Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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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…
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Mayors expected to officiate civil unions
Most mayors cite legal compliance as reason for conducting ceremonies BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Middlesex County mayors mostly approve of the bill that allows same-sex couples to enter civil unions, which are legally similar to marriage. The mayors of North and South Brunswick as well as Woodbridge, Metuchen and South…
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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…
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Civil unions end at the New Jersey border
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer While the civil union bill has given same-sex couples a plethora of additional rights and responsibilities, its effects stop short at the federal level, according to legal and financial experts. Felice T. Londa, an attorney with the firm Londa and Londa in Elizabeth said that while…
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Naked cop exonerated by Superior Court judge
His future with Edison police hinges on outcome of departmental charges BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – A state Superior Court judge overturned the conviction of former Edison Patrolman Ioannis Mpletsakis on Jan. 3, nullifying a conviction for hindering apprehension in Dunellen Municipal Court in June. Judge Melvin L. Gelade…
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Chaplain is a companion during life’s last stage
Hospice chaplain speaks about life, death, the realities of grief BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON — Peg O’Halloran said her job is like two rings touching. They do not overlap, one does not overwhelm the other. They are simply complementary. As the first full-time chaplain at the Barbara E. Cheung…
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Officials statewide to meet on consolidation
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer Metuchen METUCHEN — Mayor Edmund O’Brien and other borough officials were expected to join other mayors from similar boroughs and townships state-wide today to fight the state’s proposals for consolidation. The bipartisan press conference and rally was expected to be held at 11:30 a.m. on Jan.…
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Time capsule reveals church’s and world’s past
Newspaper headline of Hitler invading Poland and start of WWII BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Kosmoski holds one of the newspapers — The New York Herald Tribune — that was found in the time capsule. WOODBRIDGE — The Rev. David Kosmoski of St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in…
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Traffic laws we don’t know or simply ignore
Passing on the right or hanging tassels from a rearview mirror can get you tickets in the Garden State BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer You see the flashing red lights in the rearview mirror and you don’t know why. You weren’t speeding, and you know that you came to a full stop at that stop…
