Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Police seek suspect in Durham Ave. sexual attack
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – Police are looking for a dark-skinned male who is a suspect in the sexual assault of a 21-year-old female who was walking along Durham Avenue last week, police said. The incident occurred at approximately 9:40 p.m. as the victim, a Virginia resident, was walking on Durham Avenue between…
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Church celebrates its 175th anniversary
Site’s long and storied history explored BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE – The Woodbridge United Methodist Church celebrated its 175th anniversary with a look back on the church’s rich history last week. Members of the church, 69 Main St., kicked off the celebration with a fish and chips dinner provided by Argyle Fish &…
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Haunted prison a place of sadness and despair
BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA – Even the weather cooperated when the Garden State Ghost Hunters Society visited the abandoned Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia in June. Thunder boomed. Lightning flickered eerily from the skylights and across the stone walls of the medieval-looking prison built back in 1829. Except for their camera lights,…
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Katrina still echoes in New Orleans, says author
Wardlaw-Hartridge alum recounts experience of covering hurricane BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – A presentation by journalist and author Jed Horne, given before students at Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, portrayed New Orleans as a city racked with confusion and miscommunication during Hurricane Katrina, and facing tough choices about its future in the post-storm rebuilding.…
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Cheering for a cause
PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: Alyssa Errico, 16, Brittany Young, 16, both from J.P. Stevens High School in Edison, rally the crowd at the “Shop for a Cause” charity event at Macy’s at the Menlo Park Mall in Edison Saturday. At left: Brittany Tufaro, 15, of J.P. Stevens High School, waits to cheer at the…
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Councilwoman, rec. department, clash over program funding
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – A difference in opinion over township sponsorship of certain recreation programs led to a conflict between Township Council member Antonia Ricigliano and Recreation Department head Denise Halliwell during a council meeting Oct. 9. At issue was whether the township should make space in the Stelton and Minnie Veal…
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Pavithra Ponnolu, 3, of Edison gets a sky high balloon hat from clown Allison Vitali, who is the camp director at the Woodbridge YMCA, during the Metuchen-Edison-Woodbridge YMCA annual Janice Garbolino Memorial 5K run on Roosevelt Park in Edison on Oct. 13.
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Council demands budget details from administration
Spending plan still being fine-tuned, says admin. spokesperson BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Edison Township Council has been growing increasingly impatient as it waits for a detailed, line-by-line budget report from the administration. With nothing but an overview of the proposed spending plan, which was introduced in late September, council members have expressed frustration…
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Infrastructural renovations to MHS nearly complete
Improvements are phase two of school overhaul BY JAY BODAS Correspondent In a few year’s time, incoming students to Metuchen High School will enter a newly renovated school. “Three years ago, this community was involved in the discussion of passing a bond issue for which we would renovate this high school and provide new windows…
