Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • 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…

  • 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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    ANDREW MILLER staff Adam Stoler, 7, Metuchen, carves a face into a pumpkin held by Pam Berenfeld of Metuchen as his friend, Tal Berenfeld, 7, looks on during a pumpkin-carving event at the Metuchen Senior Center on Oct. 27.

  • Questions persist about lack of detailed budget document

    Tentative budget of $116M receives heavy criticism for many reasons BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Edison’s tentative budget of $116 million was savagely excoriated by the Township Council and by the assembled public who had arrived for the proposed spending plan’s public hearing Oct. 24. In response to sentiments that the amount of information made…

  • Student actors Frank in upcoming production

    St. Joseph’s H.S. to put on stage production of ‘Diary of Anne Frank’ BY JAY BODAS Correspondent JAY BODAS Students at St. Joseph’s High School in Metuchen rehearse for their production of “The Diary of Anne Frank.” METUCHEN – St. Joseph High School Theatre Company will present the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “The Diary of Anne…

  • Buono: Elected state comptroller needed for N.J.

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Barbara Buono Sen. Barbara Buono, incumbent Democratic candidate for the state Senate’s 18th legislative district, which includes Edison and Metuchen, believes that the state should do more to aid local school districts while, at the same time, increasing oversight of its own expenses. To Buono, deficient levels of state aid…

  • Brown: State must cut spending, encourage business

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer Dan Brown New Jersey, says 18th District Republican state Senate candidate Dan Brown, is living far beyond its means, and this fact is weighing heavily on its residents. Skeptical of various proposals intended to increase revenues, such as asset monetization, the matrimonial attorney from East Brunswick feels the best option…

  • Metuchen candidates debate for mayor, council seats

    Development, spending, police management among topics discussed BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Hot topics, from consolidation and the proposed plans of the former Stop & Shop site to police scheduling and morale, were discussed at the debate between the Democratic and Republican candidates for mayor and council last week. About 50 people attended…

  • Six vie for county freeholder seats

    The following candidates are running for three seats on the Middlesex County Board of Chosen Freeholders. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES Stephen J. “Pete” Dalina Age: 77 Residence: Fords, Woodbridge Occupation: Retired bar and restaurant owner Position: Freeholder since 1990; deputy director since 1994; chairman of the Department of Parks and Recreation Listed accomplishments: Increasing the county park…