Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Governor signs new DWI legislation

    BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer TRENTON — A new state law aims to crack down on repeat drunken drivers. A bill co-sponsored by Assemblymen Upendra Chivikula (D-Somerset) and Peter J. Barnes Jr. (D-Middlesex) to prevent repeat drunken-driving offenders from getting off with lesser punishments was signed into law by Gov. James…

  • Local congregation is accused of discrimination

    Predominantly gay church says Woodbridge church refused rental BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff The Rev. Durrell Watkins of Metropolitan Community Church of Christ the Liberator in North Brunswick, prays at Sunday services. Members of a North Brunswick church with a predominantly gay and lesbian congregation claim they have…

  • Historic preservation to be pondered again

    Former councilmansays state should help preserve tower BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Former councilman says state should help preserve tower BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Historic preservation could be too taxing. That is how some feel about using the open space tax money to keep a long-standing piece of township history from…

  • MCC ready to welcome local ‘star’ students

    EDISON — Middlesex County College prides itself on being an opportunity institution, providing entry to higher-level education at a modest cost for students from around the county. Last week, only days after Gov. James E. McGreevey signed into law the N.J. STARS (New Jersey Tuition Reward Assistance Scholarship) program, the college announced that 78 high…

  • Officials: Security aid helps, but more needed

    State releases $32Min funds to offsetpolice overtime costs BY ALISON GRANITOStaff Writer State releases $32M in funds to offset police overtime costs BY ALISON GRANITO Staff Writer Local police and municipal officials praised the state’s decision to release $32 million in funds dedicated to homeland security. However, they said that in the face of increasing…

  • Local towns report handful of registrations

    Same sex couples, Local towns report handful of registrations seniors able to apply for domestic partnerships On the first official business day after New Jersey’s domestic partnership law took effect, local municipalities reported a handful of couples coming in to register. Under the state’s Domestic Partnership Act, same sex couples and heterosexual couples over age…

  • Authorities seek info on body

    EDISON — Police and prosecutors are still seeking help from the public in identifying a murder victim whose burning body was found in a grave, dug by hand, near the Raritan Center Parkway July 3. The victim was determined to be a light-skinned Hispanic or white male between the ages of 30 and 45, between…

  • Argument with movers leads to drug charges

    BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer EDISON — When a woman was arrested June 26 for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, the last thing she should have asked for was her purse. After police retrieved it for her, she ended up facing drug charges as well. Patrolman Robert Dudash said an auxiliary…

  • Gunman holds up local KFC

    EDISON — A man who said he was looking for a job allegedly robbed the KFC restaurant on Route 1 Friday, police said. Patrolman Robert Dudash said the suspect, described as a black male of thin build, approximately 5 feet 8 inches tall, between his mid-20s to early 30s, and wearing a red shirt and…