Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Youth drinking focus of town hall meeting
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – The statistics are sobering. Over 11 percent of 12-year-olds have consumed alcohol. By 13, the percentage doubles. By 15, it’s over 50 percent. In a culture where a person can smoke cigarettes, vote and join the Army before they can say “this Bud’s for…
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CHRIS KELLY staff Frank DeToro, executive chef of the Edison Sheraton Hotel at Raritan Center, prepares to plate the seaweed salad used to bed his sesame-crusted tuna recipe during the Edison Chamber of Commerce’s ninth annual Taste of Middlesex, held last week at the Pines Manor in Edison.
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Sing it
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Mr. Ray in concert at the Metuchen Forum Theater along with guitar player and bandmate Lee Scott Howard during the Friday concert.
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Cement donkey filched from resident’s lawn
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – In the classic children’s tale “Winnie the Pooh,” the beleaguered donkey Eeyore mopes about his daily life, a rain cloud in his heart and a tail between his legs that never stays attached to his stuffed animal body. Apparently, his real life equivalent doesn’t…
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Experts put PCB risks in perspective
PCBs are ‘everywhere,’ even in food, scientist says BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Are you at risk?With 11 sites, including a proposed Fairfield Inn on New Durham Road, Edison, now confirmed to have received concrete from the former Ford Motor Co. plant tainted with low levels of polychlorinated biphenyls, many residents…
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Falcons hope to return to championship form
BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer BY SHAWN LAYTONStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Senior John Moll is back to lead the Falcons this spring as they look to contend for both conference and state titles in volleyball. METUCHEN – The Saint Joseph High School boys volleyball team opens the 2006 season with a 3:45 p.m. home…
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JEFF GRANIT staff J.P. Stevens High School student Jackie Bianco, as Addapearl, the good witch, excitedly holds the name “Dorothy” in her hand during the school’s performance of “The Wiz” on March 24.
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JFK is looking to reload rather than rebuild
BY MIKE McDONALD Staff Writer BY MIKE McDONALDStaff Writer The John F. Kennedy boys tennis team began tryouts on March 1 and heading into this week’s preseason action, the final starting lineup remained a work in progress. That should be an indication of the type of task head coach Sharon DiLonardo has been dealing with…
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Old landfill slated to undergo transformation
Dump off Meadow Road closed 16 years ago BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Several years from now, residents could be watching birds and launching canoes on a site that once housed Edison’s rotting, stinking garbage. Plans have been under way now for several years to convert the Edison landfill for public…
