Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Early tower fund records still MIA

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Financial records dating back more than six years for the Edison Memorial Tower trust fund may have been destroyed. And residents here who have repeatedly asked for complete records on the fund aren’t happy. “I asked specifically for all the records pertaining…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Borough resident Stanley Lease (r) gets tough with a drunken driver played by Metuchen police dispatcher Shane Young on March 16. The exercise is part of the Metuchen Citizens Police Academy program.

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff The Union County Police and Fire Pipes and Drums perform “Amazing Grace” during the Edison Irish flag-raising ceremony last week.

  • Solar-panel funding hits snags

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Right now prospects are looking dim for getting energy-saving solar panels on the schools. “Basically the board of public utilities [BPU] reneged on the deal,” said schools Business Administrator Daniel Michaud. “They were supposed to pick up 60 percent of the total…

  • Officials upset over calendar bias claims

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The controversy over the school calendar has sparked a “religion versus education” debate that has engulfed the community. Since the Board of Education’s meeting on March 3 — during which changes to the calendar were proposed to take at least one day…

  • High steppers

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Riverdancers have nothing on Alison Fitzsimmons (l), of Edison, and Nicole McKeever, of Jackson, as they performed Irish dancing at the St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Edison last week.

  • Easter bounty

    SCOTT PILLING staff Eric Davideit, 2, whose birthday will be on Easter Sunday, enjoys the Easter egg hunt at the Edgar School in Metuchen on Saturday.

  • Life in the Woodbridge woods comes to an end

    Former homeless woman talks about life in squatters BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Sharon Simon did not build the famous “gingerbread house” township bulldozers razed last week, but she did live there — along with the home’s owner, Pink Bellamy, who has become something of a local icon in…

  • Masks give breath of life to injured animals

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Firefighter Thomas Shjarback pulled a Rottweiler out of a house fire in January. The family pet didn’t survive. Shjarback had seen five animals die in fires during his 17 years on the job. He felt helpless equipped with only human oxygen masks…