Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Senior program gets boost from state grant

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The senior population just got little help from their state legislator friends — $55,000 worth. The money, in the form of a grant from the state Department of Human Services, will go to the township’s Senior Outreach Services (SOS), established in 2001…

  • 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…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff J.P. Stevens’ Brittany Lobell ropes a fifth-inning single during the Hawks’ hard-fought 1-0 win over Monroe on Saturday in the opening round of the GMC Tournament in South Plainfield.

  • Armed robber flees; employee unharmed

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Police are looking for a man who robbed the Quick Chek on Talmadge Road and made off with $750. A store employee at the Quick Chek at 266 Talmadge Road was behind the cash register at 2:30 a.m. on May 23 when he noticed someone milling around…

  • St. James cemetery fees to be rolled back

    Mayor: Fee is too much of a burden for seniors BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer JERRY WOLKOWITZ A headstone at the St. James Episcopal Church’s historic Piscatawaytown Burial Grounds on Woodbridge Avenue, Edison, is masked by brush. EDISON — Being laid to rest in the St. James Episcopal Church cemetery may get a lot…

  • Camp Kilmer slated to become recreation hub

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — A piece of U.S. Army history will soon become a township recreation treasure. The federal government recently deeded the township 5.6 acres of the former Camp Kilmer, an Army facility built in the late 1930s that many European and Hungarian refugees traversed before settling in Edison. Camp…

  • Florists reflect on their lifetime love of flowers

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Since 1927 the Woodbridge Flower Shoppe has been providing township residents the opportunity to offer their families, friends and even enemies tokens of love, apology and sympathy. But like so many of the township’s small businesses that thrived in Woodbridge during previous decades, the florist has closed up…

  • Central Ave. revamp could begin this fall

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer METUCHEN — Central Avenue will soon be the center of a fresh round of reconstruction, slated to begin as early as this fall. Plans to improve and repair the street were presented at a Borough Council meeting in borough hall on May 16. “Approximately $250,000 will…