Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • April showers bring more than May flowers

    John Aden Lewis There’s a time in late March and early April, just before the break of spring, when a type of chilly rain falls in Metuchen. I like to think of it as “hot chocolate and fuzzy slippers” rain. It’s a family-building rain, the type that discourages people from going out, and encourages them…

  • Builder accused of not paying contractors for school work

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — A builder has allegedly bilked the state schools construction system of $1 million in public funds and made his way to Florida, according to the state Attorney General’s Office. The accused builder, Manny Bana, 38, owner of Icon Construction Corp., Somerville, faces…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Bridget Pepe, 9, do-si-dos with her father, John, at the annual Little Darlins Spring Fling held at the Stelton Community Center April 1.

  • Car found ablaze days before theft reported

    Woman could face more than 20 years in jail for insurance fraud BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer An area woman has been charged with insurance fraud more than two years after she reported her car stolen from the Menlo Park Mall parking lot in Edison. A recent investigation by…

  • Women Helping Women provides lessons for life

    Metuchen organization a refuge for many in need for more than 3 decades BY DARCIE BORDEN Correspondent BY DARCIE BORDENCorrespondent METUCHEN — There’s some truth to the old adage “If Mom’s not happy, no one is happy.” “When a woman isn’t feeling well, the family suffers, and the community suffers,” said Arlene Klemow, development director…

  • WHW helps women turn problems into triumphs

    BY DARCIE BORDEN Correspondent BY DARCIE BORDENCorrespondent METUCHEN — Lorraine Seid knows that the worst stress is the stress she puts on herself. She struggled to comprehend the written word during her first year in college and racked her brain over mathematical word problems. The constant uphill climb took its toll on her self-esteem. She…

  • Operation Shoebox comes to Metuchen

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer METUCHEN — When Joseph Yuzuik came home from Vietnam in 1968, the 21-year-old Marine was greeted not with parades and praise, but taunts of ‘Baby killer.’ Yuzuik, 58, is glad things have changed since then. “Now, it’s OK to be a veteran,” he said.…

  • Oil spill could have been much worse, say officials

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — A barge leaked an estimated 20,000 gallons of home heating oil into the Arthur Kill last week, after it struck an object underwater near the Motiva facility in Sewaren. The barge, owned by Greater New York Marine Transportation, of Sewaren, struck an object under…

  • Towns lament proposed cuts to longtime program

    BY ANDREA OLIVIO Staff Writer BY ANDREA OLIVIOStaff Writer Budget cuts proposed at the federal level are threatening community development funds across the nation and hitting close to home in Middlesex County. The Bush administration has proposed the consolidation of some 18 federal grant programs, including the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program, into a…