Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Pothole project, capital improvements approved

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The approval last week of a $5.4 million capital improvements bond ordinance paved the way toward smoother township roads and a few other amenities. Not long after declaring war on potholes, Mayor George Spadoro worked with the Township Council to include $4…

  • Child day care offered to township, schools employees

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Child day care offered to township, schools employees BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Area business, education and municipal leaders have banded together to become better neighbors. Barely two weeks ago, on April 2, Heller Industrial Parks, which fronts the NJ Turnpike, pulled the plug on bright lights,…

  • Group gets means to make garden grow

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — With the help of a grant and the gratis work of a few green thumbs, a historic township landmark will make an aesthetic mark on the area. The Principal Financial Group Historic Gardens Project, an organization under the umbrella of the National…

  • Route 1 pothole takes toll on seven motorists

    WOODBRIDGE — That annual rite of spring — the large pothole — caused damage to seven vehicles traveling on Route 1 April 14, police said. The incidents were reported between 7:05 p.m. and 9:10 p.m. The pothole was located in the right lane of Route 1 north just before Green Street near the Jose Tejas…

  • Victim fights back in snatch-and-grab

    WOODBRIDGE — Police said a robbery victim didn’t give up without a fight April 10. According to reports, shortly after 7 a.m., two Chinese businessmen staying at the Hilton Hotel on South Wood Avenue in Iselin were loading their luggage into the back of a rental van that an American associate was using to drive…

  • Group uses tax day to push ‘polluter pays’ plan

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer PHOTOS BY FARRAH MAFFAI staff Above, manned with signs to state their purpose, members of the Edison Wetlands Association stopped last-minute taxpayers at the Edison post office’s Kilmer branch to remind them that they are footing the bill for toxic waste site cleanup. Event…

  • State: Patients placed in ‘immediate jeopardy’

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer State: Patients placed in ‘immediate jeopardy’ BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer FARRAH MAFFAI staff Roosevelt Care Center, Edison, was recently fined more than $15,000 by the state Department of Health and Senior Services for care infractions. EDISON — Roosevelt Care Center advertises in its brochure that care is its…

  • Lead poisoning case prompts warning

    Family used powder meant for religious rite in food preparation BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer WOODBRIDGE — Township health officials have issued a warning regarding the lead content of sindoor, a powder used in South Asian religious ceremonies. The action comes after a 13-month-old baby and her parents developed lead poisoning…

  • Holocaust remembered in local ceremony

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer JOHN E. SZPARA Joe Borowsky looks on as survivor Helena Bokor lights a candle at the Holocaust remembrance ceremony held Thursday at the county Jewish Community Center, Edison. Below, the color of the yellow tulips held significance at the ceremony. EDISON — Candles were…