Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Borough hall work nearing finish line
Officials mum on whether contractor will meetJuly 15 deadline BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer Officials mum on whether contractor will meet July 15 deadline BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Construction on Metuchen Borough Hall is ongoing. The clock is ticking for the contractor to meet its own promised deadline to deliver the new…
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Residents not satisfied with housing hearing
Board scheduledto pick up Beechwood application July 19 BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Board scheduled to pick up Beechwood application July 19 BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — In closing the public hearing on a controversial development, the powers that be on Planning Board may have spoken, but residents are still chattering furiously…
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Several injured in brawl at party
WOODBRIDGE According to police reports, one of the victims told police that shortly after 2 p.m. five cars pulled in front of the house and when he went to see what was going on, a man attacked him with a bat. Two other partygoers also sustained injuries in the scuffle, police said. Two of the…
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Man faces weapons charge
WOODBRIDGE — Police arrested a man who witnesses said was causing a commotion at the Metropark train station by wielding a knife June 29. A taxi driver phoned police around 9 p.m. after witnessing the man behaving in an erratic and apparently intoxicated manner and refusing his request for a ride to a local bar.…
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Special night at center courtesy of donated duds
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Dress it up! That is what residents of the Roosevelt Care Center intend to do with some "gently used" donated duds and accessories. In keeping with its twice-annual "Evening of Elegant Dining," officials of the center want to make certain all residents…
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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…
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Ford plant razing a complicated process
Final contract topurchase site hinges on rezoning after demolition BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Final contract to purchase site hinges on rezoning after demolition BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Cleanup and demolition must come first before commercial real estate giant Hartz Mountain Industries builds its vision for mixed-use development on the 102-acre…
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Violent-crime victim works to help others
BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Iselin resident Angela Brandli was left wheelchair-bound by a stabbing in 1990. WOODBRIDGE — Iselin resident Angela Brandli was left paralyzed after a next door neighbor entered her bedroom through her window on a March night in 1990 and stabbed her six times…
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Facelift planned for Route 27 firehouse
Chief says needto overhaul facility has existed for years BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Chief says need to overhaul facility has existed for years BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer Fire Station No. 2 is going to look like more than a million bucks. What Edison Fire Department Chief Robert Campbell described as the main…
