Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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A walk to remember a much-loved daughter
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer Kaitlyn Jennifer Papkin EDISON – Kaitlyn Jennifer Papkin died of brain cancer in 2003, two weeks short of her seventh birthday. On Sept. 24, her family and friends will gather at the Roosevelt Park lake at 9 a.m. to honor her memory and create more awareness…
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Menlo Park museum slated for an upgrade
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – Thomas Edison is Jack Stanley’s passion. For the past eight years, curator Stanley has overseen the museum immediately beside the Edison Memorial Tower. “This site is the birthplace of organized research,” Stanley said during a tour of the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum. “After…
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Jury finds suspect guilty for 2 assaults
Was charged with attacks on women in Edison, N.B. BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer BY JENNIFER AMATOStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK – A township man was found guilty in state Superior Court on Friday on 12 counts of aggravated sexual assault and burglary while armed. Bruce Darnell Sterling, 36, was convicted of burglary while armed with…
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Poetry in motion
CHRIS KELLY staff Edison’s Danielle Ryan, 11, center, does the “Cotton Eye Joe” dance with a group of other kids at the Edison Street Fair on Amboy Avenue recently.
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New budget calls for 8.5-cent hike in tax rate
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Residents with a home assessed at the borough average will see their taxes rise $160 in the 2006-07 municipal budget, officials said. “We always would like to see the tax rate go down,” said Mayor Edmund O’Brien. “But I don’t see any significant decrease…
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Cruisin’
JEFF GRANIT staff James Dean (center), along with Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe, sit back in a 1957 Chevy at the Antique Car Cruise Night Sept. 6 on Main Street in Metuchen.
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Food galore
CHRIS KELLY staff Charles Deangelis of My Cousin Vinny’s Italian deli cooks up food galore for the Edison Street Fair on Sept. 9.
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YMCA fundraiser slated for this month
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – The YMCA’s second annual Richard M. Hale Memorial Golf Classic tournament is just around the corner. The event, to be held on Sept. 25 at the Metuchen Golf and Country Club on Plainfield Road, is the YMCA’s largest annual fundraiser for the YMCA’s Fund…
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Good cause
JAY BODAS Edison Mayor Jun Choi accepts a coconut from a Swaminaryan priest in a ceremony to mark the beginning of this past Sunday’s BAPS Care International Walk 2006 across the street from the JFK Medical Center.
