Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Running careers don’t stop after graduation

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — K.C. Meehan ran cross country and track at the University of Virginia. But she decided to take a break from the sport and took a year and a half off after college. Eventually though, she picked up her running shoes again. “I was looking…

  • Average sewer bill could rise over $80 soon

    Hike needed for aging sewer infrastructure, township official says BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON — Like it or not, sewer rates are going up. Chief Financial Officer Ross Bobal said last week the administration is proposing a 56.7 percent hike in residential water rates, from .00176 cents per gallon, to…

  • Cops search for 3 men in robbery

    EDISON — Police are on the lookout for three men who robbed a construction company employee last week and tied up her and her children. The armed robbery occurred at 9:25 a.m. on Feb. 23 at the JM3 Construction Co. on Amboy Avenue, Lt. Matthew Freeman said. The three suspects all brandished firearms at the…

  • Hook, line and sinker

    SCOTT PILLING staff No, this isn’t the setup to a clip on “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” Craig Albertson, 10, holds a fishing rod while his father, Ken, tests its durability Friday during the New Jersey Boat Show at the N.J. Convention & Expo Center in Edison.

  • School spirit

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff A fan of the Metuchen Bulldogs shouts to the referee for a penalty during the GMC final basketball game, which the team ultimately lost to Colonia High School, at the RAC Feb. 23.

  • Couple’s new children’s book debuts in stores

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG Danny and Kim Adlerman, of Metuchen, with their dog, Hercules, 7, and their new children’s book “How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck?” METUCHEN — The inspiration for Danny and Kim Adlerman’s latest children’s book and song came during a family trip to Buffalo,…

  • Big plans in the works for the Dismal Swamp

    Proposed environmental center could be a source of learning and revenue BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Edison Wetlands Association Executive Director Robert Spiegel gives the Sentinel an exclusive tour of the Dismal Swamp on Saturday, outlining the plans to build an environmental education center and network of trails…

  • Edison’s fiscal health a matter of semantics

    Auditor, mayor disagree on how to best describe town BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Is Edison facing a deficit or not? It depends on whom you ask. Last week, Robert Morrison, of Hodulik & Morrison of Highland Park, presented his official township audit of Edison for the period ending Dec. 31.…

  • Dismal Swamp name dates back to year 1669

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON — So, what’s up with that name anyway? Some people may be asking that very question of the Dismal Swamp, which might soon see a lot of activity in the form of a new environmental education center and campgrounds on the site of the former…