Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Council OKs 7.5-cent budget amendment

    Budget would raise taxes on $200K-assessed property value by $150 BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON — After months of wrangling, the Township Council passed a budget amendment on Wednesday that will raise the municipal tax rate by 7.5 cents per $100 of assessed property value. The amendment was passed 6-1,…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 2006 in photos

    SCOTTPILLING staff Hadi Alim, 5, whispers his wishes while his little brother, Wasi, 3, waits his turn. SCOTTPILLING staff Dana Dlugosz of the Terra Firma Ballet Co. performs at the Metuchen Social Center on Nov. 10. SCOTTPILLING staff Hope waves hello as brother Charles sits back and relaxes at the 5th annual Central Jersey Cat…

  • Parish, Cameroon woman struggle to pay for meds

    Church seeks help to pay for anti-rejection drugs after transplant BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer METUCHEN — With 2007 just around the corner, many ordinary wish lists include losing five pounds or taking care of unpaid bills. But for First Presbyterian Church parish member and Middlesex County College student Iya Bekondo,…

  • For a good little girl

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff On the arms of her mom, Virginia, Halle Edghill, 2, Edison, takes a gift from Santa (East Brunswick Police radio dispatcher Rich Akens) during the annual East Brunswick Police Department’s Christmas Holiday Toy Giveaway at Saint Peter’s University Hospital, New Brunswick, on Dec. 22.

  • Restaurant parking lot revamp may help traffic

    Zoning Board approves lot renovations, nixes mixed-use building BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON — Oak Tree Road’s 25-year-old Edison Family Restaurant will soon get a makeover. The application, which had been continued from an Oct. 31 meeting, was unanimously approved by the Zoning Board at its Dec. 19 meeting. The…