Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Local skate park on tap after a year of lobbying

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Local skaters weren’t doing kick flips when the skate park they were promised 18 months ago by local officials never seemed to materialize. But local administrators have already chosen a Woodbridge location for the park and a group of local skaters are now offering their own input on…

  • Accidental blaze badly damages home

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — A fire accidentally started by a blowtorch seriously damaged an Old Post Road home last week, police said. The May 13 blaze began at 2:20 p.m., when a plumber working on some pipes in the first-floor bathroom accidentally torched a wall, Patrolman Robert Dudash said. “While working…

  • Church recognized for Beringer House work

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer Careful to keep her balance, Holly Weakly puts the finishing touches on the walls and ceiling of Beringer House, Metuchen. METUCHEN — Bob Vila has nothing on the members of Oak Tree Presbyterian Church. Members of the church worked together for two months last fall to renovate the Beringer House,…

  • Use of photo in flier angers businessman

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — With the primary election for mayor only days away, the battle to win endorsements has heated up. Democratic mayoral candidate Jun Choi, who hopes to topple incumbent George A. Spadoro, has won a few endorsements. So has the mayor. But when a brochure was circulated last week…

  • Choi: Mayor too ‘chicken’ to debate on town TV

    JAY BODAS “George the Chicken” makes an appearance in front of the Edison Municipal Complex last week. Spadoro laughs at foe’s ‘political stunt,’ agrees to debate on radio BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer No, it was not just another chicken joke. Edison mayoral candidate Jun Choi was quite serious when he took his message…

  • Art exhibit features theme of wildest dreams

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The Edison Arts Society cordially invites you to take a very intense mind trip. That’s how Arts Society executive director Nina Hand said invitations to the organization’s latest exhibit, entitled Phantasmagoric, should read. The juried show is slated to start on June 5 at the Sheraton Edison…

  • Asian leaders back Spadoro in primary

    Challenger Jun Choi not concerned about recent endorsement BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Mayor George A. Spadoro sees an endorsement he got recently from several Asian leaders as a major campaign plus. However, Jun Choi, his opponent in the June mayoral primary, says it is a small token that…

  • Phony Web page stirs anger in Assembly race

    Democrat campaign worker says material was posted by accident BY KAREN E. BOWES Staff Writer A Democratic campaign worker who is a New Jersey publisher has been caught Web-handed. A Web site that posed as the campaign home page of Republican 13th District Assembly candidates Amy Handlin and Sam Thompson was discovered this week to…

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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.