Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar

  • College Information Night set for June 30

    Kaplan Test Prep is offering a free College Information Night to area high school students and parents 7-9 p.m. June 30, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel, 2055 Lincoln Highway, Edison. Parents and students will have the opportunity to attend workshops on “Getting Into Your First-Choice School” and “Financial Aid,” with two sessions each, 7-8 p.m.…

  • Neve Shalom to honor Torah readers June 27

    Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Ave., Metuchen, will honor its Torah readers June 27, at 9:30 a.m. There will be a free luncheon honoring those who have chanted Torah, Haftarah, Megillot, led services and taught adult education courses. For more information, contact Hazzan Levin at 732-548-2238, ext. 14, or email [email protected].

  • Hospital, library offer medical programs

    The J.F. Kennedy Medical Center and the Edison Public Library have partnered to present a summer of medical programs. The first program is called “CPR and How to Save Lives.” All classes will be held at the Edison Public Library, 340 Plainfield Ave., Edison, and will begin at 6:30 p.m. June 29 and continue every…

  • Edison library to host book-signing event

    The Edison Public Library will welcome Fern Michaels at its “Welcome Home” booksigning event on June 25 at the library, 340 Plainfield Ave. Michaels is an internationally renowned and No. 1 New York Times best-selling author. Her latest hardcover novel, “Mr. and Miss Anonymous,” will be on sale at the library for this program. Free…

  • Library to offer teen summer programs

    This summer, the Young Adult (YA) Department of the Metuchen Public Library will offer a wide array of free programs for Metuchen teens entering grades six through 12. Among the programs will be two book discussion groups, acting/improvisation classes, filmmaking workshops, poetry and fiction workshops, a watercolor painting class, an introduction to fencing class, and…

  • Talk: ‘The Awful Disaster’ June 24

    Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission will present “The Awful Picnic: The General Slocum Disaster” by Kathleen Hulser, public historian for the New York Historical Society, 7 p.m. June 24. The free program will be at East Jersey Olde Towne Village, 1050 River Road, Piscataway. In 1904, church members from the New York German community…

  • OceanFirst Bank to host calendar contest

    The annual OceanFirst Bank Calendar Contest is under way, and photographers are invited to submit original local photographs to be displayed in the bank’s 2010 community calendar. Suggested themes include seasonal scenes of familiar local landmarks, beaches, oceans or lakes within Ocean, Monmouth and Middlesex counties. Photographs must be in color, formatted 10-by-8-inch deep horizontally,…

  • Hadassah slates gift-wrapping event

    Colonia Hadassah’s Father’s Day giftwrap will take place June 17-21 at the Woodbridge Center mall. Volunteers will be available during mall hours to wrap gifts. Proceeds will benefit cancer research and the Hadassah Medical Organization. For more information, call 732-388- 7392.

  • Regulatory Update Seminar June 23

    Information about New Jersey’s brand-new Licensed Site Remediation Professionals program as well as other site remediation and planning issues will be offered at NAIOPNew Jersey’s Regulatory Update Seminar on June 23 at the Pine Manor in Edison. Registration, networking and breakfast will begin at 7:45 a.m. followed by the program at 8:30 a.m. N.J. Department…