Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • They’ve got a ticket to ride — at MCC camp

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent The 24 teenage girls in the Middlesex Community College summer camp program TechXploration have more than a ticket; they created their own amusement park ride replicas. Left: Medha Patel, Edison, helps her team decide where to put the sign for their ride, The Juggler, on July 30. Their goal was to…

  • Local YMCA joins Obama’s call to service

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent This summer the Metuchen Edison Woodbridge YMCA has joined the nationalUnitedWe Serve effort launched by President Barack Obama to promote service as a way of life for Americans. “All the Y’s nationally were asked by Mrs. Obama to be involved in this,” said William Lovett, CEO of the Metuchen Edison Woodbridge…

  • Longhouse to be focus of event at park

    Structure was type of home used by natives of N.J. area Marvin Davis of East Brunswick shows an Eastern Woodland Indian snowshoe that was among the items on display at Thompson Park in Jamesburg. JAMESBURG — Area residents were invited to step back in history recently and help members of Intertribal American Indians of New…

  • ‘Vampire Diaries’ to give Marlboro native star turn

    Paul Wesley prepares for show’s Sept. debut BY REBECCA MORTON Staff Writer You never know what to expect as an actor, but Marlboro native Paul Wesley can expect to have audiences watching him on the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries” on Thursdays this fall. Paul Wesley Wesley, 27, was on location in Atlanta, Ga., when he…

  • Local police departments to target drunken drivers

    Over the Limit, Under Arrest’ campaign to be held Aug. 21 – Sept. 7 Many area police departments will participate in the 2009 “Over the Limit, Under Arrest” campaign Aug. 21-Sept. 7. The campaign helps raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving through high-visibility enforcement and public education tools such as posters, banners…

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    PHOTO BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN Members of Falun Dafa march with the crowd during the India Day parade in Edison on Aug. 9. For more photos, see page 6.

  • DEP asks for cleanup of waste drums

    About 75 of them found at former chemical company site BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Approximately 75 empty steel drums that once held contaminants are sitting behind a fence on the property of the Inman Sports Club. The drums were dug up as part of an effort to clean up the site, located at 990…

  • Edison schools will have an early 2009-10 start

    And it has nothing to do with the upcoming Labor Day holiday BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer While many school-age children are still taking trips to the beach, riding their bikes with their friends and catching up on sleep this summer, the reality is, at least in Edison, that will come to an end much…

  • Metuchen swimmers raise money for a good cause

    And they receive a visit from some special guests BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer For the 203 swimmers and divers on the Metuchen Municipal Pool (MMP) swim team, they received a surprise visit and experience for their efforts in raising money for cancer. PHOTOS COURTESY OF GLORIA O’CONNELL Former U.S. Olympic swimmers Janel Jorgensen (l-r),…