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July 23, 2008
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SCOTT FRIEDMAN Crew chief Todd Bechtoldt, of Milford, makes a few last-minute checks before this 1968 Funny Car, owned by Willie Johnson, of Edison, is fired up for the crowd at the custom car and motorcycle show at Edison High School on Sunday to benefit the Edison Boy Scouts. More...
Bond referendum approved by Board of Ed.
Special election on $52 million school construction bond to be decided in September
BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer

The Edison Board of Education voted in support of placing a bond measure on the ballot for voter approval in September that is, for all intents and purposes, identical to the one residents rejected this past April. The vote took place during the board's July 21 meeting and was passed unanimously. More...


Farmers market to come to Edison
Will offer fresh produce every Sunday in Clara Barton section

Sundays in Edison will get a little fresher, as a weekly farmers market gets ready to open in the parking lot of the Provident Bank off Amboy Avenue. More...


Art in the garden

Top: A group of black-eyed Susans that can be found in the LaStella garden on Amboy Avenue in Metuchen. The garden, titled "Point of Entry," was the first stop on the Art in the Garden Tour, benefiting the Edison Arts Society, on July 19. Above and right: Two views of the Basala garden on EggertAven... More...


Boro gets $60,000 from state for traffic study
BY ENID WEISS Correspondent

METUCHEN - Metuchen has been awarded a $60,000 state grant to pay for a traffic circulation study. "We want to make sure the money we get [in the future] is used in the best way to improve the traffic situation in Metuchen," said Mayor Thomas Vahalla in a telephone interview with the Sentinel. More...


 Bulletin Board
•Blood donors needed for Aug. 9 blood drive
Masons Mount Zion Lodge No. 135, 483 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen, will host a blood drive 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Aug. 9. New Jersey Blood Services is issuing an emergency appeal for blood due to critically low supplies in area hospitals. Those with O negative and B negative blood types are especially urge... More...
•Metuchen H.S. class of 1978 seeks classmates
•Spider tale, book buzz at Edison library in August
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 Letters
•Reader: Edison in danger of obsolescence
Edison is in a crisis, and neither our mayor, nor the council, nor the Zoning Board, nor the grassroots organizations want to own up to it or change the thinking and the actions that have created it. The crisis is that Edison is in danger of becoming obsolete. Why? Edison has been built as a seri... More...
•Resident: Don't commit Edison to 14 years of Cablevision
•Resident: Teacher contract process too opaque
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 Editorials
•In some marriages, there's nothing like a close shave
Coda
Today, as part of my occasional series of columns on marital relationships, I'd like to discuss an issue of some interest to both sexes. Specifically, I'd like to talk about shaving. More specifically, I'd like to talk about men's razors, and men's territorial interest in keeping them to themse... More...
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 Red State / Blue State
•A call for fair play in this political back and forth
Red State/Blue State
A political discussion between Red State conservative Dave Simpson - a former reporter, editor, publisher and columnist - and Greg Bean, Blue Stater and executive editor of Greater Media Newspapers. Dear Greg: We've been writing these Red/Blue columns for months now, and there's a ho... More...
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 Sports
•Running for daylight
Edison High School's Zach Tivald has a hold of Union High School's Stefaun Whitehead during Snapple Bowl XV at East Brunswick High School on July 17. JEFF GRANIT staff More...
•Colonia duo represents Patriots football in All-Star game
•Leitner, Greene finish grid careers at Snapple Bowl
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