Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Woodbridge to host state Senior Olympics in fall
BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Growing old is not for sissies. Those words — the title of California shutterbug Etta Clark’s photography book featuring senior athletes — may be on local residents’ lips this September when the 50-and-over set from throughout the state compete in a multitude of events…
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Planning Board has questions on Walgreens application
BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — What last month looked like a clean application to build a Walgreens in Colonia now has some potholes. No variances were requested by JSM @ St. Georges Avenue LLC of developer Jack Morris’ Edgewood Properties in Piscataway in its Planning Board application to build…
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MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Construction project manager, Henry Restrepo, Union, talks about the renovation process at the Route 27 firehouse in Edison March 5.
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Jewish residents upset over holiday change
School board to discuss Rosh Hashana holiday at March 22 meeting BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Controversy over the Edison school calendar has strained the line of separation between church and state, causing a break in communication between the religious and school communities. People are wondering how all religious…
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Comic project teaches literacy and leadership
BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer EDISON — Kids zoomed around the room and bounced off each other and random objects as if they were invulnerable. The setting was Amandla Crossing in Edison, a transitional housing facility for homeless single parents. The occasion, last Friday afternoon, was the Comic Book Project, an…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Middlesex County College volunteer Kevin McGowan aids Jonathan Torres, 7, in creating his own comic book at the Amandla Crossing transitional housing facility in Edison March 11. The Comic Book Project aims to foster literacy and citizenship. Story, page 12.
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SCOTT PILLING staff Raquel Lugo, 8, focuses her powers of concentration as she participates in the Comic Book Project at Amandla Crossing in Edison on Friday.
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Resident pursues televised board meetings
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — No problem. That is the response resident Irene Wall got from council members approaching Mayor George A. Spadoro to request that Planning and Zoning Board meetings be televised. Wall is one of many residents who has lobbied for televised meetings for years.…
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J&J, North Brunswick to partner on site’s future
Will collaborate on best use for 220-acre industrial area BY MELISSA CIFELLI Staff Writer BY MELISSA CIFELLIStaff Writer The 220 acres of land on the Johnson & Johnson property located on Route 1 is the proposed site for North Brunswick’s transit village. Plans for a transit village are one step closer for North Brunswick. The…
