Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Author hopes you’ll say, ‘Oh yes’ to ‘Oh No, Domino!’

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Kim Adlerman’s idea of circles evolved from the wallpaper border hanging in her daughter Rochelle’s room when she was 3 years old, eventually turning into her newly published children’s book, “Oh No, Domino!” with music by her husband, Danny. The wallpaper had apples made out of circles and…

  • BBB: Play smart when buying tickets online

    With the college football and National Football League (NFL) seasons under way, Better Business Bureau (BBB) is warning sports fans to be on the lookout for fraudulent sellers when shopping for hard-to-get tickets online. The secondary-ticket market for sporting and entertainment events, which includes tickets bought and sold by professional brokers, speculators and season-ticket holders,…

  • Outdoor Navratri festival nixed for next year

    103 noise complaints cited as reason festival must find new location BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – Organizers for Edison’s open-air Navratri festival will need to find a new venue next year. Responding to a large number of noise complaints from neighbors, Edison Township has declined to give its permission to hold the multiweekend…

  • Metuchen will post council meetings online

    BY JAY BODAS Correspondent METUCHEN – Don’t have time to attend Borough Council meetings in person? Then watch them over the Internet at your leisure. “There are new additions to the borough Web site, featuring videotapes of the council meetings,” said Borough Administrator William Boerth at the Nov. 19 meeting of the Borough Council. “We…

  • Baubles, bangles, all things bright and shiny

    Tiffany & Co. takes its place in Central Jersey BY CARA SCHULTZ Correspondent Brilliant diamonds, lustrous sterling silver and gleaming gold jewelry are designed to dazzle even the most blasé shopper who peruses the display cases at the newly opened Tiffany & Co. at 105 Broad St. PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Officials of Tiffany…

  • Teens’ driving habits placed under scrutiny

    Special commission hears suggestions from parents, students BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer What can be done to decrease the startling recent spike in motor vehicle accidents involving teenagers was the topic of a public hearing conducted by the Governor’s Teen Driver Study Commission on Nov. 19 at Colts Neck High School. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR…

  • Police foil heroin sale

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Detectives were able to foil a drug transaction of heroin at the corner of Bounty Street and Amboy Avenue last week, according to police. Police arrested and charged John E. Toth, 22, Edison, with possession of 34 decks of heroin, valued at $700, possession with the intent to…

  • Armed men rob day spa, bind victims in duct tape

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The Halo Day Spa on Woodbridge Avenue was robbed at gunpoint, with the suspects leaving employees and patrons bound with duct tape as they made off with $500 cash, a cell phone and the facility’s VCR. According to Sgt. Robert Dudash, public information officer with the Edison Police…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Former Metuchen resident Mark Stephen visits his favorite salon for the holiday cut-a-thon, which supports Metuchen Pulls Together, at the All About U Salon and Spa in Metuchen on Monday.