Category: Sentinel-EDM Calendar

  • Metuchen cops seeking crossing guards

    The Metuchen Police Department is looking for residents who are interested in becoming crossing guards. The starting salary is $9.50 an hour. For more information, call Capt. Robin Rentenberg at (732) 632-8548 or call Patrolman David Liantonio at (732) 632-8547 for applications. Applicants must have their own transportation. Synagogue slates Purim blood drive on March…

  • Funeral home providing free bereavement support

    The Costello-Runyon Funeral Home, 568 Middlesex Ave., Metuchen, continues to offer a bereavement support group. Ongoing sessions are held every Wednesday and Thursday morning from 10:30 a.m. to noon, as well as Wednesday evening from 7-8:30 p.m. The program, which is free of charge, takes place at the funeral home. Carol Burner, a certified grief…

  • Red Cross Web site links tornado victims to family

    Family and friends of those affected by the recent tornadoes in central Florida can check the American Red Cross “Safe and Well Website” for information at https://disastersafe.redcross.org/Default.aspx. The site can also be reached by visiting www.reecross.org and clicking the “Safe and Well Website” link. The Web site is available around the clock and the Red…

  • Metuchen Citizen Police Academy seeks new recruits

    The Metuchen Police Department will be holding their 10-week “Citizen Police Academy” starting on March 7. The department is looking for borough residents to serve as recruits for the 10-week academy to be held at borough hall from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. The interactive program is designed to educate borough residents about department procedures, guidelines,…

  • Temple announces winter adult education courses

    Congregation Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Ave., Metuchen, has announced open registration for its winter/spring session of adult education. The following courses are being offered: “Suffering and God After 9/11”; “Religious in a Modern World”; “Improving Prayer Book Hebrew”; “Zionism: Then and Now”; “Ritual Arts”; and “Madregot-Bible Study.” Also available are the synagogue’s film series and…

  • AARP schedules trip to see “The Rat Pack”

    The Woodbridge AARP Chapter 3869 has scheduled the following events: March 22: “The Rat Pack” will be performing at the N.J. Performing Arts Center in Newark. Showtime is 1:30 p.m. Guests will depart St. Andrew’s parking lot at 12:15 p.m. Dinner will be at Tony D’s and the price is $65. For more information contact…

  • Council reintroduces Sharma tract ordinance

    Finance board denies waiver; council approves emergency appropriation BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – The Township Council was forced to table a $15 million bond ordinance to bid on the Sharma tract at the Feb. 15 meeting and reintroduce it, effectively taking the township’s ability to bid on the project…

  • Teen fits definition of a vocabulary wiz

    BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent Alex Silady There’s a new game in town, and Alex Silady, 14, of Edison, could be its next national champion. The ninth-grader at John P. Stevens High School in Edison is one of six finalists from New Jersey in the first National Vocabulary Championship, a new…

  • Four arrested in alleged armed robbery, car chase

    BY TOM CAIAZZA Staff Writer BY TOM CAIAZZAStaff Writer EDISON – After a prolonged chase that involved the ramming of police cars and a jaunt through local woods, police arrested two adults and two juveniles suspected of committing armed robbery on Weston Forbes Court Feb. 19, police said. Kiel Goldsmith, 21, and Andre L. Childs,…