Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Story of blind, homeless dog touched many people

    Donations for 6-yr.-old dog poured in from all over the country BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer Chance Bob Cosgrove was tired that Saturday. He and his wife were finishing up an afternoon of shopping and he wanted to go home. “My wife said, ‘We have to go to PetSmart.’…

  • Fund will take donations for other animals in need

    WOODBRIDGE — The overwhelming response from people in the area and around the country to the plight of a blind, homeless dog surprised township officials. The “Chance Fund” raised more than $4,000 as of last count, said township Health Director Dennis Green. Chance, who has since been adopted into a permanent home, has received all…

  • Inspiration for book born during illness

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer Pamela Swallow It all began at the Moss Elementary School in Metuchen. “I had authors come in and tell me that I was really funny and I should write a book,” said Pamela Curtis Swallow, an author of children’s and teens’ books, and the Moss School…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Bagpipers from The Caledonian Pipe Band of Kearny play for the crowd at The Winter Festival Parade in Metuchen Sunday.

  • Police substation up and running at mall

    BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer SCOTT PILLING staff Edison police officers (l-r) Chuck Zundel and Ted Hamer let the presence of police be known as they patrol Menlo Park Mall. EDISON — Holiday shoppers can breathe a little easier since the township police department opened a substation at the…

  • Art celebration

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff YMCA Counselor Derrion Aberdeen practices “Silent Night” with Ravanne Wolff (L) and other kids during YMCA’s second annual Children’s Art Celebration in Metuchen, Friday.

  • Bomb threat closes theater

    EDISON — A bomb threat called into the township police department closed Menlo Park Mall’s movie theater, Cineplex Odeon, on Nov. 25. “A call made to police dispatch said that there was a bomb in the theater that would go off at midnight,” Patrolman Robert Dudash said. Officers responded to the call and spoke to…

  • Attendant hurt in robbery

    EDISON — Police are looking for two men who they say robbed the Raceway gas station on Route 1 and struck an attendant with a flashlight. The incident occurred at 1:05 a.m. on Nov. 22 at the station at 236 Route 1, Lt. Matthew Freeman said. One of the suspects approached the 63-year-old attendant from…

  • Artists at work

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Jade Williams, 8, and Shyanne Wolff, 9, make cards from scratch during the YMCA’s second annual Children’s Art Celebration in Metuchen.