Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Metuchen pitches in to help Katrina refugees

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Karen Sherbine, of Metuchen, rushes to the podium as she is called to receive recognition from My Daughter’s Keeper for helping Hurricane Katrina victims who moved to New Jersey. METUCHEN — Cherie Brown and her six children fled their home shortly before Hurricane…

  • Swearing in

    Rochelle Lauren Gerszberg Edison Mayor Jun Choi (l) sits with Gov.-elect Jon Corzine before Choi is sworn in as mayor on Sunday.

  • ‘Nutcracker’ show annual family affair

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — Members of a local dance company played to a packed school recently for their 10th anniversary performance of “The Nutcracker.” The dancers are members of Ms. Doreen’s Fabulous Feet School of Dance and Gymnastics, 16 Jersey Ave. “Three of the dancers have been in…

  • Thief takes Christmas Eve collection money

    EDISON –– A basket filled with money was stolen from Guardian Angels Church on Christmas Eve, police said. The church had a Mass that evening between 4:55 ,and 5:15 p.m., Sergeant Robert Dudash said. “And at the conclusion of the Mass, the offerings were stolen out of a basket left on the altar.” The amount…

  • Kitten who attacked workers was rabid

    EDISON — Township health department officials want anyone who visited the animal shelter in mid-December to contact them. A homeless orange tabby kitten brought to the shelter tested positive for rabies, after it attacked several shelter employees, a shelter worker said. A township resident brought the kitten to the shelter on Municipal Boulevard shelter on…

  • Photo

    KATHY CHANG Ed and Linda Fox’s 1898 Queen Anne Victorian home on Graham Avenue in Metuchen was part of a Holiday House Tour. Story, page 3.

  • Edison vet devotes her life to cats in need

    BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer EDISON — Reaching Dr. Jan Rottenberg is almost an impossible task. The busy veterinarian spends much of her time doing emergency surgeries and seeing her beloved patients from early morning to late night and even holidays. Just Cats Veterinarian on Route 27 in Edison…

  • Municipal 2006 budget adopted in narrow vote

    EDISON — The Township Council recently adopted a $100.6 million budget in a split vote that calls for an 11-cent hike in the municipal tax rate. The council voted 4-3 on Dec. 22 to approve the $100,602,776 budget, an increase of $3,415,955 from last year. The municipal purposes tax rate will rise to 84.4 cents…

  • Choi names new township attorney

    BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer EDISON — Mayor-elect Jun Choi has tapped an award-winning lawyer to serve as township attorney. Edward Schmierer, of the Mason Griffin law firm, received the state League of Municipalities “Municipal Attorney of the Year” award in 2003. He has served as the Princeton Township…