SCOTT FRIEDMAN Eight-year-old Meredith Kohlstock closes in on a goal as the Woodbridge Buddy Ball Soccer Program held its final game of the season at Roosevelt Park in Edison on Saturday. More ... Council lodges complaint over missing budget details Administration calls complaints to DCA, attorney general a political spectacle BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer       The Edison Township Council voted to send a complaint to the state Department of Community Affairs and the state attorney general over Mayor Jun Choi's intransigence in giving them the lineitem budget details. The budget, described by Business Administrator Anthony Cancro as "not a perfect budget... More ... Dial 'U' for uproar Cell phone tower proposal draws strong rebuke BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer       EDISON - A proposed cell phone tower that would be located 200 feet from Martin Luther King Elementary School on Tingley Lane has parents and teachers enraged. Concerned that the children would be unsafe so close to the tower, they berated the Board of Education for not informing them of this pla... More ... Dance, dance, dance      From top - At left: Samantha Staggard, 11, of Iselin, and Kristiana Still, 11, of Metuchen, limber up as Heidi Grokskreutz, star of the hit Fox show "So You Think You Can Dance" conducts a dance clinic at the Jill Justin Dance Studio in Edison on Oct. 25. Carley Deliman, 9, of Sewaren, stretches. G... More ... Mr. Beck goes to Washington Local teen takes part in Youth Leadership Forum in Washington, D.C. BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer       METUCHEN - Seventeen-year-old Brian Beck recently got a chance to see how it all works in the nation's capital. The senior at St. Joseph High School was selected by his history teacher, Ryan Lechner, to attend the National Youth Leadership Forum [NYLF] on National Security in Washington, D.C., f... More ... Edison gets $525K to improve Amboy Ave. area BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer       EDISON - The township has received about a half-million dollars in state aid, which will be devoted toward improvements to the Amboy Avenue area. The grant, which comes from the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Neighborhood Preservation Program, will come in the form of one payment of ... More ... Durham Ave. crash leads to tot's death BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer       METUCHEN - On the rainy morning of Oct. 24, a motor vehicle accident at what Patrolman David Liantonio called "an odd intersection" resulted in the death of a 3-year-old girl, police said. Until that Wednesday at 8:47 a.m. More ... From gamer to entrepreneur N.J. teen organizes professional video game tournaments, LAN parties BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer       WOODBRIDGE - With his new Web site ProHaloLeague.com and organized LAN (local area network) tournaments, Ryan Gellis, 17, hopes to move gaming from leisure to outright competition. More ... GREEN SCENE November is the time for horticultural multitasking       Fall is upon us with vibrant colors, creating the tapestry of autumn. We all hope the inevitable journey of falling leaves will be delayed, so we can enjoy the splendid foliage and somehow postpone the onset of winter. We were blessed with wonderful warm October days and good drenching rains, prov... More ... Ghost hunter gives mixed review to show BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer       Spend two torrid nights in a haunted Philadelphia prison and what do you get? Eleven minutes of fame. Brick resident Boni Bates and her fellow members of the Garden State Ghost Hunters Society were grateful for the exposure they got on the Travel Channel's "Mysterious Journeys" show that aired r... More ...