Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Rezoning would protect mobile home residents

    Planning Board has 35 days to review council’s proposed ordinance BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – Officials are hoping the rezoning of several township properties will help curb overdevelopment and discourage mobile home park owners from using their land for more expensive homes. The Township Council introduced an ordinance last…

  • Rezoning would protect mobile home residents

    Planning Board has 35 days to review council’s proposed ordinance BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – Officials are hoping the rezoning of several township properties will help curb overdevelopment and discourage mobile home park owners from using their land for more expensive homes. The Township Council introduced an ordinance last…

  • Holocaust memories live on 60 years later

    A youth spent in German concentration camps left an indelible mark BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer Last year at the age of 76, Sol Lurie finally summoned up the courage to go back to the “living hell” of his youth – the concentration camps where he spent four years during the…

  • Students learn how to make their own music

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG Edgar Middle School sixth-grader Keaton Brenneman works on his world music project on the software GarageBand for his music class. METUCHEN – General music classes at the Edgar Middle School haven’t been the same since the computer software GarageBand debuted last fall. “GarageBand is…

  • Daisy’s dish

    SCOTT PILLING staff Chef Daisy Martinez, who can be seen on her syndicated cooking show “Daisy Cooks,” was one of the celebrity chefs featured in the Simon Super Chefs Live event Saturday at the Menlo Park Mall.

  • Township woman dies, others injured in blaze

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – A lit cigarette was determined to be the cause of a fire last week that claimed the life of one resident. Kathy Rittweger, a 53-year-old resident of Stephenville Parkway, was the sole fatality in a May 17 fire that also injured her brother and…

  • Gentle activist honored for lifetime of service

    Racial and gender boundaries did not hold Ellen Hart Wales back BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Ellen Hart, a 1947 graduate of New Brunswick High School, had been very active in women’s basketball in high school and college. She was recently inducted into the New Brunswick High School Athletic Hall of…

  • Chivalry becomes theft at Dunkin’ Donuts

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – One second he’s holding the door open for her, the next he’s stealing her wallet. Police arrested and charged Diana Garrabrant, 37, of Colonia, with conspiracy to commit robbery, hindering apprehension, contempt of court and possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to…

  • School super says she’s ‘worth every penny’

    Edison’s Carol Toth started out as a teacher in district 37 years ago BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Carol Toth In 1969, Carol Toth, fresh from college, landed the first job of her profession, teaching English and social studies at Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Thirty-seven years later, she’s top school official…