Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Dem challengers win local committee seats
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — There’s going to be a little change in the way neighborhoods are represented by the Democratic Party. Fifteen of 22 challengers for municipal committee slots won seats from the incumbents in the June 7 primary election. The Edison Democratic Organization has 156…
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Council rolls back church cemetery fee
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Owners of plots at the St. James Episcopal Church cemetery will no longer be financially buried by fees to maintain their plots. The Township Council unanimously adopted an ordinance at the June 8 meeting to roll back a $750 maintenance fee for…
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Political Web site comes down following primary
Webmaster says handlin-thompson.org brought bad publicity BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer BY KAREN E. BOWESStaff Writer Don’t bother to double-click. The Web site that at one time posed as the home page for Republican District 13 Assembly candidates Amy Handlin and Sam Thompson has been shut down by its creator, Middlesex and Union County…
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Tea time
CHRIS KELLY staff It’s tea time for Brianna Heard, 6, who checked out a new minibistro set fit for socializing at the Pool and Spa Show at the N.J. Convention and Expo Center in Edison.
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Walk ends in purse snatching
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — A 24-year-old township woman’s walk was interrupted last week when a couple of unknown men jumped out of a car, and took her handbag and everything in it. “It happened on June 9 at 12:20 a.m.,” said police Lt. Matthew Freeman. “She…
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Former superior court judge still friend to many
BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer PHOTO COURTESY OF RICHARD PLECHNER Richard Plechner shares a laugh with his friend, veteran war correspondent and author Robin Moore. Former State Superior Court Judge Richard Plechner, a man of many talents, is hailed by friend and foe alike. “My father and I were one of…
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Party head supports newcomer for mayor
Choi said he wanted to renew Edison Dem. Party, not topple it BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Jun Choi has become the newest cog in the Democratic Party machine he pledged to dismantle in his mayoral campaign. The 34-year-old newcomer defeated three-term incumbent Mayor George A. Spadoro…
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R.J. Lewis, of Dover, makes posing as a talking banana head look like a piece of cake at the recent Merri-Makers’ “An Evening of the Absurd,” at the N.J. Expo and Convention Center in Edison.
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Wachovia bank robbery linked to others in area
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — FBI officials think they are dealing with what they call a “serial robber.” After the Wachovia bank on Route 27 was robbed May 31 at 1:19 p.m., police initially had only a description and brief synopsis of the crime. Now they are…
