Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar

  • 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…

  • WBHS looking for class of 1969 alumni

    Woodbridge High School, 1 Samuel Lupo Place, Woodbridge, will be holding its 40th class reunion weekend bash Oct. 2, 3 and 4, and is still looking for classmates. If classmates haven’t received an invitation or know of someone from this class, please let the committee know. Complete reunion information is also posted on Classmates, MySpace…

  • NJAR to host free home-buying seminar

    The New Jersey Association of Realtors (NJAR) will kick off its free educational seminar series on June 24 with a seminar 6-8 p.m. at the N.J. Convention and Exposition Center at Raritan Center in Edison. The seminar, titled “The Clock Is Ticking — Time to Harness Your Home-Buying Power,” will give attendees insight on the…

  • Metuchen Chamber to host Cruise Nights

    The Metuchen Area Chamber of Commerce will host its Cruise Nights in downtown Metuchen scheduled for the first Wednesday of every month from May to September from 6 to 9 p.m. Rain dates will be scheduled for the secondWednesday of the month. There will be 40 to 50 classic cruisers lining the streets with ’50’s,…

  • Diocese’s St. Thomas More dinner June 18

    The Diocese of Metuchen’s St. Thomas More Society will host its fourth annual dinner at Pierre’s, 582 Georges Road, Monmouth Junction, at 6 p.m. June 18, with guest speaker Kevin T. Jackson. Jackson is a consultant on business ethics for organizations and leaders worldwide, and his talk is titled “The Economic Crisis and the Common…