Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Improvements for town parks, firehouses on tap
EDISON — More improvements are on the horizon in the township — $6 million more. If the Township Council gets its way, a new ordinance will be adopted at the meeting tomorrow night. The ordinance “authorizes the township to issue bonds to pay for the capital improvements,” council President Parag Patel said. “The improvements are…
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S. Main St. road project to be done by spring
BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — It may seem like common sense, but just to be sure, the Borough Council adopted an ordinance Feb. 7 prohibiting stopping, standing or parking in the area immediately adjacent to the new traffic island on south Main Street. The reasoning is simple, Mayor Edmund…
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An untimely farewell to the face of St. Joseph’s
David S. Gandy’s death left a gaping hole in the St. Joseph’s High School community and the community at large. The 40-year-old Gandy was the school’s Everyman. He was the admissions director and dean of students. He left an indelible mark on the lives of many of St. Joseph’s boys, faculty members and families. “Have…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Marty Silverman, of Jackson, sculpts decorative fountains and waterfalls for his business, The Fountain Garden, at the N.J. Flower, Garden & Outdoor Living Show at Raritan Center, Edison, over the weekend.
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Three women chosen as outstanding achievers
Greater Media Newspapers launches new awards program BY CLARE MARIE CELANO Staff Writer BY CLARE MARIE CELANOStaff Writer Chris Kelly staff Greater Media Newspapers Publisher Kevin Wittman presents an award to Dr. Ann Sweany (r), a finalist in the Greater Women of Central New Jersey awards program in the field of health care. Women of…
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Next stop, the baby-naming phase
John Aden Lewis I’ve recently passed through the life stage where I attended a peer’s wedding on average of once a month. I’m now in a whole new phase: one in which my peers are having babies. Having thus moved from the peer-wedding phase to the peer-baby phase (and soon to the peer-divorce phase, remarriage…
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Keepers of the river looking for new members
BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer Courtesy of ERNIE OROS One of many successful Woodbridge River Watch cleanups in the early 1990s. More than 1,000 tires have been fished out of the Woodbridge River and some five feeder streams throughout the township by River Watch volunteers. WOODBRIDGE — In its heyday in…
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Signs of spring in full bloom at garden show
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The cold snap on Sunday did not keep spring from making an appearance at the New Jersey Convention Center. That was the spot in the Raritan Center where plenty of light shone on the New Jersey Flower Garden & Outdoor Living Show.…
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SCOTT PILLING staff Artist Rosemarie Mazzei, of Distinguished Art Glass, shows some of her work to a customer at the state Flower, Garden & Outdoor Living Show in Edison over the weekend.
