Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar

  • Local artist’s artwork on exhibit at Rutgers

    Metuchen’s own Joan Arbeiter is displaying her “Lives and Works: Talks With Women Artists” portrait series at the Rutgers Art Library, Voorhees Hall, 71 Hamilton St., New Brunswick, until June 13. The portrait series is a companion project to the book “Lives and Works: Talks with Women Artists, Volume 2,” co-authored by Beryl Smith, Sally…

  • Metuchen to hold Memorial Day parade

    Metuchen will hold its 81st Memorial Day parade onMemorial Day,May 26. The parade will begin at 10 a.m., rain or shine, at Pearl Street parking lot. It will end at Memorial Park with a brief ceremony, featuring keynote speaker Capt. Frederic Primich, Medical Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve. The Rev. Mark McCreary of Second…

  • Project Child Find helps kids with special needs

    The Edison Public School District provides evaluation service to resident children ages 3-21 who appear to have significant problems in communication, social-emotional or learning areas, through Project Child Find. Evaluation services are available to preschoolers; highly mobile students with disabilities, such as migrant and homeless students; and to students who may be disabled even though…

  • H.S. girls wanted for summer engineering camp

    Middlesex County College is looking for participants to attend a summer camp program for high school freshman girls. TechXporation, is a four-week program in which teen girls design, develop and construct a working model of a fairgrounds ride, visit a theme park to better understand how amusement park rides work and learn from women who…

  • Twp. sponsors trip to see N.Y. Yankees June 4

    Tickets are now on sale for Edison Township’s parent/child trip to see the N.Y Yankees vs. Toronto on June 4, 4:30- 11 p.m. Tickets are $17 and may be purchased at any of Edison’s 22 playgrounds, the Stelton Community Center, 328 Plainfield Ave. or the Minnie B. Veal Community Center, 1070 Grove Ave. daily from…

  • ‘Dreamcoat’ at Edgar School May 16-18

    Edgar Middle School, 49 Brunswick Ave., Metuchen, will present the school’s seventh- and eighth-grade students in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” in the school’s multipurpose room. Performances will beMay 16 and 17 at 7:30 p.m. and May 18 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for $5. For more information, call…

  • Scrapbooking evenings to benefit BIL scholarship

    The Borough Improvement League (BIL) of Metuchen will hold scrapbooking evenings at the historic Old Franklin School, 491 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen, 6- 11 p.m. May 30 and June 27. Registration is $5, with all proceeds benefiting the BIL scholarship fund, which annually awards a $1,000 scholarship to a graduating student pursuing a career in education,…

  • Twp. plans summer trips to Freedom Fest, Hershey

    Ticketswill go on sale June 2 for Edison Township’s summer trips. Participantsmay sign up at any of Edison’s 22 playgrounds, the Stelton Community Center, 328 PlainfieldAvenue or theMinnie B. Veal Community Center, 1070 GroveAve. daily from8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. All trips are subject to change. Tickets are limited; first come, first served.All applications are…

  • YMCA to host golf benefit June 3 at Rutgers

    The Metuchen Edison Woodbridge YMCA will host the fourth annual Richard M. Hale YMCA Memorial Golf Classic at Rutgers University in Piscataway on June 3. The money raised through the golf outing will benefit the Metuchen Edison Woodbridge YMCA Fund for Tomorrow. The Fund for Tomorrow supports three critical mission objectives: Programs designed to fight…