Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Officials: Saving land will be a ‘challenge’

    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…

  • Fine art

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Michael Bransfield stands with some of his paintings, which are on display at the Metuchen Art Works gallery through Dec. 3.

  • Township to get full allotment of flu shots

    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…

  • Cost of Edison Memorial Tower repairs debated

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff EDISON -— Preserving the past can be an expensive future endeavor. And saving the Edison Memorial Tower is a major issue officials have grappled with for some time. “The township budget is very tight this year and we have no dedicated…

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    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.

  • Cancer patients may seek info about clinical trials

    The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, is offering more than 130 clinical trials. Most cancer clinical trials are medical studies that test new treatments and new ways of using existing treatments for cancer. Researchers use these clinical trials to answer questions about a treatment and to make sure it is safe and effective.…

  • Optician arrested on sex charge

    METUCHEN — Police arrested a longtime borough businessman and resident after he allegedly made inappropriate sexual overtures to a customer last week. Harold “Buddy” Suter, 62, was charged with criminal sexual contact at 3:30 p.m. on Nov. 1, police said. Officer David Liantonio said a 22-year-old Metuchen female said she visited Suter’s Optique Unique (formerly…

  • No injuries in apt. complex fire

    EDISON — An apartment fire temporarily displaced residents of a Minebrook Road complex early last week, police said. Patrolman Robert Dudash said the resident of one apartment reported hearing a loud bang coming from the area of the refrigerator in her kitchen just before noon on Nov. 1. A smoke and fire condition quickly developed,…

  • Open space, historic preservation defeated

    Residents debate town BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Voters in Edison said no on Nov. 2 to 15 more years of using taxpayer money to preserve open space and also nixed a measure to preserve history. The vote to extend the current open space tax of 1 cent for…