Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Plays-in-the-Park: 50 golden years under the stars

    Middlesex County’s popular outdoor theater is still going strong BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer This text will be replaced Middlesex County’s Plays-in-the-Park is celebrating its 50th season of presenting Broadway-style musicals For half a century, Middlesex County’s Plays-in-the-Park has given upcoming stars the spotlight and audiences a reason to smile. This season marks 50 years…

  • Swim Club at Oakcrest in Edison officially joins YMCA family

    Township and Y teamed up to refurbish pool club that dated back to 1959 BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The YMCA Swim Club at Oakcrest features a new 25-meter, six-lane pool. EDISON — It was a beautiful day for the official opening of the YMCA Swim Club at Oakcrest, nestled in 14 acres on Inman…

  • Edison Visionary Lions team starts its year with a bang

    Reena Doshi of the Edison Visionary Lions Club performs a vision screening during a Fourth of July celebration at Lake Papaianni Park. EDISON — The Edison Visionary Lions Club started the new “Lionistic” year with an Independence Day celebration. Under the leadership of lion Anu Chitnis, the club promised a year as spectacular as the…

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    Children harvest cabbage from the garden at the Martin Luther King School in Edison on July 5. Retired teacher Louise Lippe works with students throughout the summer to harvest the crops and keep out rodents. PHOTOS BY ERIC SUCAR staff

  • Edison’s Fall Family Spectacular set for Sept. 8

    Marking the festival’s 20th anniversary, Mayor Antonia Ricigliano and the Edison Council will present the Township’s most popular event, the 2012 Fall Family Spectacular on Saturday, Sept. 8, from 2 to 11 p.m. at Papaianni Park in Edison. Events include well-known recording artists offering music to suit all tastes, a classic car and motorcycle show,…

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    Local children enjoy Sciencetellers, an interactive program that uses science experiments to tell a story, at the Metuchen Public Library on July 11. The show’s theme was “Dragons & Dreams.” JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Edison EMTs lend hand in Dominican Republic

    Volunteer group provides care to more than 1,400 in a week BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Edison First Aid Squad No. 2 members Jason Chen (l-r), Keith Shipley and Neel Mehta were part of a small volunteer group that rendered health care services to more than 1,400 people in the Dajabón province in the Dominican…

  • Metuchen swimmers will raise money to fight cancer

    Borough has raised over $30K since first participating in Swim Across America in ’08 BY JACQUELINE DURETT Correspondent Plenty of people will be swimming toward St. Louis on July 29, but they won’t be leaving Metuchen. These swimmers, most of them youngsters, will be taking to the pool for Swim Across America, a nonprofit organization…

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    Sue Castleton of Edison pushes her 10-month-old niece, Taylor Jai Hopewell, as nephew Bradyn Booth, visiting from Georgia, asks if she would buy him the 1966 Pontiac Catalina convertible to his left during the Midtown Little League’s second annual car show fundraiser July 14 at Edison High School.