Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Budget amendment may cut $4M

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – The Township Council is considering an amendment to the 2006-07 budget that may cut next year’s tax increase by 5.5 cents. It will further discuss the amendment at a Nov. 30 special session. The amendment recommends a tax increase of 8 cents that would…

  • Gas attendant dragged by car, injured

    EDISON – A Route 1 Shell gas station attendant suffered serious head injuries after being dragged 300 to 400 feet by a car that had stopped for gas, police said. The incident occurred on Nov. 25 at 2:47 p.m., said Lt. Joseph Shannon. “A four-door white vehicle of an unknown make pulled into the gas…

  • Attempted bank theft ends with police chase

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – After a high-speed chase, police recently arrested two men and a woman, charging them with attempted theft by deception of a bank on Oak Tree Road. At 1 p.m. on Nov. 21, Patrolman Michael Perotti observed a 1999 Mitsubishi Galant abruptly exit the parking…

  • Smart growth summit yields ideas large, small

    Overall consensus is to create community atmosphere in township BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – Could Plainfield Avenue one day become the equivalent of Metuchen’s Main Street? That was one of many questions raised at a Nov. 18 township-sponsored Smart Growth Planning Initiative held at Herbert Hoover Middle School. The…

  • Church treats old Steinway to new life

    Parish spends $30K to refinish and refurbish 80-year-old piano PHOTOSBY CHRIS KELLY staff Brenda Day, minister of music at the First Presbyterian Church of Metuchen, plays a Frederick Chopin piece on the church’s newly refinished and refurbished black 1926 Model B Steinway piano during the special rededication concert at the church on Nov. 19. Below,…

  • A warm winter fest

    PHOTOS BY CHRIS KELLY staff Clockwise from left: Holiday pals tailgate on the back of a pick-up during the 53rd annual Winter Festival Parade in Metuchen on Sunday. A horse and carriage carries passengers down a cobblestone street. The man, the myth, the legend, Santa Claus pays a visit.

  • DEP fines landfill $70K for violations

    Closed portion of landfill said to have polluted the Raritan BY JESSICA SMITH Staff Writer BY JESSICA SMITHStaff Writer The state has fined Edgeboro Disposal Inc. in East Brunswick $70,000 after investigating an environmental group’s claim that the landfill was polluting the Raritan River. The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) issued the fines Nov. 15,…

  • March of the wooden soldiers

    CHRIS KELLY staff Kerry McNeill, 17, marches in the 53rd annual Winter Festival Parade in Metuchen on Nov. 26. For more photos, see page 15.

  • Wawa opponent says canopy is a building

    Planning board to decide if a canopy must count as floor space BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer The deceptively simple question of what constitutes a building came under serious debate at a recent Edison Township Planning Board meeting, when the board voted to continue an application on whether to build a…