• Ed. residents defeat proposed school budget

    EDISON — While all three incumbents were re-elected in last week’s Board of Education election, the budget was soundly rejected. A total of 4,186 residents voted against adopting the $203 million budget while 2,978 voted in favor of it. The budget would have raised school taxes by approximately $176 on an average assessed home of…

  • Looking on in amazement

    PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Above: Angelica, 12, watches Christina Costantino, 11, of Edison, try to knock down empty cans into a recycling game developed by Neha Agarwal for her Girls Scout Gold Award project. Below: Manav Patel (l), Urvaj Shah (c), and Siddart Shah (r), all 6, from Pack 24 of Edison, get a close-up…

  • The real ‘Rain Man’ shines in Edison

    Inspiration for hit movie makes appearance BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Asavant is defined as a person with developmental disorders who may have one or more areas of expertise, ability or brilliance that are in contrast with the individual’s overall limitations. PHOTOS BY DAN NEWMAN Kim Peek, on whom the 1988 movie “Rain Man” was…

  • Metuchen passes budget

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent Metuchen’s 2009-10 school budget passed and all three incumbent school board members retained their seats in the April 21 school election. The budget passed with 978 votes to 728. There are 9,773 total registered voters in the borough, of which 1,716 voted by machine and another 40 voted using absentee ballots,…

  • Silence coming to troublesome railroad crossing

    Safety upgrades also on the way BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer For the 20 years that Stewart Weiss has lived on Westgate Drive in Edison, he’s grown accustomed to the loud noises on his block, none of which have to do with children playing in the street or garbage trucks making their appointed rounds. DAN…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN The Liu family of Metuchen checks out a birdhouse while hiking in the Dismal Swamp Conservation Area during the Edison Wetlands Association’s eighth annual Earth Day celebration at the Triple C Ranch in Edison on April 25. More photos, page 4.

  • Nuclear a safe, dependable energy source

    I take issue with your cartoonist’s slant on nuclear energy in New Jersey (April 9). We have an administration that is openly allied with the liberal green parties that refuse to consider building new reactors. Oyster Creek has shown that nuclear energy is a safe technology and would solve our need for a dependable safe…

  • New Jersey needs Chris Christie as the next governor

    Jon S. Corzine is New Jersey’s 54th governor. He began his Wall Street career in 1975 and upon his retirement from Goldman Sachs in 1999, he was a multimillionaire. Recently, however, Wall Street executives have lost a lot of their power and prestige. In 2000, retiree Jon S. Corzine spent $63 million of his own…

  • A taste of spring on a central N.J. safari

    Just as wildlife awakens from their hibernations and dormant slumbers, many of us are ready to trade in our winter doldrums for a chance to get outside and enjoy nature this spring. In central New Jersey, the options are endless. From migrating hawks and nesting raptors to snakes and spring peepers, there’s something for everyone…

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