Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Running for Courtney: one way to fight disease

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG Patti DeVito will run the Mayor’s Midnight Sun Marathon in Achorage, Alaska, on June 17 to raise money for neurofibromatosis (NF). DeVito (l) met Courtney Walsh, who has NF1, a year ago through her daughter. Running marathons was not Patti DeVito’s thing, until she…

  • Brush fire due to dry weather

    EDISON – Another brush fire turned the sky black over the township last weekend. The blaze was reported at 1:57 p.m. on May 6 in the area of Olympic Drive. Members of the Edison and Sayreville fire companies responded to the fire, which could be seen for miles, said Sgt. Robert Dudash. The state Forest…

  • BOE adopts amended budget, OKs cuts

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – Board of Education members voted unanimously Monday to accept the Township Council’s recommended $1.5 million cuts to the school budget and adopted an amended budget. The cuts will drop the capital outlay budget from $8.7 million to $7.2 million. School officials have decided to…

  • Two residents accosted, robbed by man with gun

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – Police are looking for a male in his late teens, of either Hispanic or Indian origin, in connection with two alleged armed robberies recently. Both incidents occurred at around 9 p.m. on May 1 and May 3 on Eisenhower Drive and Kilmer Road north,…

  • A cut above

    CHRIS KELLY staff Metuchen’s Taylor Delaney, 10, has her hair cut by Danielle Bongard, co-owner of All About U Salon & Spa, Metuchen, during a cut-a-thon for Jonathan Verges on May 6.

  • Groundbreaking

    JAY BODAS Metuchen’s Main Street traffic had a hard time last week as road improvements were being done. The work relates to a new left-hand-turn signal recently installed by the county for traffic making a left turn from Main Street onto Amboy Avenue.

  • Rule of thumb

    SCOTT PILLING staff Students at the Benjamin Franklin Elementary School in Edison got to trade in textbooks for trowels May 3 when they planted impatiens and other plants in their new garden. Here, student Jordan McPherson examines a flower before he plants it. Materials were donated by the Hilton Garden Inn, Edison.

  • JFVS announces elder care now available

    The Jewish Family and Vocational Service of Middlesex County announces the availability of an elderly care program for those with memory loss and varying degrees of dementia. Transportation is provided. Fees are charged on a sliding scale. Program includes meals, snacks and activities. For more information, call (732) 777-1940.

  • Choir rallies for teacher and her ailing husband

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – Diane Wions, in the face of great adversity, is still smiling. Though she usually would be up on stage with them, last Friday night the J.P. Stevens High School vocal music teacher and choir director sat in the audience as current and past members…