Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Ground broken on new public safety center

    Will house police, fire and EMS workers as well as provide training space BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Edison Township officials joined with local business owners in breaking ground on the new public safety center in Edison during an unusually cold morning on May 22. A rendering of the new public safety center in Edison.…

  • Local food pantry facing dwindling stock

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – A local food pantry has been struggling to meet increased demands in the wake of rising prices worldwide. The Hands of Hope program at St. James Episcopal Church in Edison, which runs a large food bank and a soup kitchen, has reported a spike in the number of…

  • Local Cub Scouts honored

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer KATHY CHANG Seven of the 59 members of the Metuchen Cub Scout Pack 69 crossed over into the Boy Scouts, six earning the Arrow of Light award, the highest award in Cub Scouts, at the Cub Scout award ceremony onMay 9. Top row: Daniel Bernheimer (l-r), 10,Metuchen; Scott Boxer, 11,…

  • Photographer captures Hall of Fame moments

    Latest assignment puts Gary Gellman in midst of famous New Jerseyans BY AMY ROSEN Staff Writer Gary Gellman, who for years has photographed presidents, corporate leaders and other VIPs, found himself on another big assignment not too long ago. GARY GELLMAN New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine (l) congratulates legendary baseball catcher Yogi Berra (c) and…

  • Residents voice concern over train project

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – Edison residents gathered at the Stelton Community Center in the first of what was promised to be many meetings to build grass-roots opposition to the Edison Exchange project currently being promoted by development firm InterCap Holdings. The effort, being organized by a political action group called the Edison…

  • Researchers testing potential treatment for schizophrenia

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer For the past five years, lead researchers Dr. Steven M. Silverstein, of Metuchen, and Dr. Stephanie Marcello, of Princeton, with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)- University Behavioral Healthcare, Newark, have been applying a rewardbased learning and attention-shaping method to enhance skills training in schizophrenia patients.…

  • Bill could move school elections to November

    BY CHRIS MURINO Staff Writer Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts has formally introduced legislation that would eliminate the state’s April school elections and would move school board member elections to November. The bipartisan measure was released on Monday by the Assembly Education Committee. Under the bill, people would not get to vote on the school budget…

  • Photo

    CHRIS KELLY staff Local elementary fifth-grader Kaitlee Francisco dances before residents at the JFK Hartwyck Nursing Home in Edison on May 13. She and her fellow dancers are students at John Marshall Elementary School. More pictures on page 16.

  • Twp. Council tables redevelopment ordinance

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Council members cite concerns over eminent domain, other powers The Edison Township Council unanimously voted to table the ordinance that would create an independent redevelopment agency amid concerns that the measure, as currently worded, would give that entity too much power. The ordinance, which was discussed during the council’s May…