Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar
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Garden club to hold meetings at library
The Garden Club of Metuchen, starting in February, will be meeting on the first Tuesday of each month at the Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen. The next meeting will be held 7 p.m. Feb. 3. Light refreshments will be served. For more information and the daytime schedule, call 732-548-7559.
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Kindergarten orientation set Feb. 4
Parents of Metuchen children who will have reached the age of 5 by Oct. 1, 2009, are invited to a kindergarten orientation meeting on Feb. 4 to be held at the Moss School, 16 Simpson Place. The kindergarten classrooms will be open 7-7:30 p.m., and a meeting will follow in the all-purpose room for parents…
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Spring classes offered at Middlesex College
Spring ll, a special concentrated semester, is being offered at Middlesex County College, Edison, in areas such as computer science, mathematics, social sciences and Spanish. Most of the classes run from Feb. 17 through May 6. Courses offered at the college’s main campus in Edison include sociology, computer applications, English as a second language, basic…
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Local history to be focus at library Feb. 8
The Metuchen-Edison Historical Society is sponsoring Local History Day 1:30-4:30 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Metuchen Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen. There will be transportation memorabilia from the 1880s through the 1970s. All local historic photographs and maps will be displayed. The historical society welcomes all local history items of interest. This is a free…
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Edison winter trip slated for Feb. 21
There will be a family ski and snow-tubing trip for Edison residents to Shawnee Mountain, Pa., Feb. 21. Departure time is 8 a.m. from the Stelton Community Center, 328 Plainfield Ave., and return time is approximately 6 p.m. The costs is: $49 for lift tickets; $74 for firsttime skier package (beginner’s area and all area…
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NAACP to host Black History Trivia Contes
The Metuchen-Edison Area of the NAACP will celebrate the 100tth anniversary of the founding of the national office by hosting the annual Black History Trivia Contest at 7 p.m. Feb. 12 at the Edison Job Corps Academy, 500 Plainfield Ave., Edison. The public is invited to attend this free event. For more information, call 732-549-7936.
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Middlesex College still accepting enrollments
Prospective students can still register for classes at Middlesex County College. The spring semester begins Jan. 20. For more information, visit www.middlesexcc.edu/admit.
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Arc-Middlesex to hold children’s book drive
The Arc-Middlesex will host a children’s book drive aimed at providing drop-off locations for gently used and new books to be redistributed to various hospitals, day care centers and shelters. Book collections will be held at the Arc-Middlesex’s main office at 219 Black Horse Lane in North Brunswick between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. and…
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Fibromyalgia lecture scheduled for Jan. 28
The Wellness Education Foundation, East Brunswick, will present a community lecture titled “Demystifying Fibromyalgia … What’s It All About?” at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 28 at the Edison Main Library, 340 Plainfield Ave. Fibromyalgia is a chronic, widespread musculoskeletal pain-and-fatigue disorder affecting up to 6 percent of the U.S. population. In addition to pain in the…
