• Looks like we survived the ‘storm of the decade’

    Coda • GREG BEAN By the time this column sees print, the Great Blizzard of 2010, nicknamed “Snowpocalypse” by some creative member of the national press, will just be a memory. You know, before we moved to the East Coast, I used to believe that folks out here were scared of only one thing, and…

  • Ridiculous’ punishment for teenager who beat up student

    The teenager who beat up the yeshiva student in Edison was not given community service. His sentence included a $600 fine, a 500-word essay on anti-Semitism and a one-year probation. In my opinion, this socalled punishment was ridiculous and a message to other hoodlums to commit acts of violence. Why was he not given community…

  • BOE prez, v.p. clueless about BOE business, reader says

    With a defeated bond referendum now behind Edison voters, its $50,000 price tag to open polls has left its creators Board of Education (BOE) President Dickinson and BOE Vice President Joseph Romano out in the cold. Designed in the trademark deceptive fashion in which the BOE president and vice president conduct business, the logistics of…

  • Thank goodness for great Metuchen neighbors

    About two weeks ago on that really rainy day — you remember the one, when it was raining sideways — well, it was raining right into our electrical box inside our house. My husband realized it around lunchtime, called the police and fire departments, who came to our house and shut off all of our…

  • Dickinson is out of touch with Edison taxpayers

    (Open letter to Board of Education President David Dickinson in response to his comments on the defeated bond referendums.) Mr. Dickinson, you are out of touch with the Edison homeowners/taxpayers. Your comment, “We have to go back to the drawing board and discuss what we are going to do about the overcrowding; we won’t give…

  • Students from Edison school get set for on-air ‘Challenge’

    The academic team from the Wardlaw-Hardridge School of Edison will face Morristown- Beard School in the first round competition of MSG Varsity’s “The Challenge,” airing Feb. 18 at 6:30 p.m. on MSG Varsity on Cablevision’s iO Channel 14. Pictured are academic advisers Rhona Eserner and Jim O’Halloran, Saheela Ibraheem, team captain Charles Kennedy, host Jared…

  • Sports Shorts

    The Middlesex County Department of Parks & Recreation is seeking teams for its annual Board of Chosen Freeholders Basketball Tournament, which starts in early March. This year’s tournament will be held at the Middlesex County Vocational-Technical School located at 21 Suttons Lane in Piscataway. This single-elimination tournament will consist of four divisions: Youth Division 1:…

  • St. Joe’s ice hockey game to help 11-yr.-old

    BY SHAWN LAYTON Staff Writer Much more will be on the line tonight when the St. Joseph High School ice hockey team hosts visiting Red Bank Catholic at 8 p.m. at the Woodbridge Community Center. Elevenyear old Jessica Marrero needs your help. Although born with spina bifida, which involves the incomplete development of the spinal…

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    East Brunswick’s Rob Ukawuba tries to block the shot of South Brunswick’s Malik Davis-Bey during Friday’s game in South Brunswick. The visiting Bears came away with a 45-37 victory. JEFF GRANIT staff

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