Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Menlo Park kids hit the wall during gym class

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Menlo Park School students are climbing a wall. No, it’s not because they’re antsy. It’s because a new wall for “project adventure-type” physical education activities was installed at the school recently. The 8-foot-high wall is a “traversing wall,” instead of a high…

  • Funny face

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Five-year-old Michael Wales claps while his friend, Beau Pearson, makes like Groucho Marx during last Friday’s Harvest Festival fund-raiser at the James Monroe School.

  • Old gas stations sites in need of redevelopment

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — One blighted area in the township is getting closer to beautification, even if it means the property in question must first be condemned. Though officials don’t know yet exactly what will replace the former sites of two gas stations on less than…

  • Man nabbed on drug charges

    METUCHEN — Police arrested an Edison man on drug charges last week. Gary Shebece, 37, was charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, driving while intoxicated and hindering. Officer David Liantonio said an officer on patrol noticed a man and woman sitting in a car at Myrtle Park just after…

  • Election ’04

    GOP candidates look to change Democratic rule BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer Alan Grossman Two Republican newcomers are challenging the two Democratic incumbents for the two, three-year terms on the Borough Council. The Republican candidates, Jennifer Lacy and Patrick Lacsina, said it’s time to change the one-party rule in town hall.…

  • Butterfly refuge sits in the middle of Sewaren

    BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Monarch butterflies seen fluttering along roadsides and back yards often mark the unofficial start of autumn, even before the leaves begin to change color. But this year is different. The striking monarch, which can be seen leaving orange and black flashes through the air…

  • Local man held in cop assault

    EDISON — Police arrested a township man following a dispute with his girlfriend last week, when he became violent with police officers, according to police. Sean Kaiser, 22, was charged with two counts of aggravated assault on a police officer, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, said Patrolman Robert Dudash. Dudash said patrolmen Jason Vickery and…

  • Do the twist

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Brian Foshee, alias “Bhappie,” presents Olivia Morales, 6, of Edison with a balloon animal at the James Monroe School Harvest Festival Friday.

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