Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • 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,…

  • YMCA not just a place to pump some iron

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer METUCHEN — Your local YMCA is more than just a place to exercise. “There is a real mission with the Y to foster the whole person,” said cancer coach Maddie Hunter. “This particular Y in Metuchen has been a center of excellence nationally for its ability…

  • Seasonal arrangement

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Dancers from Kim’s Dancing Studio share a laugh before taking the stage at the second annual Chinese Mid-Autumn Celebration last weekend in Edison.

  • Man accused of breaking into home, accosting woman in bed

    BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer EDISON — Police arrested a Rahway man recently on charges that he broke into a woman’s home, stripped off his clothes and climbed into bed with her. Brandon W. Bullock, 21, was charged with burglary, criminal sexual contact, and theft in connection with the…

  • Woman cut by knife in parking-lot robbery

    BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer EDISON — Police are looking for two men who accosted a woman in the parking lot of a Koster Boulevard apartment complex. One of the men brandished a silver knife with a 3-inch blade and cut the 32-year-old woman on the chin, Patrolman Robert…

  • New police officer sworn in

    As one police officer leaves, another is sworn in to the Metuchen Police Department. Wayne Karalevich, 23, of North Brunswick, was appointed to the department on Sept. 6. He graduated from the Somerset County Police Academy in academy in June and received his bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Rutgers University. He is assigned to…

  • Teens assaulted, robbed on walk

    BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERGStaff Writer EDISON — Two township youths were beaten and robbed recently during a walk on Old Post Road, police said. The two male victims, ages 15 and 16, were walking on Old Post Road and Boulevard of Eagles around 6 p.m. on Sept. 9 when…

  • Cop who drove naked, totaled car, faces charges

    3 officers looking at charges in alleged coverup after accident BY ROCHELLE LAUREN GERSZBERG Staff Writer An Edison police officer who drove naked and crashed his BMW into a delivery truck has been suspended without pay and could lose his job, authorities said. The Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office recently charged Patrolman Ionnis Mpletsakis, 26, with…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Grace Fan, 6, Cathy Jin, 6, and Sara Zhong, 3, perform for the crowd at the second annual Chinese Mid-Autumn Celebration last weekend at Papianni Park in Edison.