a mythical phoenix, La Rosa restaurant has emerged from the fire that destroyed its former location. SCOTT FRIEDMAN Carmen Troia, one of the owners of LaRosa Pizzeria and Restaurant, in Metuchen, reaches for a slice on Saturday. The restaurant recently reopened after a fire…

  • 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…

  • Acting Superintendent Dimuzio retained

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – Acting Superintendent John Dimuzio’s contract was renewed for the 2008-09 school year during the township Board of Education meeting June 16. This fall, it will be the second school year that Dimuzio will be acting in the capacity of district superintendent. The vote, according to Dimuzio, was 7-0,…

  • Edison Arts Society celebrates 10th anniversary

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Linda Vonderschmidt-LaStella, visual arts chair in the Edison Arts Society, displays her work, “Phases of the Moon” (l-r) and “The Kiss” during the arts society’s 10th-anniversary art show. EDISON – The Edison Arts Society celebrated its 10th anniversary with a gallery show at the municipal building, highlighting the artistic progress…

  • Skin damage not so sunny

    As summer approaches, people urged to use sun protection BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The signs of summer are here. The air is warmer, the trees are greener and the sun shines high and bright above. It is this last point, however, that concerns some medical experts. As people, especially youths, are spending…

  • Twp. Council to make final decision on redev. agency

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The Township Council is set to vote tonight on whether to create an independent redevelopment agency, though unless the ordinance receives substantial changes to its language in the meantime, there will not be any opportunity for public comment. The ordinance will be up for a vote after the…

  • Saying thanks

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Paula Harris, aka Pollydoodle the Clown, presents a balloon animal to volunteer Paul Cano, 12, at the community health fair at JFK Hartwyck at Oak Tree in Edison on Saturday.