Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Climbing the walls

    CHRIS KELLY staff Michael Xu, 6, takes a climb on the new climbing wall in gym class at Menlo Park School, Edison, last week.

  • Sylvia Engel,

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff vice president of the Grace Reformed Church Consistory; Joan Bauer, chairwoman of the church’s property committee; and Sharon Williams, consistory secretary, chat about the Edison church’s 50th anniversary at the foot of its steps Sunday.

  • Binding the wounds of Vietnam no easy task

    California couple takes to the road each year with BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer When John Anderson came home from the Vietnam War in the late 1960s, he didn’t talk about his experiences as an Army combat medic. “Like most Vietnam veterans, he put it away,” said his wife,…

  • Under attack

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Bob Moreira comes under Silly String attack from 8-year-olds Nicholas Ferrara and Brad Herprich at Saturday’s Metuchen Country Fair.

  • Public’s concerns have been heard, Hartz says

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON – Traffic and the future redevelopment of the old Ford Motor Co. site here were the primary concerns of residents who attended a meeting hosted by Hartz Mountain Industries last week. “Traffic is what people are most worried about,” Hartz spokesman Ronald Simoncini…

  • Historic landmarks protection delayed again

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — A measure designed to give historic landmarks in the township added protection and more funding for preservation has again been put on hold. The reason for the delay is simple procedure, officials said. The Planning Board is in the process of reviewing…

  • Alexandra Afendoulis

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff kicks a ball to her dad, Stathi, during a soccer marathon to raise money for a charity in her sister Lainie’s name — Lainie’s Angels — Sunday at Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Edison.

  • Suspect arrested in bar burglary

    METUCHEN — Police arrested a Trenton man last week in connection with the Sept. 1 burglary of the Metuchen Bar and Grill. Police on Sept. 23 charged Daniel F. Hoffman, 32, Trenton, with two counts of burglary and theft, after detectives from Metuchen, Edison and Highland Park linked him to burglaries in all three towns.…

  • Lainie’s Angels are among us, father says

    Lainie Afendoulis Organization aims to ease pain, support parents of sick children BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer You don’t ever get over it. You don’t heal. You just learn how to live with and medicate the forever open wound that is the death of a child. Stathi Afendoulis will tell you that with conviction.…