Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Marijuana hidden in fast-food box

    EDISON — Police arrested a township man on several drug charges after discovering more than a pound of marijuana on his person and in his vehicle July 27. Patrolman Robert Dudash said Bobby Harris, 24, was sitting in a 2002 GMC Envoy with an unidentified female in the parking lot of a Wintergreen Avenue townhouse…

  • ‘Night Out in Venice’ a smashing success

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer ‘Night Out in Venice’ a smashing success BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — It may not have been April in Paris, but it was definitely July in Venice at the Roosevelt Care Center recently. The center, a facility for the aging and infirm in Roosevelt Park, hosted its…

  • State pay-to-play law called too lax

    Two groupsstill pushingfor local laws BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Two groups still pushing for local laws BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer A local lawyer and a citizens group are continuing to push their own versions of a local pay-to-play ordinance. "The state law has no teeth," said Flavio Komuves, an Edison resident and…

  • Attorney gears up for housing court battle

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — It’s not over until all the battles are fought in the courts. That’s how resident and attorney Flavio Komuves feels about the Planning Board’s approval of "Beechwood at Edison." The project calls for 198 apartments, 87 town houses and 61,000 square feet…

  • Father and son charged with theft by deception

    Father and son charged with theft by deception EDISON — A 45-year-old New Brunswick woman was the victim of a father-son flim-flam team last Friday afternoon, police said. The woman was sitting in her 1992 Nissan Maxima around 1 p.m. in front of National Wholesale Liquidates on Route 27 when she was approached by John…

  • Suspect held in string of area armed robberies

    BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Authorities believe they have the perpetrator of a number of armed robberies around the region in custody. Derrell Nettingham, 43, Elizabeth, was picked up by township police on a robbery surveillance detail the afternoon of July 20. Nettingham was observed looking into storefronts on…

  • Mayor fed up over borough hall delay

    Officials disputechange order costssubmitted by builder BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer Mayor fed up over borough hall delay Officials dispute change order costs submitted by builder BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer METUCHEN — With the builder’s own July 15 deadline come and gone, Mayor Edmund O’Brien said last week that the contractor on the long overdue…

  • Man with gunshot wound flees JFK emergency room

    CHRIS KELLY staff Antonio Ventura, Michelle Beaton, Joe Buck and Alphonse Cicatese bask in the atmosphere of A Night Out in Venice at the Roosevelt Care Center, Edison, last week. EDISON — Police said a man with a gunshot wound walked into JFK. Medical Center July 13, but fled before he could be treated. Patrolman…

  • Road repair program gets $400K boost from state

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The township has received $400,000 from the state Department of Transportation (DOT) to defray taxpayer cost of its $4 million road repair program. The grant money will be applied to bringing roads up to par in the southern section. Area legislators, including…