Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Garden club, EWA donate veggies to local food pantry

    Terra Nova Garden Club volunteers show the produce they will donate to Hands of Hope for the Community Food Pantry in Edison. EDISON — The Terra Nova Garden Club and the Edison Wetlands Association (EWA) recently donated more than 20 pounds of homegrown garden vegetables to the Hands of Hope Food Pantry. The vegetables were…

  • Edison super: Schools prepared for new year

    Calls for ‘drama’ of cuts and changes to be left in the past BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer As the Edison school district begins the new school year this week, the massive budget cuts made last spring are weighing heavy on the minds of many. “Nothing is going to be usual in these next couple…

  • FirstEnergy offering grants to stimulate classroom learning

    FirstEnergy Corp.’s New Jersey operating company, Jersey Central Power & Light (JCP&L), is again offering mathematics, science and technology grants to educators and youth group leaders. The grants, available to teachers in pre-kindergarten through grade 12, support classroom projects and teacher professional development initiatives. The deadline to apply for a grant is Sept. 20. Any…

  • Edison board looks, again, for new super

    Interim schools chief devising report on athletics costs BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The Edison Board of Education is hoping to select a permanent superintendent this fall so the new leader could start on Feb. 1 or shortly thereafter. The board officially launched its latest candidate search with advertisements in various forms of media on…

  • Police say man posed as utility worker in attempt to enter house

    EDISON — Police are warning residents of a possible scam that occurred last week in which a man tried to enter a house under the guise of a water company serviceman. An 87-year-old male resident of Wilson Avenue told police that he received a knock on the door from an unknown male saying that there…

  • The Roadside Graves Concert

    Metuchen native John Gleason of The Roadside Graves sings “Honky Tonk,” which he wrote for his grandfather, Joe “Pop Pop” Morin of Edison. Gleason’s band performed at the Metuchen Senior Center parking lot on Center Street on Aug. 26 as part of the Metuchen Rocks! concert series, sponsored by the town’s Recreation and Cultural Arts…

  • Ex-Little League official charged with theft

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN — A well-known borough man has been arrested on charges he stole approximately $69,000 from fellow residents over the course of four years. Richard Lomax, 49, a former Metuchen Little League commissioner who sat on the baseball program’s board until a few weeks ago, was arrested on Aug. 20…

  • Police charge man in 1990 motel stabbing

    Police have arrested a New Brunswick man on charges of fatally stabbing a 15-year-old female in an Edison motel nearly 20 years ago. Steven Parkey Jr., now 40, was charged last week with murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose in the October 1990 death of Nikki Adams, 15, of New Brunswick,…

  • Funding annual parties is a community effort

    Metuchen seniors to hold fundraising luncheon Oct. 24 BY ENID WEISS Correspondent METUCHEN — When the borough’s Senior Center needs something, seniors there don’t just sit around and talk about it. They organize and hold fundraisers, and they created Metuchen Seniors Inc. in the process. The nonprofit group was started 17 years ago with volunteers…