Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar

  • Support group offered weekly in Edison

    The Jewish Family and Vocational Service of Middlesex County, 515 Plainfield Ave., Suite 201, Edison, offers a support group for newly separated or divorced adults at 7:30 p.m. every Wednesday. For more information, call (732) 777-1940.

  • Arts society to display members’ works monthly

    The Edison Arts Society, Raritan Center Business Park, 340 Raritan Center Parkway, has initiated an ongoing gallery of member artists. A variety of individual work is represented, changing monthly. DuringApril, Lois Nagy-Hartnack’s exhibit titled “Passages” will be on display. Nagy-Hartnack, an art educator at Iselin Middle School, will exhibit nine of her latest works, acrylic…

  • Experience Edison and Metuchen by bike

    The 2008 Experience Edison/Metuchen by Bike Tour, a 25-mile bicycle tour around Edison Township, will be held May 18 from 9 a.m. to approximately 1 p.m. The tour will feature the following historic sites:Oak Tree Historic Park, Camp Kilmer, Short Hills Battlefield, Edison Tower, Roosevelt Park, Raritan Arsenal, Piscatawaytown, the old Franklin Schoolhouse and Kahn’s…

  • The Arc to hold annual benefit walk May 17

    The Arc of Middlesex County’s annual fundraising walk will be held on Saturday, May 17, at Roosevelt Park in Edison. Registration and activities begin at 9 a.m. with the walk itself starting at 10:15 a.m. The Honorary Leadership Team is being led by Greg Schiano, award-winning head coach of Rutgers University’s football team. The Arc…

  • Police crossing guards needed in Metuchen

    The Metuchen Police Department is now accepting applications for crossing guards. Salary is $10 per hour. Interested parties can contact Patrolman David Liantonio at (732) 632-8547 or Capt. Robin Rentenberg at (732) 632- 8548.

  • Local artist’s artwork on exhibit at Rutgers

    Metuchen’s own Joan Arbeiter is displaying her “Lives and Works: Talks With WomenArtists” portrait series at the RutgersArt 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 Swenson and…

  • Library to host foreign film fest, May 5

    The Metuchen Public Library will conclude its annual spring film festival, the Edna Newby International Film Festival on May 5 with the Indian film “Water.” The film was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign Language Picture and won the Freedom of Expression Award from the National Board of Review. Each film, which will…

  • Wrestling stars to battle in Edison on May 2

    The National Wrestling Superstars will participate in a wrestling fundraiser to benefit the James Monroe and Herbert Hoover schools’ PTAs at 7:45 p.m. May 2 at Herbert Hoover Middle School, 174 Jackson Ave., Edison. Recent WWE superstar “The Masterpiece” Chris Masters, and other WWE/ECW alumni, including Danny Morrison, a.k.a. Dastardly Danny Doring, Julio Dinero, The…

  • Family Fishing Derby May 3 at Papaianni Park

    The 2008 Family Fishing Derby will be held May 3 from 8 a.m. to 4: p.m., at Lake Papaianni in Papaianni Park, Edison. The rain date is May 4. There will be a special children’s-only derby for any registered children up to 15 years of age. This event will begin at 8 a.m., one hour…