Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Trinity owners prepare for the first supper

    Renovations well under way at site of former church BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Charles Merla, co-owner of Trinity in Keyport, oversees renovations at the Broad Street church-turned-restaurant, April 11. According to Merla, he hopes to open for business sometime in May. Trinity is…

  • School budget and bond both defeated

    Council will decide how much to cut, if anything, from the budget BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Call it sticker shock, call it overreaching, but for the second straight year, the Edison School District’s budget and its ambitious $79 million bond proposal were both defeated by voters on April 17. The…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff Seven-year-old Elizabeth Lawson of Metuchen helps to discard some garbage littering the ground on Earth Day. Lawson and many other youngsters visited some of Metuchen’s more littered areas to clean them up on Saturday, April 21.

  • Defense rests with McGuire opting not to testify

    Jury heard character witnesses on final day of defense’s case BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK – As Melanie McGuire’s defense attorneys rested her case after only four days of witness testimony last week, McGuire decided that she would not take the stand. “I wish to remain silent,” answered McGuire…

  • Fire union seeks seven new members, new equipment

    Council passes resolution urging mayor to hire more members BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – Firefighters spoke out at the April 11 Township Council meeting calling on Mayor Jun Choi to address safety issues within the department. Members of the Edison Fire Fighter’s union Local 1197 called on the mayor…

  • Contest turns Menlo Park mall into ‘prison’

    Radio station sponsors contest that ‘incarcerates’ listeners to win prizes BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – The phone rang for Jack Tirone. The Jackson resident eagerly answered. It would be his only lifeline to the outside world other than gawking onlookers lobbing questions, their visages locked in confusion. Tirone was…

  • Survivor tells story of life in hiding

    Neighbor of Anne Frank tells students how he survived the Holocaust BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Jerry von Halle tells the tale of survival and the life in hiding he lived more than 60 years ago during the Holocaust. He visited students at Herbert Hoover Middle School in…

  • Immigration deported Parikh on April 12

    EDISON – Rajnikant Parikh, the Edison resident who accused the Edison Police department of brutality following a Fourth of July arrest last year, was deported to his native India on Thursday following charges that he was in the country illegally. Adam Puharic, a representative from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency’s Newark Bureau,…

  • Easter Sunday crash claims one life

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – A 21-year-old borough man died in the early morning of Easter Sunday when his 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass was traveling westbound on Route 27 and crossed into the eastbound lane, hitting a sign post and then slamming into a tree near the intersection of Grant…