Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Greater Media Newspapers purchases Latinos Unidos

    Greater Media Newspapers Inc. has announced the purchase of Latinos Unidos, a 25,000 circulation, monthly Spanish language newspaper serving Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Greater Media Newspapers currently publishes 12 weekly newspapers serving Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean counties, with a combined weekly circulation of 305,000. Latinos Unidos, founded and owned by Jackson resident Jorge A.…

  • New facility opens at Roosevelt Care Center

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer CHRISKELLYstaff Above is a living room area in the new 180-bed rehabilation and long-term facility at Roosevelt Care Center, Edison. EDISON — Patients at Roosevelt Care Center are getting their space — $21.3 million worth. After years of financial planning and patient and staff…

  • Firefighter burned in apt. blaze

    EDISON — A township firefighter sustained first- and second-degree burns battling a blaze at a Hidden Valley Road apartment complex last week, police said. Wayne Enoch was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he was treated and released, Patrolman Robert Dudash said. No other injuries were reported. Police arrived at…

  • 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…

  • Snowy mobiles

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

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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.

  • 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…

  • Tower trust fund is still missing in action

    Mayor has BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Edison residents who have questioned how much money is in a trust fund to repair the Edison Memorial Tower are making “political hay in a political season,” Mayor George A. Spadoro said. “These are just a few people raising issues because of…

  • We passed the referendum. Now what?

    John Aden Lewis Having spent several weeks basking in the warm glow of self-congratulation for voting to raise my own taxes in the name of bettering our local schools, I recently passed a few minutes asking myself: What’s this really going to cost me? The approval of the recent school bond referendum means that the…