Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Former addict counsels teens on ‘hood’ life dangers
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON — After serving four and a half years in state prison for selling drugs, Dwayne Bowen, 34, is now giving back to his community. “I was an alcoholic when I was in high school at J.P. Stevens, where every morning I would wake up to…
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Forum probes the pitfalls of life as a teenage girl
MADD founder tells county students they can change their world BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer MONROE — Girls just wanna have fun. And learn. And be social. And share their experiences. The third annual Young Women’s Conference, hosted by the National Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence of Middlesex County and…
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Metuchen man arrested for sexual assault
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer PISCATAWAY – A longtime woodshop teacher at Conackamack Middle School in Piscataway was arrested and charged last week with aggravated sexual assault on a female — who wasn’t a student of his — over a four-year period beginning when the female was 10 years old. The…
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Fire destroys first level of house, kills birds
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — A fire ripped through and destroyed the first floor of a two-story residence on Irving Avenue, killing the family’s pet birds that were inside last week. “We were able to determine that the fire started in the kitchen,” said Fire Chief Robert Donnan. “But…
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Legislature adopts civil union law
Aberdeen couple one of seven who sued to force change BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer BY CHRIS GAETANOStaff Writer Same-sex couples in New Jersey will now have access to all the legal rights and responsibilities heterosexual couples possess, except for the right to call their relationship “marriage.” On Thursday, the New Jersey Legislature passed a…
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Residents, officials rate mayor’s performance
Appraisals of Choi BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Edison Mayor Jun H. Choi addresses students at Herbert Hoover Middle School on Dec. 13 The grades are in, and depending on who one talks to, Edison Mayor Jun Choi’s first year in office has gone admirably, badly or somewhere…
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After tumultuous year, mayor still optimistic
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer Even if his first year in office has left him fatigued, Edison Mayor Jun Choi isn’t showing any signs of it. “It’s been a great, exciting period, where we have introduced more ordinances than in any single year in over 15 years,” Choi said, flashing a…
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Tree-lighting festivities
PHOTOS BY SCOTT PILLING staff Above, the Nativity story had three Wise Men, but the Metuchen Holiday Tree lighting had four sax players. Connor Babos, John Lombardi, Christian Patel and Daniel Ayzenberg of the Edgar Middle School performed before the tree lighting. At right, 7-year-old Amy Owens watched the festivities on Dec. 8 perched high…
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Edison recording has date with space station
Shuttle commander and Edison native takes recording aboard BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON — When the Space Shuttle Discovery launched on Saturday night, it had aboard two stowaways — Thomas Edison and Theodore Roosevelt. A recording made by Edison of Roosevelt in 1912 is accompanying the astronauts bound for the…
