Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Robbery suspect still at large
EDISON – Police are looking for a man they say pulled off an armed robbery at the Quick Convenient Store on Woodbridge Avenue last week. The man walked into the store at 10:20 p.m. on Sept. 21 and went to the back of the store to get a soda, Patrolman Robert Dudash said. After the…
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Close up
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Drepung Loseling monk Dawa Sonam pour grains of salt from a metal funnel during the creation of a mandala sand painting last week at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick. The monks worked on the painting over four days before ceremoniously depositing a portion of the sand in the…
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Fire chat
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Firefighters climb a ladder during a live fire demonstration at the Middlesex County Fire Academy’s new “burn building,” which was dedicated in a ceremony Saturday. The structure was built to resemble a strip mall with stores, a warehouse and second-floor apartments. It will allow firefighters to train with actual fires ignited with…
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Mayor wants overseer for cops, firefighters
Police chief and fire chief would have to report to public safety director BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer Edison Mayor George A. Spadoro is pushing for the appointment of a civilian public safety director “as soon as possible.” Whoever heads the re-established Department of Public Safety would supervise the…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Juliann Mullen, 4, shares a meal with her father, Patrick, and brother, John, 6, at Metuchen-based Kids in Production’s annual pasta dinner fundraiser at St. Francis Cathedral Saturday.
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From delivering pizzas to working for NASA
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG Szymon Smakolski, a graduate of Middlesex County College and now a student at New Jersey Institute of Technology, spent part of his summer as an intern with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. EDISON — Szymon Smakolski’s educational epiphany came one hot summer he…
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Residents help keep girl’s mission alive
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN — Jodi Salvo wants to continue the lemonade stand tradition that Alexandra “Alex” Scott started for pediatric cancer research. Alex was diagnosed with neuroblastoma in January 1997 at the age of 1. She was 8 years old when she died peacefully at home Aug. 1,…
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Mayor wants overseer for cops, firefighters
Police chief and fire chief would have to report to public safety director BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer Edison Mayor George A. Spadoro is pushing for the appointment of a civilian public safety director “as soon as possible.” Whoever heads the re-established Department of Public Safety would supervise the…
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Flynn, Sinagra vying for five-year clerk term
BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer A10-year veteran of the Middlesex County Clerk’s post will be challenged in the Nov. 8 election by a candidate whose past public service includes nine years on his local governing body. Incumbent Democrat Elaine Flynn, seeking a third five-year term, will face Republican Joe Sinagra, a…
