Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Thieves hit during work hours

    EDISON — Police said two men tried to steal computers from a Northfield Avenue warehouse in broad daylight last week. Two suspects entered the warehouse sometime after 2 p.m. on Nov. 4 inquiring about job openings, and were told by a supervisor that only driving jobs were open, police reports said. A short time later,…

  • Don’t touch

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Metuchen police dispatcher Shane Young and Casey Donato, of Piscataway, act out a domestic violence scenario for the Metuchen Citizens Police Academy Nov. 4.

  • Rank of Eagle Scout doesn’t come easily

    Metuchen school focus of teenager BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — For East Brunswick’s David Thorne, providing the borough with a needed service should land him a lofty perch shortly. The 17-year-old has spent the past couple of months scraping and repainting the exterior of the Old Franklin School building…

  • Residents skeptical about open space buys

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The price of open space may be high, advocates of the open space tax say, but preserving quality of life is priceless. But Anthony Russomanno, a former member of the township’s Open Space advisory committee, and several other residents have questioned some…

  • Oak Tree dedication turns controversial

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Depending on whom you talk to, the dedication of the Oak Tree Pond site last week was either an open space preservation milestone or a developer’s political coup. Mayor George A. Spadoro stood on the site Nov. 4 and declared victory in…

  • Scream chases two robbers away

    EDISON — Police said a cashier’s scream was all it took to foil an attempted armed robbery last week. Patrolman Robert Dudash said a 47-year-old township woman was working behind the counter at Food and Spices of India on Woodbridge Avenue around 7 p.m. on Nov. 1 when two suspects entered the store. Both were…

  • Photo

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Metuchen Citizens Police Academy participants were shown techniques using bomb-sniffing dogs Nov. 4. Here, Bob Flaherty plays with K-9 Officer Torch of the New Brunswick Fire Department.

  • Car-theft suspects run out of luck

    EDISON — Three car theft suspects were in the wrong place at the wrong time and are now charged with stealing a township man’s car last week, police said. The three men were taken into custody without incident and each was charged with theft of a motor vehicle. Ismael Resto, 21, Perth Amboy; Bernard Quisumbing,…

  • Voting day in Metuchen

    Paranoid that the polls would be so overcrowded that I might not be able to vote, I set my alarm for 5 a.m. I showered and shaved, and by 5:45 I was approaching the mighty pillars of Moss School, ready to cast my ballot. There was an eerie early-morning silence, but when I opened the…