• Edison AARP slates meeting, trips

    Edison AARP Chapter No. 3446 has scheduled the following trips: • March 22, The Paper Mill Playhouse to see “Damn Yankees”; call Claire at 732- 549-5316. • April 25-26, The Steamboat Inn, Lancaster, Pa., plus two shows; call Bob at 732- 885-1789. • May 14, Tropicana, Atlantic City; call Angie at 732-738-0759. • June 4-7,…

  • Does whiskey come with the box lunch?

    ARE WE THERE YET LORI CLINCH Although I’m no CPA, I do know a little bit about taxes. My tariff education began the year I met my beloved spouse. Somewhere between the third date and holy matrimony, he dropped a calculator and a Bic pen into my lap along with Form 941. Form941 has been…

  • Photos of Holocaust survivors, dead sought

    The Metuchen Edison Interfaith Clergy Association and the Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County are looking for photos from before and after the Holocaust, of both survivors and those who died, for a slideshow as part of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Program. Present-day photos of survivors are welcome as well. Send scanned digital images only,…

  • Edison police charge three in burglaries

    EDISON — Police have charged three suspects in connection with two recent burglaries in the Clara Barton section of the township. The suspects, Terran Aultman, 21, of Highland Park, Daquan White, 19, of New Brunswick, and Joshua Rawlins, 18, of Woodbridge, were transported to the Middlesex County Adult Correction Center, North Brunswick, on $50,000 bail…

  • The kids always said that school food tastes funny

    CODA GREG BEAN Parental warning: This might be a good time to ask the children to leave the room, because we’re going to be talking about a subject that might not be suitable for young’uns. OK, is it just us grownups? Good. Last week, the United States Department of Agriculture announced that, going forward, schools…

  • Reader: Cartoon is in poor taste & column is offensive

    I find the cartoon intimating Gov. Chris Christie as one who creates disunity, maintains stereotypes, and spreads no joy through the region in very poor taste. So letme get this straight — unless you agree with a radical leftwing agenda, you are creating disunity? You claim that traditional marriage is a stereotype? Marriage as currently…

  • Inhalant use is a silent, preventable epidemic

    A s the headlines concentrate on prescription drug abuse, let’s not forget that inhalant use is a cheap, legal and easy way that young people get high. Just last week, a 14-year-old in Oregon died from inhaling helium. Inhalant use has become a silent epidemic. Why? Parents are out of the loop. Children discuss it…

  • Income tax vs. property tax

    I would like to respond to Wayne L. Misner’s letter in the March 7, 2012, issue of the Sentinel about school taxes being based on income. This is an idea I myself have thought about, although on a somewhat larger scale, but realize the difficulties in implementing it, which Mr. Misner (inadvertently) points out in…

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