Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Metuchen police arrest burglary suspect
Suspect attempted to flee out third-floor window; eventually apprehended in attic BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Metuchen police arrested and charged a 51-year-old Plainfield man last week for aggravated assault in the second degree upon a 64-year-old man at the victim’s Grove Avenue residence on June 6. Police were dispatched to the residence at 5:41…
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Celebrating us
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Clockwise from left: Yu-chen Chen, of North Brunswick, of the Tzu-Chi Organization, paints a traditional Chinese watercolor at the annual Just for Us festival for individuals with disabilities and their guardians at Stelton Park in Edison on Saturday. The festival was sponsored by the Edison Recreation Department. Loreen Pryor, (l), 11,…
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School closes out 125th graduating class
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The ritual was familiar to just about anyone who has been through high school. Caps and gowns were worn proudly as various speakers reflected on where the graduating students had come from and where they were going from there. The Wardlaw-Hartridge School, in Edison, celebrated the graduation of its 125th…
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Toth hearing delayed
EDISON – A state hearing to investigate the abrupt dismissal of Superintendent Carol Toth from the employ of the Edison school district has been delayed until at least July. According to Randye Bloom, an official with the Office of Administrative Law (OAL), the venue in which the hearing had been scheduled to take place, the…
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Food bank leaders touched by support from community
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The Hands of Hope food bank and soup kitchen in Edison has received an outpouring of donations and support after reports of its dwindling stocks reached the public, according to one of the program’s coordinators. “I am overwhelmed, really, because with the state of the economy and everyone…
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Vote on redevelopment agency draws near
Residents opposed to agency will rally before June 11 council meeting BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – People concerned over the council’s imminent vote to create an independent redevelopment agency plan to rally outside town hall about a half-hour before the council meeting on June 11. According to Mary Anne Hennessy, a local resident,…
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Boro sets up emergency warning system
New system used to issue tornado watch to residents last week BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN- Residents can now receive emergency and other messages via the borough’s local Channel 15 (MeTV), the borough’s Web site, e-mail, and even text messages to mobile phones. “Last week we sent out a message of a tornado watch,…
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June in the garden … a cultivated eye
Gardening is an antidote to the rigors of daily life, and container gardening continues to be an excellent way to introduce “outdoor decorators” to the joys of growing plants. Budding green thumbs will have a terrific opportunity for creativity, beauty and great fun in the garden Novelty is the green industry’s driving force. “Wave” petunias,…
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June bugging
MATT DENTON Lisa Allgauer, 12, puts the finishing touches on her Junebug sidewalk art at the Metuchen Junebug art festival.
