Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Land donation paves way for path

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The township is one mile closer to seeing its dream of a seaport village become a reality. Summit Associates and Federal Business, the owners of the Raritan Center, have handed over the rights to a mile of land that extends from the…

  • Edison officials look for bucks for CIC and Muller tracts

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — It took 15 years and a tough fight to transform the former Chemical Insecticide Corporation (CIC) site and the surrounding land from toxic to squeaky clean. And now officials are eyeing the site that was once considered a danger to the 77,000…

  • Cookout ends with stabbing

    METUCHEN — What started as a harmless conversation between father and son at their High Street residence on the afternoon of May 30 ended with a knife in the elder man’s back. The son, Michael Kimler, 43, is charged with attempted murder and faces two weapons offense charges after allegedly stabbing his 70-year-old father four…

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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.

  • 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…

  • Wife arrested in gory dismemberment murder

    Husband BY COLLEEN LUTOLF and JENNIFER DOME Staff Writers BY COLLEEN LUTOLF and JENNIFER DOMEStaff Writers Police arrested the wife of a murdered Woodbridge man over a year after his body parts was discovered floating in three separate suitcases on Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, the N.J. Attorney General’s Office said. State police arrested Melanie McGuire, 32,…

  • Local YMCA offers more than just fitness

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer METUCHEN — For many residents, the local YMCA is not just a recreation center, but part of an extended family. “I would not be who I am today without the Y,” said Jessica Rehfeld, 19, of Iselin. She is a psychology student at Fairleigh Dickinson. Rehfeld…

  • Absurdly delicious

    ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Madeline Lynch, of Piscataway, tempts her taste buds with some Italian cuisine, courtesy of chef Ron Paulino, of Bridgewater, at the Merri-Makers’ caterers “An Evening of the Absurd” last week at the N.J. Expo and Convention Center in Edison.

  • Drug scam leads to assault and robbery

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — When an out-of-state man tried to buy beer and drugs from someone at a motel, he ended up getting threatened, restrained and robbed. The victim, a 24-year-old male from Houston, Texas, was staying at the Edison Motor Lodge, 570 Route 1, on…