Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Bipartisan advocates push ‘pay-to-play’ law
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Township officials may be content to wait and see what the state does about "pay-to-play" legislation, but others say the wait could come at a high price. Pleas for change in a current system, which some in the community say rewards political…
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Council hires consultant for senior center
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The political implications and costs seem too steep. That is what some residents had to say about the Township Council’s decision to hire a consultant — who may be paid up to $254,100 — to provide preconstruction services for a planned overhaul…
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Senior citizen loses $5K in phone scam
BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer METUCHEN — An 82-year-old borough woman was swindled out of thousands of dollars in a telephone scam police said. Officer David Liantonio said that around noon on May 19, the woman received a phone call saying she had won $500,000 in the Canadian lottery, but that…
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College, county reach budget compromise
MCC expected to approve a 4.5 percent tuition hike BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer EDISON — Middlesex County College and county officials struck a deal last week that should keep a proposed tuition increase at Middlesex County College to 4.5 percent. In March, the college’s board of trustees proposed a 9.5…
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‘Hookers’ show their art at Barron Arts Center
BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Irene Sokolowski of Fords admires the hook rugs at the Art of Playing Cards exhibit that recently opened at the Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge. The exhibit runs through June 11. Patty Yoder’s hook rug, King of Hearts (below), was one of 56…
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Forum Theatre celebrates 20th anniversary
BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff The Forum Theatre’s red and gold marquee has long been one of Metuchen’s defining landmarks. METUCHEN — For 20 years, the Forum Theatre has offered area residents the experience of live theater, Broadway musicals, special concert events and children’s theater right in their…
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Man’s coffee break
ends in carjacking WOODBRIDGE — A man who stopped to get a cup of coffee at a local Quick Chek last week was carjacked at gunpoint, according to police. At about 6 a.m. on Saturday, a man driving a 1999 black two-door Mercedes-Benz, model CLK 430, stopped at the Quick Chek at the intersection of…
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James Monroe school’s first leader looks back
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Third-grade students at James Monroe Elementary School, Edison, pay tribute to popular 1960s show “Bonanza” with hats, horses and song. EDISON — The year was 1964. Lyndon Johnson won the presidency by a landslide. Martin Luther King Jr. was awarded the…
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Service group rallies around one of its own
MCC students raise fundsfor kidneytransplant patient BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer MCC students raise funds for kidney transplant patient BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer EDISON — For Iya Bekondo, life is good, kidney disease aside. The Middlesex County College student needs a kidney transplant and spends three days a week in four-hour-long dialysis sessions. An immigrant…
