Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Tally on winter weather cleanup remains unclear
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Spring arrived on Saturday, right after the area was hit with a sloppy blast of snow and slush late in the season last week. In the some 26-square-mile township — despite the season’s late storm — officials said expenses for the winter…
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Suspects net $50K in alleged burglary scam
Police Composite EDISON — An elderly couple lost a lock box containing in excess of $50,000 cash to two men posing as home repair contractors in a flim-flam burglary on Friday, according to police. At approximately 1:30 p.m. police said a male suspect, described as 6 feet tall, weighing roughly 170 pounds, with a dark…
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Report on defunct landfill due soon
BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — Test results will soon tell if time — and an environmental cleanup — turned the tide on contamination at Edmonds Creek. The results of five years’ worth of concentrated testing on the creek at the inactive 220-acre Kin-Buc Landfill, Meadow Road, will…
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Mayor looks back at actor’s local legacy
Edison High School alum Robert Pastorelli, 49, found dead in L.A. BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer EDISON — The death last week of actor Robert Pastorelli — best known for his role as Eldin "the housepainter" Berneckey on the 1990s sitcom Murphy Brown — sparked a wave of sadness in arts communities spanning from…
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Average home would see taxes rise $189 under proposed budget
School officials say state aid has not kept pace with rising costs BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer Placing the blame on state aid that does not keep pace with rising costs and state education mandates, Edison school officials are asking taxpayers to dig a little deeper into their pockets…
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‘Schoolhouse Rock’ lives at the Forum Theatre
BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer METUCHEN — Anyone who watched Saturday morning cartoons in the ’70s and early ’80s certainly remembers "Schoolhouse Rock," animated musical shorts that taught grammar, history, math and social studies lessons in the form of catchy songs like "Conjunction Junction" and "I’m Just a Bill." "Schoolhouse Rock"…
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JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Chris Mozdzierz (r), Woodbridge, and George Pilesky, Edison, take advantage of Sunday’s mild weather to get in a pickup basketball game at Roosevelt Park in Edison.
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County sets hazardous waste drop-off dates he Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management recently set the following household hazardous waste drop-off days spring schedule
County sets hazardous waste drop-off dates he Middlesex County Division of Solid Waste Management recently set the following household hazardous waste drop-off days spring schedule: • March 20 at the Woodbridge Public Works Department, off Smith Street, Keasbey section of Woodbridge; • April 17 at the Middlesex County Highways Department, Apple Orchard Lane off Route…
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Cops snare suspects in Alabama murders
A traffic stop in Metuchen on Thursday ended up yielding two suspects wanted for questioning in connection with a double murder in Alabama last week. Metuchen police officer David Liantonio said Cpl. J.P. Therrien pulled over a 1978 Dodge Aspen with no license plates at Main and West Cedar streets around 7:45 p.m. on Thursday.…
