Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Planning and zoning info session on tap

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON — To deny a developer approval is not as easy as simply saying no. That and other pieces of information on the planning and zoning process are what officials hope to instill in residents when they hold a free public planning and zoning education session…

  • Compromise apparently reached for twp. attorney

    Rainone to stay on as tax appeal attorney at $145 per hour BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Edison EDISON — Rainone’s out. Lehrer’s in. Last week, Mayor Jun Choi issued a press release to announce the appointment of Zoning Board Attorney Jeffrey Lehrer as the law director, a position previously held…

  • Squabble over attorney seems to be at an end

    Proposed hourly rate under what many lawyers charge, Rutgers prof. says BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Edison Township could soon have a redevelopment attorney for the Ford/Hartz Mountain property. The Township Council recently tabled the appointment of the law firm McManimon & Scotland as attorneys for the redevelopment of the Ford…

  • Photo

    SCOTT PILLING staff During last weekend’s blizzard, Henry Birnbaum, of Edison, finally got a chance to wipe the cobwebs off his snow blower after experiencing the warmest January in recorded history. Some parts of Central Jersey saw almost 2 feet of snow accumulate in less than 24 hours.

  • Vietnam vet remembers the ‘poor man’s war’

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer SEAN DWYER Calvin Gross, of South Plainfield, speaks of his experience in Vietnam at the PNC Arts Center’s Vietnam Era Educational Center in Holmdel. It’s been almost 40 years since Calvin Gross first set foot in Vietnam to help fight what he calls “the poor person’s…

  • Super Pet Expo a howling success despite snowstorm

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer JAY BODAS Craig Rogers throws a Frisbee to his dog, Riggs, at the Coca-Cola Classic K-9 show at last weekend’s Super Pet Expo at the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center in Edison. EDISON — Whoever said you can’t teach an old dog new tricks never…

  • Pearly whites

    JEFF GRANIT staff Tubah Yahya, 11, Edison, has varnish applied to her bottom teeth during “Give Kids a Smile Day” at Middlesex County College in Edison.

  • County looking for bucks from vehicle ads

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK — The county’s transportation minibuses and vans will be getting a makeover for the first time in 30 years. The Board of Freeholders passed a resolution last week to change the name of Area Wide Transportation System (AWTS) to Middlesex County Area Transit (MCAT)…

  • Appointment of law director still debated

    Attorney has scheduling conflicts with council meetings BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Edison Township Council members are in a holding pattern as to whether or not they will soon appoint a new law director. Council members interviewed attorney Edwin Schmierer, of the firm Mason, Griffin & Pierson, of Princeton, last month…