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    Bishop Ahr High School’s Dana Peterson drives to the basket during her team’s scrimmage with Maplewood on Dec. 11 in Edison. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Bishop Ahr High School’s Christina Merlin looks to make a pass during the team’s preseason scrimmage against Maplewood in Edison on Dec. 11. Bishop Ahr will open the 2010-11 season…

  • Local squad takes 1st place in nat’l cheer contest

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent Sports champions are often seen in commercialsw here they say they’re “going to Disney World” for their post-victory celebration. But for 19 girls in Metuchen’s Pop Warner cheer program, Disney World is where their victory took place. On Dec. 6, the Pee Wee Junior Bulldogs (girls ages 8-10) won first place…

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    Audiences enjoyed hearing the songs of the holiday season during the Upper School Holiday Concert at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison on Dec. 8. RUDY BRANDL

  • Local superintendents say caps will be a disincentive

    Gov. expected to begin limiting chief school administrators’ pay in Feb. BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer School superintendents throughoutN ewJ ersey are facing salary cuts mandated by Gov. Chris Christie, and many are concerned with how the move will affect school district dynamics. Source: New Jersey Department of Education, Budgets 2010, administrative salaries In Middlesex…

  • Rise above our differences; be the best we can be

    It’s heartbreaking. It’s despicable and so sad. Such a loss of respect defies definition and undermines our basic humanity. I’m talking about the invasion of privacy inflicted upon the Rutgers freshman — I omit his name out of respect for him and his family even though it’s well known in the press — by posting…

  • Town should look at long-term costs of hirings

    Regarding Gloria Dittman’s letter in the Dec. 8 issue titled “Firefighters Being Hired? Why?” I think that the hirings and salaries may be cause for concern; however, we do require the personnel to service our township. Rather, we should look more at the long-term costs of these hirings and seek to fix the back-end costs,…

  • Rev. thanks Met. residents for food donations

    On Oct. 20, the youth group of the First Presbyterian Church distributed approximately 2,000 fliers around Metuchen requesting food for our pantry. Our town responded. The following week, the youths collected nearly two months’ worth of food, stocking our food pantry. The generosity of the town will go a long way in helping our neighbors,…

  • Obama has no control over S.S. increases

    Iread a letter in the Sentinel from Gloria S. Dittman in which she stated that “President Obama has frozen Social Security payments for two years.” Well, to quote former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan from New York, “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” The reason that there have not been…

  • Duck and cover, because Sarah’s locked and loaded

    CODA GREG BEAN Although some of my critics won’t believe it, there is no political agenda at work when I make this bold statement: As a hunter, Sarah Palin is a greater menace in the field than Dick Cheney. And I have a feeling that real hunters among my readership will back me up on…

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