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Links That May Be of Interest

This is our "Links" page. We'll continually keep my eye out for any websites that are of relevance to folks living in Edison, NJ. When we find any, we'll post them here.

General Information For Edison, NJ

Wikipedia for Edison, NJ

A well annotated overview of Edison, NJ.

Neighborhood Scout - Edison, NJ

A real estate site that provides an interesting overview of Edison. The value of homes is shown according to 22 neighborhoods in the township. The "Data" section includes demographic information for the people of Edison. The site includes tabs for public schools, appreciation rates, and crime rate. (We're not sure how accurate or up-to-date their data is, as it's based partly on census date collected every ten years.) The site lets your spotlight individual neighborhoods in Edison for comparison.

Political Blogs/Websites

The Edison Blog: Edison, New Jersey

A blog about Edison, NJ politics with a special attention given to the township's legal contracts, court cases and budgets. Very nicely done. Operated anonymously by a "small group of thoughtful, concerned citizens."

This is the only blog specifically dedicated to Edison, NJ that we're aware of. Honestly, other than the vitriolic flamewars at NJ.com's Edison forum dominated by a handful of regulars, there doesn't appear to be much truly thoughtful interest or participation in Edison, NJ politics in the blogosphere. (Sorry, someone has to say it.)

But obviously politics at the state level affects us strongly here in Edison. So please take a look at our new "edisongrassroots NJ Blogalopolis" which features many different types of political blogs in New Jersey. It is our goal to provide the most thorough and balanced selection of NJ political blogs available.

Political Action Groups

Environmental Protection/Conservation Groups

Edison Wetlands Association

From the website:

"Edison Wetlands Association (EWA) is a grassroots environmental nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting human health and the environment through conservation and the cleanup of hazardous waste sites.

... EWA is consulted regularly by the media and elected officials to provide guidance on vital environmental decisions. Executive Director Robert Spiegel has testified three times before the United States Senate on the federal Superfund issue, and recently testified before Senate staff on the public health risks of trichloroethylene. EWA’s accomplishments have been profiled in the New York Times, Time Magazine, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Washington Post, ABC News, New York Newsday, Philadelphia Inquirer, CBS News, Mother Jones, and Los Angeles Times, as well as a 2003 national bestseller and the 2004 Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation book, H2O: Highlands to Ocean."

Edison Greenways Group

From the website:

"Founded in 1991 with a grant from the New Jersey Conservation Foundation, the Edison Greenways Group works with township, county, state, and federal organizations to raise awareness about open space preservation, environmental, and bicycle & pedestrian issues…

EGG created and co-sponsors the ECO-TOURS of Edison, trips where residents find out about the natural treasures hidden virtually in their backyards. From the depths of the Dismal Swamp, to the historic resting grounds of Colonial era settlers, from Thomas Edison’s Laboratory site, to the waters of the Raritan River. The aim of the ECO-TOURS has been to educate residents on the importance of open space, watersheds, and historic landmarks. (See our Events page for the dates of these tours.) EGG also created and co-sponsors the annual Bicycle Tour of Edison, which highlights historic and environmentally significant areas throughout the community.

Tree plantings, open space and parkland cleanups are additional community projects that members of EGG do to make Edison a better place…"

Culture, Arts, and Education

Middlesex County College

A public community college offering associate degrees and certificates, located in Edison. Certification tracks are becoming ever more popular as an alternative to Bachelors or Masters degrees. The college offers a wide variety of affordable classess and special events that area residents might simply enjoy for their own sake, independent of any educational degree goal.

Edison Arts Society

A blog supporting the arts in Edison with local information on music, dance, theater, film, literature, and the visual arts.

Metuchen-Edison Historical Society

The mission of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society is to stimulate and promote an interest in and an appreciation of the history of the geographic area in and around the Borough of Metuchen and the Township of Edison in the County of Middlesex, New Jersey.

Edison Public Library

The official website for our township's three (?) public libraries.

Edison Township Public Schools

The official website for Edison's public school system.

Edison Township Education Association

An association of educators for the township of Edison, NJ. Includes links to NJEA. Features meeting schedule for Edison Board of Education.

Parks and Museums

Thomas Edison Center at Menlo Park

Located within Edison State Park, the Center consists of the Art Deco Edison Memorial Tower and a small museum devoted to Thomas Alva Edison's time of immense creativity at Menlo Park. The tower and museum are undergoing rennovations through a $3 million grant.

Plays in the Park

The popular perrenial plays-in-the-park program's website. Plays are performed during the summer at Roosevelt Park and during the winter at the State Theater.

Find the Perfect Park

From the township's official website. It's a guide for Edison's parks' ammenities. In our Edison's Neighborhoods section, for each neighborhood that has a park you'll find each park's map location and Google's 'street view' of it.

Commercial Development

Edison Chamber of Commerce

The site describes the Chamber of Commerce as "the liaison in forwarding the interests of the entire Edison business community (approximately 4,000 businesses) to various opinion leaders."

Edison Towne Square

(aka "Hartz Mountain")

Includes a virtual tour of the planned outdoor mall currently under construction at the site of the former Ford Motor plant on Route 1.

New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center

The events calendar page for the Convention/Expo center at Raritan Center.

Edison Township's Official Website

The Official Website of Edison, NJ - Home Page

For your convenience, the link to the Home Page. See the direct links below to individual pages at the township website that we're guessing will be of greatest interest at Edison's official website. Some pages from the township's official website are also linked further below under the specific categories of interest.

Events Calendar

A handy calendar that displays scheduled meetings for the council, other township administrative boards and committees, and public events. Click on the item in question to learn more. A very nicely done feature--possibly the most useful one for the entire site.

Edison Municipal Council

See this page's navigation bar for council meetings schedule, agendas and minutes, and bios for its members. We've put that material into a more convenient single page format here at this site's Council Agendas & Minutes page.

2010 Recycling and Garbage Collection Schedule

A .pdf document from the Sanitation department. We've tried to organize the file's most pertient information into a single page format at our own Trash & Recycling Pickup page.

Citizen Service Request

Want something taken care of that is the township's responsibility to address? Or you believe it may be up to them to fix? Here's your complaint form. Send it in online and the township promises to e-mail and/or phone you back with their follow-up.

Edison Senior Services

From the township's official website, this page provides information about the Edison Senior Center. In addition, some of the links included are the Mr. Fixit Program, whereby volunteers will do light repair work to homes as long as certain conditions of the program are met; Edison Senior Outreach Service (S.O.S.), which gets seniors linked to a variety of available social services--especially vital for seniors who are isolated some or all of the time.

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