Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Park it
CHRIS KELLY staff Parking is scarce at the Edison train station, but it is about to receive 350 additional spaces about a mile down the road. Commuters will be able to get from the lot to the station through a shuttle bus.
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Borough’s La Rosa pizzeria lost in blaze
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – A mid-morning blaze destroyed La Rosa Pizzeria & Italian Restaurant on Middlesex Avenue last week, which has been a staple in the borough for 30 years. “It was just a bad fire,” said Metuchen Fire Chief Robert Donnan. Over 100 firefighters from area fire departments including Edison, New…
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Police report home invasion on Linda Lane
EDISON – Edison police are searching for suspects in a Dec. 26 home invasion in which a man’s house was burglarized. According to Edison Police Lt. Joseph Shannon, public information officer, a house on Linda Lane was entered at 3:30 that morning by forcing open a rear sliding glass door. The victim, a 59-year-old man,…
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Short-story book features local authors
Contributors include both professionals and beginners BY JAY BODAS Correspondent Besides being an attorney, incoming borough councilman Chris Morrison is also a writer of fiction in his free time. “I had always enjoyed writing, but I had never really shared that with anyone else,” Morrison said. “Before this, I hadn’t been published in anything besides…
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A double-dog dare
Jeremey Edelstein, 5, of Monroe, takes a lick of a reindeer ice sculpture carved by Metuchen taxidermist Johnny Shersick at the neighborhood family holiday party at Express Automotive in Metuchen last Wednesday. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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No minute like the last one
Left to right: Grace Fong, 3, of Metuchen, and her brother, Luke, 4, sheepishly talk with Santa at the “last minute shopping night” benefit sponsored by Learning Is an Art at the American Legion Post No. 65 in Metuchen last Wednesday. Betty Stolarski, Metuchen, watches her daughters (from right) Mya, 7, and Kyra, 4, make…
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Board approves Route 1 parking lot expansion
Environmental group protests plan that requires 450-tree forest clear-cut BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The Edison Township Planning Board voted to grant preliminary approval to the creation of a 2-acre parking lot for a business that details and repairs Ferraris andMaseratis, during its Dec. 17 meeting. The application had generated significant opposition from…
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Governor announces health-care expansion
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Gov. Jon S. Corzine speaks at the press conference announcing a program that offers low-cost health insurance to children, at the Woodbridge Center Mall on Dec. 19. PHOTO COURTESY OF TIM LARSEN FOR THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR WOODBRIDGE- Beginning Jan. 1, all New Jersey children will have access to…
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Hats off to ’em
Local knitters make more than 200 hats for cancer patients BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON – With a goal of making 200 knit hats for cancer patients, an effort that began in October, a group of ladies from the Catholic Campus Ministry at Middlesex County College have reached their goal – and more. “We…
