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Board restores positions, driving up tax increase
Marathon meeting finds staff, residents arguing against cuts BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer After almost nine straight hours of emotional and sometimes heated discussion, the Edison Board of Education voted in favor of a $204.8 million school budget just before 4 a.m. April 1. Board member Gene Maeroff cast the lone dissenting vote against the…
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Kyle Pennington, 3, of Edison, and Ryanne Lindermann, 2, of Rahway, make gift boxes during the Easter Egg- Stravaganza at the First Baptist Church of Metuchen on Saturday. The event featured candy, derby car races, face painting, games, food, music, and of course, continuous egg hunts. SCOTT FRIEDMAN
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Movie tickets: You’ll have to hock the family jewels
CODA GREG BEAN I try not to sound like one of those old geezers who bore the pants off younger folk by telling them over and over again how much better things were back in the Olden Days. But I will take a little skip down memory lane by noting that the first time…
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New leadership should emerge on Edison BOE
The school board election in Edison on April 20 will offer voters a chance to say, “Enough is enough,” that it is time for new leadership to emerge on the Board of Education. Voters can induce this transformation by electing Veena Iyer, Theresa Ward and Lori Bonderowitz to the board. I happen to be a…
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Why won’t lawmakers use new health care?
If the health care bill now passed by the House of Representatives, albeit by a slim majority, and must now be integrated in to the Senate’s version, is so great, why won’t our lawmakers from the president on down want to be included as participants of this care? Is it that this health care bill…
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BOE member asks Edison to vote for change
Woodrow Wilson once said, “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” Boy, has that been true about my tenure as a Board of Education (BOE) member in Edison! When the voters conferred this honor on me two years ago, I dove in full of hope for change and trying to fulfill my…
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Building for the future
Students in Middlesex County College’s Mechanical Engineering Technology and Civil Construction Engineering Technology programs toured the construction site of the new Crabiel Hall on the Edison campus April 1, learning about the construction process and materials. The building, scheduled for completion in January, will house classrooms, computer labs, offices and a demonstration culinary kitchen. Student…
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Students ‘March to Feed’ kids in need on April 18
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — Two J.P. Stevens High School juniors have teamed up to help feed impoverished children in Africa. Caitlin Toto and Opal Kale started their endeavor in November after Opal spent last summer traveling in Ghana to volunteer at a local orphanage and day care center. Once there, she soon…
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Bishop George Ahr High School, Edison, will hold its seventh annual golf outing April 23 at the Cranbury Golf Club, West Windsor. The event will begin at 8:30 a.m. with registration and a continental breakfast. The cost is $600 for a foursome or $175 for a solo golfer. The price includes golf, cart, hot dog…
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