Category: Sentinel-EDM News

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Metuchen’s Angela McBride cleans snow off of her car at the start of Saturday’s snowstorm.

  • Spadoro issues executive order on public notice

    Residents say mayor’s move is hypocritical, comes too little, too late BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer Critics of Edison Mayor George A. Spadoro don’t think much of his recent executive order to provide more public notice about pending development. Some even called the mayor’s move a public relations trick designed to protect his image…

  • MCC student, 11, ahead of time and peers

    BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Dakota Killpack, 11, walks the campus of Middlesex County College last week. He’s likely the youngest student ever in New Jersey’s community college system. On any given day while classes are in session at Middlesex County College, the sight of Patricia Killpack chaperoning…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff The start of last Saturday’s major snowstorm didn’t deter Damian Hartner and his friend, Marty, from taking a jog down Main Street in Metuchen.

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Nate Green,7, of Edison, lives dangerously as he takes a no-hands ride down Telegraph Hill at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel Jan. 24.

  • Wal-Mart critics focus on traffic implications

    Local attorney says appeal success is expensive, unlikely BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Some Edison residents here are hopeful that their idea of a traffic nightmare in the making will scare away the developer of a Wal-Mart superstore complex. The big box store, with an attached smaller retailer and…

  • Cop injured in crash on the mend

    EDISON — A township police officer who was seriously injured in a Dec. 28 car crash is recovering at home, police said. Patrolman Ioannis Mpletsakis, 25, also a township resident, suffered a head laceration and internal bleeding due to a ruptured aorta after his 2000 Honda Prelude went off the road and struck a concrete…

  • Roosevelt hospice center reopens in new location

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Patients of the Barbara E. Cheung Memorial Hospice Center can now face a difficult milestone in their lives in bright new surroundings that exude hope. The center, at Roosevelt Care Center, reopened its revamped facility Jan. 11, on grounds 300 feet from…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Last-minute shoppers make their way down Main Street in Metuchen as Saturday’s blizzard gets under way.