Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Police investigating flim-flam

    WOODBRIDGE — Police are investigating a possible phone flim-flam that took place last week. An Iselin woman told police she received roughly 20 phone calls between June 7 and 9 informing her that she’d won $400,000 in a drawing. The caller said his name was Bill Preston from the claims department of America Direct. She…

  • More state money may bring more green

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Officials are proud to be getting another $600,000 to fund open space acquisitions, but they will not say specifically what projects in town the money is funding. The funds, the mayor’s office announced last week, are coming in the form of state…

  • Westerhoff School brings touch of NYC

    BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer PHOTOS BY JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Pianist Milan Milanovic and guitarist Rale Micic (above) perform at a concert sponsored by the Metuchen Cultural Arts Commission June 6. Pianist Julian Gargiulo (right), a faculty member at the Westerhoff School, also performs June 6. Metuchen is one of those…

  • Firm hired to complete landfill cleanup

    Council approves $95Kin consultant feesfor the project BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Council approves $95K in consultant fees for the project BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer It could be a model brownfields to green fields situation. That is what Edison Wetlands Association Executive Director Robert Spiegel is saying about plans a long time in the making…

  • Township to survey neighbors about park

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Nearby residents have been clamoring for a say in the fate of some open property in their neighborhood. However, they aren’t happy with any of the choices provided on a survey recently distributed by the township. After months of contacting the township…

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    CHRIS KELLY staff Matt Coscia, 5, and his sister, Corinne, 7, check out a table full of toys at the Metuchen Street Fair, Main Street, June 13.

  • Driver sought in fatal crash

    EDISON — Township police in conjunction with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office are seeking a suspect in a fatal hit-and-run motor vehicle accident that occurred at about 2:30 a.m. June 8. Police said Ronald C. Ng, a 24-year-old Edison man, was killed when his white Honda Civic was broadsided by a white Ford F350 pickup…

  • Arts society wants exhibit to make a splash

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Jesenia Pagan, Paterson, peruses art at the “Colors, Schemes and Screams” exhibit, which opened earlier this month at the Sheraton-Edison at Raritan Center hosted by the Edison Arts Society. EDISON — It’s just shocking. At least, that’s what the…

  • Main St. open for fun during annual street fair

    Main St. open for fun during annual street fair Great weather on June 13 made for a successful Street Fair on Main Street in Metuchen. METUCHEN — Although Main Street was closed to traffic, it was open for fun on Sunday. The seventh annual Metuchen Street Fair and Craft Show featured over 100 vendors, pony…