Category: Sentinel-EDM Opinion

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  • Reader challenges officials’ land use actions

    The power to rezone properties and to vacate streets is awesome. Recently Edison Township Council members used all their power to carry out this rezoning of property near James Street for JFK Medical Center and then proceeded to vacate streets as another accommodation. The actions are both ill-conceived and premature. Doing double (council) meeting sessions…

  • Reader says Edison needs a more open, accountable government

    I am tired of being personally attacked by the current administration. It seems to me that when I ask questions about the financial information of Edison I am told that I have political motives. What a great way of distorting the facts, make me political. Let’s get the facts straight, I did not create the…

  • Resident grateful for sidewalks on Christie Street

    Recently four new homes were constructed on Christie Street almost across the street from the Edison Museum and Tower. I watched throughout the fall as these new homes were being built and was dismayed when it became obvious that they were being built without sidewalks. I telephoned Edison Township and was told that the Planning…

  • AARP serves as a voice for many in United States

    America is aging, in fact we have added more years to the average life expectancy in this century than in all of history combined. Life is nothing more than a series of adjustments. You are born, attend school, develop a career, get married, raise a family and then Bang! You are 50 years old and…

  • Obituaries

    John Waverczak Mr. Waverczak, 88, of the Avenel section of Woodbridge, died Jan. 26 at the Mary Anne Hale Pavilion of Haven Hospice at JFK Medical Center in Edison. Born in Perth Amboy, he had resided in Avenel for the past 45 years. Prior to retiring 26 years ago, he was employed as a truck…

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  • Man pleads guilty in Edison hit-and-run fatal

    BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer EDISON — The driver in a hit-and-run accident that took the life of an Edison man last June faces five years in prison after entering guilty pleas last week. Daniel Carron, 30, of Springfield, Mass., pleaded guilty on Jan. 27 to charges of vehicular homicide, endangering…

  • Mayor responsible for growth

    In 10 years of dealing with these overdevelopment issues such as the recent Wal-Mart, I can only think of two problems with residents not being notified. This issue (Wal-Mart) which prompted the knee-jerk reaction of placing signs on sites is plain silly. In the Wal-Mart case, it was Spadoro and his Council that changed the…