Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • On poverty and beauty at a Nepal orphanage

    BY KRITHIKA VARAGUR Correspondent Every night at 8 o’clock, the city of Kathmandu is momentarily plunged into darkness. Then, before you know it, in less than a few seconds, houses and shops and restaurants light up from all sides, generators whirring to life and candles flickering and fluorescent lamps being plugged in. Krithika Varagur, a…

  • Rutgers University women’s rugby team

    Members of the Rutgers University women’s rugby team participated in an April 11 graffiti cleanup organized by the Edison Graffiti Task Force. Locations included the senior parking lot fence at Edison High School, the Edison Skate Park, a fence on Chestnut Street and the Edison Jets concession stand and storage trailers. Other participants included Edison…

  • Edison community honors memory of young athlete

    Sherrod was football team captain, track sprinter and an ‘upstanding young gentleman’ BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer The sun was blazing as Razeenah Walker stood before several hundred people Sunday in a parking lot across from Edison High School, shouting her grandson’s favorite quote. Friends and family members of Kittim N. Sherrod, a senior and…

  • Cruisin’

    Over 150 rare, classic and exotic cars, street rods and vintage emergency vehicles lined the parking lot on New Dover Road during the Edison First Aid Squad No. 2’s 24th annual Spring Fest Antique and Classic Car Show and Craft Fair on May 2. PHOTOS COURTESY OF FRANK NICOLATO

  • Man, 22, injured in hit-and-run outside store

    EDISON — Police are investigating a hit-and-run accident in which a darkcolored Nissan Altima struck a 22-yearold Perth Amboy man as he was walking in the parking lot of the ShopRite on Route 1. The victim said he was hit by the driver-side mirror of the vehicle at 4:12 a.m. April 17, according to the…

  • Bodybuilders pump up for competition in E.B.

    Over 60 contestants to compete at May 1 show BY LAUREN CIRAULO Staff Writer EAST BRUNSWICK — It’s time to break out the spray tan and pump some iron. The 2010 Mid-Atlantic Natural Classic Bodybuilding and Fitness Championship is coming to town. The all-day competition, set for May 1 at East Brunswick High School, will…

  • Earth Day

    Esther Nemitz of Edison listens to the remarks of dignitaries during the Earth Day celebration at the Raritan Boat Basin on April 22. JEFF GRANIT staff

  • Cherry Blossoms

    N.J. Cherry Blossom Princess Amanda Ussak of Edison meets Japanese Cherry Blossom Queen Kanako Ohno, and Michael Passante, counsel for banking and finance with the office of U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez in Washington, D.C. Ussak, a 2006 graduate of Edison High School, was selected by the New Jersey State Society based on her academic achievements,…

  • Edison voters shoot down school tab, incumbents

    Budget called for school tax hike of $268 annually BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Residents came to the polls April 20 to reject both the Edison Board of Education’s $204.8 million budget and the incumbents who sought reelection. Acting Superintendent of Schools John DiMuzio said he had no comment after the final numbers were tallied…