Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Three male youths nabbed in area car theft
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — A mother who chased a teenager through Menlo Park Mall helped police recover a stolen vehicle and make three arrests. A 2000 Toyota Sienna minivan was reported stolen out of Rahway on May 10, Patrolman Robert Dudash said. Three days later, on…
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Residents get realistic look at cops’ work
Officers, borough workers make citizen police academy a success BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer JEFF GRANIT staff Henry Intriago receives a certificate for graduating from the Metuchen Civilian Police Academy at the Metuchen Police Department. METUCHEN — At his graduation last Wednesday night, Frank Casey was recognized for shooting a harmless…
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No summonses issued in accident
EDISON — A 19-year-old township man was seriously injured in an accident last week at the intersection of Brunswick and Plainfield avenues, police said. Eugenio Diaz was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick with multiple injuries to his head, neck, ankle and internal injuries after the May 11 accident, Patrolman Robert…
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Woman struck crossing Rt. 27
EDISON — Friday the 13th was an unlucky day for one township woman. Tai Mui Au Chan, 78, of Eardley Road, was attempting to cross Route 27 on Friday at about 4:50 p.m. when she was struck by a vehicle in what police said was a serious accident. “She was attempting to cross Route 27,…
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Police: recent mischief may be linked
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — One crime may have led to another. That’s what police said about the May 9 arrest of five male juveniles in connection with an unsolved rash of similar crimes the day before. “The incidents may or may not be linked, but we…
