• Board eyes Camp Kilmer building for school use

    Could cost district just over $1 million to purchase and renovate facility BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Can the Edison school district address overcrowding without passing a referendum? Maybe. School officials are hoping they can resolve some of the space issues by acquiring a building at the former Camp Kilmer property along Plainfield Avenue. “This…

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    Noelle Hussein, prom queen, and Will Nunn display the latest formal fashions during the 2010 Prom Fashion Show at Edison High School on Thursday. SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • It’s gonna be expensive, no matter how you define it

    Coda • GREG BEAN As former President William Jefferson Clinton famously explained during his 1998 grand jury testimony in the Monica Lewinski affair, “it depends on what the meaning of is is.” In other words, in politics, it all depends on your definition. We’ve got a little of that going on in New Jersey these…

  • Passage of bill is historic social legislation

    Few issues have been as hotly debated as have the health care reform bills over the past year. The dialogue has often been not worthy of a debate on the great public policy issue of our day. We have heard claims about government takeover of the health care system, death panels and other fallacies that…

  • Cost of wars, health care at root of financial woes

    Reference is made to the list of state aid cuts to municipalities and school districts across New Jersey as recommended by Gov. Christie. You don’t need a six-figure college diploma from any of our institutions of higher education to realize that taxpayers will undoubtedly be hit once again with elevated property taxes. It is how…

  • 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…

  • Sports Shorts

    Nico Calello, a 6-year-old Edison resident, took first place in the 40-pound Pee Wee division in the March 7 Metuchen tournament. He will now wrestle in the New Jersey State tournament. Nico has also come in first place in the following tournaments: the Battle at the Bayshore at Keansburg High School, the Berkeley Bash in…

  • Metuchen tennis team has high expectations

    BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer METUCHEN — The Metuchen High School boys tennis team lost just two of last season’s top seven and will once again be among the top teams in the Greater Middlesex Conference Blue Division. An indication of which team might finish on top could be revealed when the Bulldogs open the…

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    Above: Old Bridge shortstop Taylor Amato (l) looks to turn two before Freehold Township’s Tyler Haines (r) can break it up during the Knights’ scrimmage on March 19 at John A. Phillips Park in Old Bridge. Below: Old Bridge starting pitcher Nick Baldino is in the act of making a pitch. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR…

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