Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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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.
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County auxiliary police academy graduates 43
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Middlesex County Police Auxiliary Cadet Omar Jimenez snaps a salute with the rest of his class during graduation ceremonies in Edison last week. EDISON – Metuchen resident Todd Garris had no idea what lay ahead of him when he started at the Middlesex…
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Nature lives in Edison off the beaten path
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – The wind sweeps through tall grass, open barn windows and crab apple trees. A bullfrog holds court in a still pond, croaking commands through the reeds. Somewhere in the distance, a rooster calls, often. Forget the clich that roosters only “cock-a-doodle-doo” to announce the…
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Pastor has been friend to all for a quarter century
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer JAY BODAS The Rev. Robert Lee Counselman says Sunday Mass at Trinity Episcopal Church on Rahway Avenue on June 18. WOODBRIDGE – For the last 25 years, the Rev. Robert Lee Counselman, 58, has served as pastor of Trinity Episcopal Church on Rahway Avenue. “He just…
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SCOTT PILLING staff A Middlesex County Auxiliary drill sergeant inspects his cadets before their graduation ceremonies begin at the Middlesex County College in Edison last week. See story, page 7.
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Town says goodbye to a mayor and a gentleman
Frank G. Pelzman Pelzman’s faith and fortitude carried him through his brief illness BY PATRICIA A. MILLER & JAY BODAS Staff Writers It was less than a month ago when Woodbridge Mayor Frank G. Pelzman, 71, gathered his staff and said he had something to tell them. The mayor leaned back in his chair at…
