Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • 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…

  • Click it, or get a ticket

    New Jersey police officers will crack down on seatbelt scofflaws with a zero-tolerance policy for drivers who don’t wear their seatbelts from May 23 through June 5. The effort is part of a nationwide Click It or Ticket campaign. All drivers not wearing a seatbelt will be issued a ticket. “High visibility enforcement saves lives,”…

  • Bank robber on the loose

    EDISON — A man robbed the Wachovia Bank on Route 27 Tuesday afternoon and fled with an undetermined amount of cash, police said. A black male in his early 20s — about 6 feet tall with corn rows in his hair, no facial hair and wearing a skull cap and black T-shirt — entered the…

  • Jersey Guys apologize to Choi for remarks

    Mayor, challenger tell shock jocks they will debate on their station BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer What started out as a public apology ended up being a debate challenge. Edison Democratic mayoral hopeful Jun Choi, a Korean-American, got an apology from New Jersey 101.5 FM radio personalities Craig Carton…

  • Plans to revamp Kin-Buc Landfill under way

    SCOTT PILLING staff The former Kin-Buc Landfill, Meadow Road, Edison, will become a site of Raritan River revitalization and preservation. Environmentalist doesn’t see need for third party in conservation BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer A plan has been hatched to take the Kin-Buc Landfill from toxic dump to environmental triumph. But what federal Environ-mental…

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    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff The family of fallen Edison Fire Department Capt. John Lindquist takes a moment to remember their loved one, who died in the line of duty, at a Memorial Day service at the Edison Municipal Complex on Sunday.

  • New firehouse won’t cost a penny to build

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Officials are viewing the coming of a new firehouse and police substation as a lucky seventh in the southern portion of the township. The reason why they see the upcoming new facility as a charmed one — it’s not going to cost…

  • Uncut grass at tower irks former official

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — A township source of pride became a bit of an embarrassment for one former official recently. When the Art Deco Society, from Washington, D.C., visited the Thomas Alva Edison Memorial Tower on Christie Street last week, former Councilman William Stephens said the…