Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Middlesex County senior art contest winners’ work now exhibited

    Middlesex County Department on Aging has announced the winners of its senior art contest, with artwork displayed at the Carteret Senior Center, 100 Cooke Ave., Carteret, through Aug. 12. The works cover nine different media categories. Professional and non-professional artists were judged separately. Firstplace winners will compete in the New Jersey senior citizens art show…

  • Donato remembered as selfless person

    Metuchen Auxiliary Police captain passes away at age 56 BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Approximately 100 people came together last week to remember the man who never asked for anything. CHRIS KELLY staff Police carry the casket of longtime police auxiliary member Angelo Donato, Jr., 56, at the Costello Runyon Funeral Home on July 23.…

  • Porn expo to return to Edison

    EXXXOTICA Expo drew nearly 20,000 a year ago BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Aporn convention that came to Edison last year and stirred up lots of debate will be making a bigger return this year. EXXXOTICA Expo drew approximately 18,000 people to the New Jersey Convention and Exposition Center last year and will be revisiting…

  • A nice run through the park

    Top: Runners break out from the starting line during the JFK Hospital’s Miles for Minds 5K run at Roosevelt Park on July 26. Left: Race winner, Matthew DiPretore, of Cranford, heads for the finish. Above: A runner sprints for home close to a puddle. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • College student writes his way onto committee

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer METUCHEN — The cliché that “every vote counts” has been pounded into people’s heads repeatedly, whether it was a school election or for U.S. president or anything in between. For Ben Chalfin, he is living proof that it’s true. The 20-year-old resident went to his local polling place to vote…

  • Metuchen Massage Therapy opens its doors

    Plenty of walk-in traffic has owner excited since opening business BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer ERIC SUCAR staff Therapist Min Wang (l) observes Qi Zhi (Anna) Luan as she demonstrates a massage at the newly opened Metuchen Massage Therapy, located at 577 Middlesex Ave. in downtown Metuchen. METUCHEN — For about two years, Dr. Marc…

  • With online program, quitting smoking becomes easier

    Quit Net program sponsored by state BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer KATHY CHANG With the help of the free online New Jersey QuitNet program offered by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, Evelyn York, of Woodbridge proper, quit smoking a little over two years ago. She now spends her time watering her…

  • County fair promises entertainment galore

    Events run from Aug. 3-9 at fairgrounds in East Brunswick BY JENNIFER BOOTON Staff Writer The rides, food, music and all the usual attractions, along with thousands of people, will return to the Middlesex County Fairgrounds in East Brunswick when the annual fair kicks off next week. This year’s run, Aug. 3-9, brings even more…

  • Campaign focuses on not leaving kids unattended in cars

    State reps talk about dangers, motor vehicles BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Never leave a child unattended in a car, even for a minute. That is the message that the state Department of Children and Families (DCF) wants to get across through the “Not Even for a Minute” summer campaign that they officially launched at…