Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • N.J. still sorting out legal details of civil unions

    Whether institution is recognized elsewhere varies from state to state BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Same-sex couples all over New Jersey applied for civil union licenses when a new law that allows them to took effect last week. While the moment was seen by rights groups as a step forward, it…

  • New state law forces rebid of traffic contract

    Opening of bids after holiday violated new law; some fear legal action BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer A new state law and a communication snafu conspired to cause the Edison Township council to reject bids received for a traffic-calming device on Grove Ave. The law, for which council President Charles Tomaro…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Jeanette Miller and Joy Williamson, from the Perth Amboy Garden Club, experience the scent of the Hawaiian plumeria at the annual garden show at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison on Saturday.

  • Matching funds extended for Tower renovations

    Tower Corp. has six months to raise money to be matched by feds BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – Armed with a congressional resolution signed into law by President George W. Bush, and a six-month extension on matching federal funds, the Edison Memorial Tower Corp. is gearing up to raise…

  • La Partie D’Isabell

    PHOTOSBY SCOTT PILLING staff At left, Isabel Villacis, who was born with cerebral palsy, smiles as she spends some time with her mother, Ana, during “La Partie D’Isabell,” a vaudeville-style fundraiser her friend Kathryn Heitman help set up to make Isabell’s life dream to travel to Paris come true. The event was held at the…

  • Three arrested in alleged train assault

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Police arrested three of four suspects in connection with an aggravated assault upon a NJ Transit employee last week. The assault occurred at 5:29 p.m. on Feb. 12 on the train platform in Metuchen. The NJ Transit employee told police he had been assaulted…

  • The real ‘Garden’ State

    (Clockwise, beginning with top left): Paige Leszcynski, 3, from Trenton, checks out the daffodils during a visit to the annual garden show at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison on Feb. 17. Nicole Massa, 5, walks down the “yellow brick road” in the “Wizard of Oz” garden. Sand artist Chuck Seld from West Chester,…

  • Bill sparks debate over health vs. parents’ rights

    Some fear mandating cancer vaccine for girls may promote promiscuity BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer “It does have a potential toprevent some very serious diseases here.” – Sam Thompson Assemblyman A new bill before the state Assembly would require all girls entering the seventh grade to be immunized against the virus…

  • HPV infections have no signs or symptoms

    The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the name of a group of viruses that includes more than 100 different strains or types, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Internet Web site on sexually transmitted diseases. More than 30 of these viruses are transmitted sexually and they can infect the genital area of men…