Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Train noise making life in Sewaren unbearable

    Residents present petition; officials pledge to do what they can BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE – Some Sewaren residents are fed up with what they describe as earth-shattering noise from the coupling and uncoupling of nearby Motiva Refinery rail cars. The noise often leaves them sleepless. “The trains screech, clash…

  • New bank to replace ‘ugliest site’ in town

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – The Planning Board recently approved an application for a new bank building at the northwest corner of Plainfield Avenue and Route 27. “This is possibly the ugliest site in Edison right now, and we have the opportunity to make a difference in what the…

  • Fall fun

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Alyssa Aurelio, 8, and Sarah Leary, 8, of Brownie Troop No. 264 of Edison admire the line of scarecrows at the grand reopening of the Triple C Ranch in Edison on Sunday.

  • Recycling rocks

    SCOTT PILLING staff Lois Mettler and Caroll Saks of the Peppermint Patty Playhouse put on a show about recycling for the students of Ben Franklin Elementary School in Edison on Friday.

  • Land near swamp saved from any development

    Edison buys 22 acres for $1M with combo of open space funds BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer Advocates of open space preservation have a lot to be happy about. Edison recently purchased 22 acres of land near Ashbrook Swamp from the Edison Township Housing Authority for $1 million to protect it…

  • Local man pleads not guilty to murder of two

    Michael E. Ross II is being held on $1.55 million bail BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE – An Avenel man accused of shooting two Russian men to death in 2003 will face a Middlesex County grand jury in several weeks, an assistant county prosecutor said. Michael E. Ross II, 23,…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Visitors toss bread to the three little pigs, Charlotte, Suzette, and Gabby, at the grand reopening of the Triple C Ranch in Edison on Sunday.

  • Man charged with damaging school fields

    EDISON – Township police recently arrested a local man in connection with vandalism at Bishop George Ahr High School. Police arrested Daniel Miller, 21, of Edison, on Oct. 2 and charged him with criminal mischief. The incidents occurred in the early morning of Sept. 13, police said. High school officials estimated that the athletic fields…

  • Upgrades to TV station and Web site finished

    Improvements will make it easier to get information to public BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer Residents can now find out what’s going on in Metuchen a lot sooner, thanks to new and expanded programming on the borough’s television station and Web site. Borough officials, including Police Chief James Keane, Fire Chief…