Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • New policy would put kibosh on unwritten rule

    Creates guidelines over children in workplace to limit liability BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer EDISON – The township is preparing a policy concerning children in the workplace after council member Antonia Ricigliano raised the issue over fears that it could affect the liability of the township in several ways. Ricigliano said that while at town…

  • State ABC director to decide nightclub’s fate

    Studio 9 was the location of two riots, violations, late last month BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE – The state director of the Alcoholic Beverage Control board, Jerry Fisher, will decide whether or not to allow the owners of the Studio 9 restaurant and cocktail lounge on King Georges Road to continue to operate.…

  • Educators see benefits of Chinese lang. classes

    Three from O.B. share experiences from trip to China BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer In addition to visiting schools and working with children and teachers, a group of educators from Old Bridge visited cultural landmarks like the Great Wall of China. OLD BRIDGE – Like many things in America, the inspiration of three school faculty…

  • 9-year-old boy charged in death of infant

    Day-care worker charged with endangering the welfare of a child BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer was charged with the death of an 11- month-old Carteret boy at a home-based day care center in Iselin, last week. Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan announced in a statement on Aug. 29 that after a joint investigation by…

  • Towns by district

    About these statistics Staff members at Greater Media Newspapers recently studied the legislative records of each lawmaker in our coverage area for the 2006-07 legislative session. All figures were current as of Aug. 5, while the Legislature was on summer recess. The New Jersey Legislature’s Web site was used to chart the success of each…

  • Lawmakers face roadblocks on the hard road to success

    Some say system in Trenton must be changed BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The idea that there is too much politics in Trenton has been around for so long, it has become a cliché. The familiar bugaboos of partisanship and petty rivalries disrupting the legislative process are well known and well despised. The jockeying for…

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  • Prof. teaches African nursing educators HIV prevention

    Finds cultural barriers impeding actual progress in the fight of the disease BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer EDISON – Dula Pacquiao had one week to change the world. The associate professor and director of the Stanley Bergen Jr. Center for Multicultural Education, Research and Practice at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey…