Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Woman’s determination to honor father pays off

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Maybe it was the electric blue shirts. Since 2001, the ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or commonly referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease) Association has held its Walk to D’Feet ALS at Liberty State Park in Jersey City. This year, the kickoff event for the…

  • Roosevelt Care Center chief to step down soon

    Resignation comes just months after CEO Thomas Chase was hired BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Thomas Chase EDISON — The $40 million new look Roosevelt Care Center is getting right now isn’t the only change in the works. A little shuffling is going on again in top administrative positions.…

  • DEP, firms reach accord to clean up Hatco site

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Cleanup of a 16-acre plume of contaminated ground water in Fords could come soon, courtesy of $13.2 million in site-remediation money. The Hatco Corp., a chemical company once owned and operated by W.R. Grace & Co., will enter into a state Department of Environmental…

  • Making strides

    Greater Media Newspapers publisher Kevin Wittman presents a $5,000 check to American Cancer Society representatives Rose Ann Weber (center) and Kimberly Gittines on April 19. The donation was the result of proceeds from the Greater Women of Central New Jersey program and has been designated for the Cancer Society’s “Making Strides Against Breast Cancer” fund.…

  • Greater Media Newspapers wins 29 NJPA awards for ’04

    Greater Media Newspapers has won 26 editorial, photography and advertising awards in the New Jersey Press Association’s Better Newspaper Contest for 2004. The group tally included 12 awards for outstanding photography, nine awards for classified advertising, one award for retail advertising, and four awards for reporting. Photographer Jeff Granit won three first-place awards in the…

  • Youths caught with stolen car at mall

    EDISON — Two juvenile males were caught with a stolen car in the Menlo Park Mall parking lot on Saturday. Police on patrol at 6:13 p.m. noticed that a car in the Menlo Park Mall parking lot had a license plate taped onto the car, according to police reports. Police ran a plate check on…

  • Man arrested for assault on cop

    EDISON — A disorderly conduct incident turned into a fight between police and one township man early Saturday morning. Police were called to a home on Columbus Avenue on April 23 at 12:40 a.m. on a noise complaint, Patrolman Robert Dudash said. “Neighbors reported that a group of people were standing in front of a…

  • Time for a change in town hall, says GOP

    Republicans running uncontested council slate in June primary BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Edison Republicans are gearing up for an election race they hope will restore a two-party system of checks and balances to local government. The Edison Republican Organization is running four candidates for the council seats up…

  • Photo

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Ryan Kaczynski and Kevin Lankey, of the J.P. Stevens High School Theater Company, Edison, entertain the audience at the school’s Cabaret Night last week with their rendition of “Who’s on First.”