Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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ANDREW MILLER staff Madison Fuentes, 5, of Edison, manages to find a needle in the haystack during the Harvest Eve event at James Monroe School in Edison Friday.
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Firm to study Route 27 traffic
Drivers to be asked where they came from, where they’re going BY JAY BODAS Correspondent Engineering firm Maser Consulting will soon begin work on an origin-and-destination study on the proposed Route 287 north access ramp to be located off Route 27. The study was announced by Metuchen Mayor Edmund O’Brien at the Oct. 1 meeting…
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Youth to undertake 30-mile bike ride for MS fundraiser
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Kyle Fiske, 11, will bike 30 miles in New York for victims of multiple sclerosis. METUCHEN – Eleven-year-old Kyle Fiske will turn his hobby of bike riding into a charity event this Sunday as he rides 30 miles for multiple sclerosis (MS) around the streets of Manhattan. “I always look…
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Gas leak closes road temporarily
EDISON – An Oct. 2 gas leak backed up traffic for about two and a half hours and led to a temporary building evacuation. According to Lt. Joseph Shannon of the Edison Township Police Department, an 8- inch gas main was found to be leaking around 12:40 p.m. that day. The leak was in front…
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A ‘new reality’ revealed at New Bruns. museum
PHOTOS COURTESY OF ZIMMERLI ART MUSEUM Among the photographs included in “A New Reality: Black-and-White Photography in Contemporary Art” are Diane Arbus’ “Two Ladies in the Automat,” from New York City in 1966 (below); and Kenneth Josephson’s “Michigan,” from 1981 (above). These gelatin silver prints are from the collection of Anne and Arthur Goldstein. NEW…
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Council to cap own salaries if ward issue passes in Nov.
Council would divide current amount by nine BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer The Edison Township Council adopted a resolution on Sept. 26 capping the amount budgeted for council salaries to $42,500 in the event that the ward referendum questions are successful this November. Under the resolution, if the referendum for the ward system of government…
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Danny Kamph, 10, of Edison, soars high on the Euro Bungy at the North Brunswick 25th annual Heritage Day Community Festival in Babbage Park on Saturday.
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Coyotes sighted in South Brunswick
Official confirms at least three reports throughout township BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer South Brunswick residents and officials have reported three separate coyote sightings, with the most recent one taking place Monday, Sept. 24. Arthur Roedell, owner of Monmouth Mobile Home Park off Route 1, said that a coyote had been spotted coming right up…
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Residents affix pink bows for breast cancer awareness
Local family participates in memory of fallen friend BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Caroline Woodruff and her family walked up and down Main and New streets on Sept. 29, placing pink bows around lampposts and trees in honor of Woodruff’s best friend, Maria Jamison, who died of breast cancer in March. PHOTOS COURTESY OF CAROLINE…
