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Break-in occurs at Edison church
A burglary at St. James Episcopal Church has police looking for those involved in the ransacking of the Woodbridge Avenue location. The Rev. Bill Gerhart showed up at around 9 a.m. Jan. 15 and found that the church’s door was unlocked. Upon entering the church, Gerhart also saw that a tabernacle had been knocked down…
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MHS student arrested for bomb threat
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — Police arrested and charged an 18-year-old Metuchen High School senior on Jan. 12 with allegedly making two separate bomb threats at the high school in December. Lytischa A. Calloway, of Metuchen, was charged with two counts of making terroristic threats and two counts of making false public alarms,…
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Cases of Alzheimer’s disease to double by 2050
No cure yet for the most common, most debilitating form of dementia BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer (Editor’s note: The following statistics and information have been provided by the Alzheimer’s Association Greater New Jersey Chapter.) As the most common form of dementia, accounting for about 70 percent of all cases, Alzheimer’s disease affects 5.3 million…
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Relatives tell of the tragedy of Alzheimer’s disease
Share stories of mental decline of patients, heartache of caregivers BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer Mildred “Muney” Davis is described by her son as a “real lady”: she taught her son to hold doors open and she never used four-letter words. She worked for her husband Lou’s business, volunteered her time for the Jewish Chronic…
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Meeting brings college attendance rate to light
Metuchen group has concerns about lack of students going to four-year schools BY ENID WEISS Correspondent As Metuchen Board of Education officials discussed concerns regarding next year’s school budget and their ongoing search for a new high school principal, several parents and the leader of a community group attended the Jan. 12 school board meeting…
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Early morning explosion shuts down part of Rte. 27
Gas leak blamed for destruction of home office BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Ahome office on Route 27 in Edison was destroyed early Monday morning in an explosion that has been blamed on a natural gas leak. Edison Battalion Chief James Hook assesses the situation of a smoldering pile of charred rubble that remains from…
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Edison Police search for man who may have approached girl
By Dan Newman EDISON — A report of a suspicious vehicle on the south side of Edison has police searching for the driver of that vehicle. On Jan. 18 at about 6:45 a.m., a 9-year-old girl was walking along Harrison Street near Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva. The girl’s mother was about 20 feet in front…
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Edison BOE to try again with bond referendum
Two separate questions up for Jan. 26 vote BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer "The print version of this article that appears in the January 20 edition of the Sentinel listed an incorrect date for the Edison Township Board of Education bond referendum. The date, January 26, in the article below is correct." EDISON — After…
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