Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Wards initiative defeated
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – Edison voters rejected a pair of initiatives that would have increased the number of council members by two and split Edison into five different wards, each with its own representative on the Township Council. The other four seats on council would be at-large representation, as they are now.…
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Eight-year-old Meredith Kohlstock closes in on a goal as the Woodbridge Buddy Ball Soccer Program held its final game of the season at Roosevelt Park in Edison on Saturday.
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Council lodges complaint over missing budget details
Administration calls complaints to DCA, attorney general a political spectacle BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Edison Township Council voted to send a complaint to the state Department of Community Affairs and the state attorney general over Mayor Jun Choi’s intransigence in giving them the lineitem budget details. The budget, described by Business Administrator Anthony…
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Dial ‘U’ for uproar
Cell phone tower proposal draws strong rebuke BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – A proposed cell phone tower that would be located 200 feet from Martin Luther King Elementary School on Tingley Lane has parents and teachers enraged. Concerned that the children would be unsafe so close to the tower, they berated the Board…
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Dance, dance, dance
From top – At left: Samantha Staggard, 11, of Iselin, and Kristiana Still, 11, of Metuchen, limber up as Heidi Grokskreutz, star of the hit Fox show “So You Think You Can Dance” conducts a dance clinic at the Jill Justin Dance Studio in Edison on Oct. 25. Carley Deliman, 9, of Sewaren, stretches. Grokskreutz…
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Mr. Beck goes to Washington
Local teen takes part in Youth Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Seventeen-year-old Brian Beck recently got a chance to see how it all works in the nation’s capital. The senior at St. Joseph High School was selected by his history teacher, Ryan Lechner, to attend the National Youth…
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Edison gets $525K to improve Amboy Ave. area
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – The township has received about a half-million dollars in state aid, which will be devoted toward improvements to the Amboy Avenue area. The grant, which comes from the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Neighborhood Preservation Program, will come in the form of one payment of $125,000 and…
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Durham Ave. crash leads to tot’s death
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – On the rainy morning of Oct. 24, a motor vehicle accident at what Patrolman David Liantonio called “an odd intersection” resulted in the death of a 3-year-old girl, police said. Until that Wednesday at 8:47 a.m., Liantonio, who has been with the police department for 13 years, said…
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From gamer to entrepreneur
N.J. teen organizes professional video game tournaments, LAN parties BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer KATHY CHANG With his new Web site ProHaloLeague.com and organized LAN tournaments, Ryan Gellis, 17, of Brick Township, hopes to turn gaming into a competition rather than merely a leisure activity. Gellis is pictured at one of the LAN tournaments held…
