Category: Sentinel-EDM News

Jamesburg coaches are first to be selected in Middlesex County BY SETH MANDEL Staff Writer BY SETH MANDELStaff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Sharon Raymond, of Edison’s Stelton Baptist Church, and Connie Mente, Edison, pitch in to load up Thanksgiving boxes at St. James Episcopal Church on Friday. The supplies will be given to the needy…

The Woodbridge Township School District recently won three awards at the annual school boards convention held in Atlantic City. John F. Kennedy Memorial High School was honored by “Project Remembrance.” Social studies teacher Todd Kaul led students in researching and writing about the veterans of Woodbridge Township that did not return from Vietnam. The 200-page…

Edison Deputy Police Chief Brent N. Papi and Menlo Park Mall officials look on as Mayor George A. Spadoro receives a proclamation of thanks from mall manager Don Ford at the Nov. 18 opening of the Edison police substation at the mall.

Critics and proponents try to find new ways to preserve land BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Adversaries of the open space tax have something in common with proponents. Like proponents, they are not against saving open space. They are just against taxing for it. And now that Edison voters…

Health Department to begin calling those on waiting list BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer The wait will soon be over for some 400 at-risk Edison residents who waited in line on a rainy day for flu shots about a month ago and never got them. The township health department…

JEFF GRANIT staff Metuchen quarterback Marcus Farris tries to escape the grasps of a South River defender during the Bulldogs’ state playoff loss to the Rams on Saturday in South RIver.

BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff After sitting dry for years, the “Light Dispelling Darkness” fountain in Roosevelt Park in Edison has been restored. EDISON — After many years of inactivity, a treasured old relic was turned on Monday. Roosevelt Park’s historic fountain, Light Dispelling Darkness, is…

German immigrant spent two years in Hitler youth camp during WWII BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer METUCHEN — Like most people, Ludwig Knapp, a Clark resident who emigrated from Germany to America in 1954, has a story. Unlike most people, Knapp’s story includes growing up in Nazi Germany, enrolled in a…

Medical building didn BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The Township Council has reversed a Zoning Board of Adjustment decision that would have allowed a 2.5-story medical building on James Street near JFK Medical Center. James Street residents, who fought the Zoning Board approval for the 8,400-square-foot building,…