Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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A life of service fueled by an unshakeable faith
Many mourn the loss of much-loved Sister Mary Louise Kwiatkowski BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE – For 69 years, Sister Mary Louise Kwiatkowski led a life of service to others. She left this world on Valentine’s Day at the age of 85. “She was much younger than me, but I…
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Purse snatchers prey on two elderly women
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – First cars, now purses. During the same week police are investigating a swath of damaged vehicles in one area of town, they are also trying to see if there is a connection between two purse snatchings in two different locations. A 75-year-old Woodbridge resident…
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Whoosh!
JEFF GRANIT staff Dancers interpret the tornado that would hoist Dorothy and her house away to the strange and wonderful world of Oz during the musical ‘The Wiz,’ performed last week at J.P. Stevens High School, Edison.
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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…
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State DCA recommends changes for police dept.
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer This is the first story of a two-part look at the state Department of Community Affair’s review of the police department. The second story will be published in next week’s Edison/Metuchen Sentinel. METUCHEN – Some of the same issues addressed in the 1980 state Department of…
