Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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TOM SPERDUTO Timothy Medel, 17, of Sayerville, performs at the Forum Theater, Metuchen ,during the Youth Poetry Grand Slam Finals recently.
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EWA faults state for PCB-tainted concrete
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – While state Department of Environmental Protection officials have mobilized to find out why tainted concrete left the Ford site, Edison Wetlands Association’s Executive Director Robert Spiegel said the agency is partly to blame. “In the rush to redevelop the approximately 10,000 brownfield sites estimated…
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Freeholders vote in a 4 percent salary raise
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK – As cost of living goes up, so does a freeholder’s salary The Board of Freeholders recently voted to increase their annual salaries by 4 percent to $23,437 for their part-time jobs. The freeholder director will get an additional $1,000 a year. “The price…
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Irish eyes
TOM SPERDUTO One-year-old Joshua Pelech and his mother, Melissa, both of Woodbridge, enjoy the 33rd annual Woodbridge St. Patrick’s Day parade on Sunday.
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Four running for three seats on school board
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – A fixture at Board of Education meetings, Eileen Frowenfeld has decided to trade her seat in the audience for one on the dais. “Running for the board will give me the opportunity to bring an unique blending of experience, education and strong desire to…
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In the Service
Army Reserve Maj. Jennifer L. Kehres-Dolicker, a communications officer with 19 years of military service, has been mobilized and activated for a future deployment to an undisclosed overseas location in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. She is normally assigned to the 78th Division in Edison. A 1982 graduate of Edison’s J.P. Stevens High School, Kehres-Dolicker…
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On Campus
Seth Kallman, a graduate of Metuchen High School, is the recipient of a Rush Rhees Scholarship at the University of Rochester, N.Y., where he is a freshman. The scholarship, which is renewable each year, is given to high-ability students who score at least 1350 on the SAT or a composite of 31 or better on…
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State DEP scrambles to unravel PCB mystery
Ford has less than a month to remove tainted concrete from sites BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer With several probes under way to determine how tainted concrete from the former Ford property was sold to a local developer, answers are now being sought on how the material left the plant in…
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TOM SPERDUTO Nancy Scharff, contemporary Christian artist, singer, songwriter, musician and worship leader, performs at the Reformed Church of Metuchen recently.
