Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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New group wants more input on development
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – More than 20 residents have come together to create Metuchen Citizens for Responsible Development to voice their concerns over the proposed town center for the old Stop & Shop site. “We are a grassroots, community-driven group of Metuchen citizens formed to educate and encourage…
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Health officials offer tips for avian flu pandemic
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer If a much-feared avian flu pandemic were to hit the U.S. three months from now, would you be prepared? The American Red Cross is helping the general public to learn just what to do if such a catastrophe were to occur through a grant from the…
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Always room for ‘Jell-O’
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Polly wants attention. Feonie Lesman, 4, gives parakeet “Jell-O” just what he wants during a presentation by the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Educational Center, of Freehold, at the Edison Public Library on Plainfield Avenue June 28.
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Salary hike OK’d for new administrator
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – The Township Council recently approved a $30,000 salary hike for the business administrator position. Council members also approved a stipulation in the contract of new Business Administrator Anthony Cancro, which will allow him three months notice in the event of termination. Cancro, approved by…
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Spin class
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Caitlyn Jones, 8, granddaughter and assistant to Terri Jones of the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Educational Center, of Freehold, shows how smart her pet parakeet Jell-O is at the Edison Public Library on Plainfield Avenue June 28.
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MCC magazine takes top honors in contest
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG The Middlesex County College literary and arts magazine, Myriad, has won the 2005 Silver Crown Award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for the second consecutive year. Some of the Myriad’s staff stands with the awards that the magazine has won. Left to right…
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Boro Council renews tavern’s liquor license
Public hearing on NJ Tavern’s liquor license set for July 17 BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – The owner of the NJ’s Tavern & Restaurant on Main Street is due to appear at a liquor license hearing next month to answer 11 complaints filed against her by the Police Department.…
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Sixth-graders say no through DARE program
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Katie Wolff hopes the day she is approached with alcohol by her peers never comes. “Since I’m only in sixth grade, I don’t have all the parties to go to like in high school,” said Wolff in her first-place Drug Abuse Resistance Education essay.…
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Birds of a feather
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Varsha Manjrekar and daughter Anagha Dangi, 3, pet Angel, a cockatoo, during the Arcadia Bird Sanctuary and Educational Center’s presentation at the Edison Public Library on Plainfield Avenue June 28.
