Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Boy shows compassion at tender age of 8

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer PHOTO COURTESY OF JENNIFER LEWIS-HALL Josh Hall, 8, has raised $114 for victims of Hurricane Katrina. METUCHEN — Following in his brother’s footsteps, Joshua (Josh) Hall, 8, has taken his own initiative to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. “He always wants to be…

  • Bullying going hi-tech, a former victim says

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Metuchen resident Samantha Hahn, 20, a National American Miss Teen winner, spoke to Edison students last week about the effects of bullying in schools. EDISON — Verbal abuse. Physical abuse. Concussions from being thrown off a school bus and through a Plexiglas window.…

  • Mayor asks for time to implement his plans

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON — Give us a chance. That’s what Mayor Jun Choi said last week after his State of the Township Address, in which he presented a number of ideas he wants to implement. Choi gave the address Jan. 30 after the Chamber of Commerce dinner at…

  • Local Elks’ mission is doing good work

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer Metuchen METUCHEN — The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (BPOE) has evolved from its drinking club days as the Jolly Corks into a primarily charitable organization. And serving others is what the members of Elks Lodge No. 1914 here do best. “We average $25,000, which…

  • Art has been man’s passion for 50 years

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG Artist Jack Shapiro stands with one of his paintings of singer, athlete, actor and civil rights leader Paul Robeson and a bronze sculpture of Robeson at Metuchen Art Works in Metuchen. METUCHEN — Eighty-eight-year- old artist Jack Shapiro doesn’t much care if some don’t…

  • 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)…

  • Man nabbed after chase that ends on bridge

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — Police recently arrested a Henry Street man on an outstanding drug warrant, but not before he led them on a chase that left him dangling over a bridge, police said. Officers went to the home of Daniel Peace, 19, on Jan. 24 to arrest…

  • Photo

    TOM SPERDUTO Edison Township fire, police and rescue members responded to a large brush fire in the marshes behind the New Jersey Exposition Center, Sunfield Road, Friday. At one point, firefighters from numerous neighboring towns, including Sayreville, East Brunswick, New Brunswick and Metuchen, assisted in containing a blaze that could be seen for miles. See…