Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Striving for harmony

    For many at St. Francis Cathedral in Metuchen, remembering the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a chance to offer petitions for racial harmony, the very cause Dr. King fought and eventually died to create. Deacon Guido J. Brossoni (far left) reads a passage for congregants. Usher Sam Vscocvich (top right), Michael Aubourg (left)…

  • Council approves new computer contract

    Ethics order limits dual office holding and creates ethics liaison officer BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer Edison EDISON – The Township Council awarded a contract to Business Automated Technologies (BAT) last Wednesday, fulfilling a Superior Court order to redo the faulty bidding process for computer services. Superior Court Judge Robert Longhi…

  • Martin Luther King Jr. Service

    JEFF GRANIT staff Martin Luther King Jr. Service Usher Roberto Sayers kneels in prayer at the annual racial harmony service for Martin Luther King Jr. at St. Francis Cathedral in Metuchen on Sunday.  

  • Council tables ordinance to create own attorney

    Ad hoc committee to research legality, necessity of position BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer The Edison Township Council opted to table an ordinance that would create a position for an attorney to work exclusively for and with the council. The ordinance was pulled on Jan. 10 by its sponsor, Councilman Salvatore…

  • Woman seeks aid so she can help poor kids

    Student spends breaks helping children in Central America BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer Wendy Chan is pictured with an orphan named Gerson, who lives in Honduras with his younger brother and two older sisters. The older children take care of the younger children in the absence of their parents. OLD BRIDGE…

  • Two found dead in Woodbridge apt.

    Police say cause of death is unknown, but foul play is not suspected BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE – Two township residents were found dead inside the living room of their Woodbridge Gardens apartment on Bunns Lane last week. Police received a 911 call at 11:38 a.m. on Jan. 10…

  • South Amboy man kidnapped, beaten

    Three charged in Dec. 26 incident; two still at large BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – – Three men are in custody after allegedly kidnapping a 20-year-old South Amboy man, holding him for seven hours, beating him and eventually extorting his family out of $1,000, according to police. On Dec.…

  • Delivery truck robbed at gunpoint

    WOODBRIDGE – Police are looking for two males who robbed $5,400 worth of money and boxes of cigarettes at gunpoint outside of an Exxon gas station in Iselin last week. The incident occurred between 10:30 a.m. and 10:40 a.m. on Dec. 29, police said. The victim, an employee of LAJ Distributors, told police that he…

  • Officials rally to fight school consolidation

    Mayors stand against state bills that would combine schools BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer PHOTOSBY SCOTT PILLING staff Metuchen Mayor Edmund O’Brien delivers his speech during a bipartisan press conference last week on the fight against the state’s proposals for consolidation while Metuchen parents hold their signs expressing their opposition to…