Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Officials promise crackdown on speeders
Official: BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer Speeding drivers and trucks traveling Eggert Avenue, beware. That’s the message Metuchen hopes to convey, as it steps up enforcement efforts on the stretch of road between Amboy and Grove avenues. Residents have long complained about speeding drivers and prohibited trucks along Eggert, and the…
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Measure intended to guard against pesticides
BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Gov. James McGreevey high-fives student Kandie Hartwell-Lawrence during his Earth Day appearance at the Campbell School, Metuchen. On a sunny Earth Day afternoon, Gov. James E. McGreevey appeared Thursday at the Campbell School to announce that an initiative to protect schoolchildren from pesticide…
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New brochure for Roosevelt follows fines
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — On the heels being ordered to pay more than $15,000 in state fines for carelessness that put "patients in immediate jeopardy, Roosevelt Care Center has come out with a brochure addressing long-term care financial questions. The brochure aims to provide prospective residents,…
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Township gets grant for ‘Clean Community’
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Township gets grant for ‘Clean Community’ BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Clean it up! That is the purpose of a recent $82,731 grant the township got from the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Clean Communities Program. State Sen. Barbara Buono, Assemblymen Peter J. Barnes Jr. and Patrick…
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Town may condemn parcels for parking lot
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The township has done most of the legwork it needs to do to condemn two vacant lots on a one-mile stretch of Amboy Avenue, which is a designated redevelopment area. The ordinances, which were approved by the Township Council on April 14,…
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Officer apprehends suspect running from crime scene
METUCHEN — Police arrested two men and charged them with burglary in connection with an incident that occurred during the early morning hours of April 10. Officer David Liantonio said Cpl. J.P. Therrien was on patrol shortly after 4 a.m. when he observed a man running away from the Metuchen Food Market on Central Avenue…
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Police arrest suspect in 14 home burglaries
Police arrest suspect in 14 home burglaries EDISON — Police made an arrest in a four-month string of burglaries to homes along the Inman Avenue corridor on April 18. Patrolman Robert Dudash said James Baskerville, 53, Plainfield, was charged with a total of 14 counts of burglary and theft after a surveillance operation conducted by…
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Fountains ready to flow for spring
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Fountains ready to flow for spring BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — A sure sign that spring has sprung is the flow of the township’s fountains. Any day now, the four fountains will be turned on as a part of Mayor George Spadoro’s initiative to keep the township…
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Resident challenges Vidas Park project in court
BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Worker Feliciano Santos sees to the final details of the irrigation system for the new baseball field in Vidas Park, Metuchen. METUCHEN — Construction on a new park in the borough is raising the hackles of at least one resident. Vidas Park, located…
