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More than 100 residents gathered Wednesday outside the site of the former Charlie Brown s restaurant to protest a developer’s plan to build 23 townhomes on Plainfield Road. (Shweta Bhat)
EDISON, NJ More than 100 residents gathered Wednesday outside the site of the former Charlie Brown s restaurant to protest a developer s plan to build 23 townhomes on Plainfield Road.
Several elected officials also attended the rally, including Councilman Ajay Patil, BOE President Jerry Shi, BOE representatives Biral Patel and Shivi Madhukar, Mayoral candidate Keith Hahn and his team, and Margot Harris, who is running for council. It was a great sense of community coming together to have their voices heard to oppose this terrible project, said rally organizer Shweta Bhat.
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Edison school, town officials plea for equal distribution of COVID-19 vaccine
EDISON – School and township officials have plans at the ready to administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
“At this point my job is to provide the resources,” said Andy Toth, deputy fire chief and office of emergency management coordinator. “We have refrigerators and freezers for the vaccine. We have plans in place all ready to go … we are just missing the vaccine.”
Toth joined Schools Superintendent Bernard Bragen, Township Councilman Joseph Coyle, and members of the Board of Education including Board President Jerry Shi, Board Vice President Mohin Patel, Board member Virginia White and Board member Biral Patel at a press conference to plea for equal distribution of the vaccine on Feb. 23.
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Local town officials and school board members said they have the infrastructure ready to handle COVID-19 vaccinations across the district. (Shutterstock)
EDISON, NJ Edison councilman Joe Coyle along with Board of Education members and school superintendent Bernard Bragen, urged state officials to move teachers and school staff higher on COVID-19 vaccine priority list.
At a press conference held Tuesday, Coyle said his office has been receiving complaints from residents on equal distribution of the vaccine. I m calling out to Washington, to Trenton and to Middlesex County that we get equal distribution of this vaccine, said Coyle.