Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • 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…

  • James Gandolfini supports Asbury, independent films

    BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPP Staff Writer BY JENNIFER KOHLHEPPStaff Writer It was reminiscent of the dream when the fish spoke to Tony Soprano to let him know it was time for Big Pussy to go. On an overcast March 24, actor James Gandolfini again walked down the Asbury Park boardwalk, only this time the situation wasn’t…

  • County ranked eighth in child well-being report

    BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer A new report released last week by the Association for Children of New Jersey puts Middlesex County slightly better than middle-of-the-road when it comes to child well-being. The New Jersey Kids Count report says that Middlesex County is ranked eighth out of the state’s 21 counties…

  • Captive contestants

    PHOTOS BY JEFF GRANIT staff Above: A security guard wheels “inmate” Jesse Cinquegrana of Woodbridge on a cart during a radio station contest in which contestants compete against one another inside a “prison” in the mall. Left: Jack Tirone, a contestant in the contest, sits inside a “prison” at the mall. Tirone is competing against…

  • Three Dem. slates emerge for council nomination

    Slates backed by mayor, ’05 mayoral candidate to challenge incumbents BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – As the deadline passed to file for a spot on the June 5 Democratic primary ballot for four contested council seats Monday, three slates have emerged, ranging from relative newcomers to political veterans. Mayor…

  • Residents will be asked to approve $26M budget

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Residents will go to the polls on April 17 to vote on a $26,278,575 tax levy and choose three candidates for the three available seats on the school board. If the tax levy on the $28,431,451 school budget is approved, the school tax rate…