Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Here come the graduates

    Above: Ernest Blair Jr., Jean M. Brown and Krishna Chandrasekaran sing the school song during the 126th commencement at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison on June 5. Right: Nicole Marianna Kopidakis smiles for her fellow graduates during commencement. PHOTOS BY SCOTT FRIEDMAN

  • Junebug fest dampened but not deterred by rain

    Some events canceled, others moved or postponed BY ENID WEISS Correspondent It rained on Metuchen’s Junebug music and arts festival’s inaugural night Friday — literally. Due to the inclement weather, several events were moved and others were cancelled, according to Caroline Woodruff, administrator at the borough’s Chamber of Commerce, which organized the second annual series…

  • OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND ONTO THE PLAYGROUND – Advertorial

    By Gloria Averbuch Advertorial  OUT OF THE CLASSROOM AND ONTO THE PLAYGROUND By Gloria Averbuch Sky Blue FC Collette McCallum Photo credit to: Howard C. Smith/ISIphotos.com Just as learning is not confined to a classroom, neither are sports and fitness confined to organized teams and programs. You can do a lot to promote children’s fitness,…

  • Lance looking forward to serving as congressman

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Leonard Lance EDISON — A tough economy and the war overseas are just two of the issues that Leonard Lance is facing as a newly elected United States congressman. Lance, 56, a self-described social moderate, won the 2008 election in District 7, which serves parts of Edison and Woodbridge. He…

  • Macy’s employee incurs beating

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — A loss prevention officer at the Macy’s department store in Menlo Park Mall was beaten after he tried to stop a shoplifter from leaving the premises. The 27-year-old victim was trying to apprehend the female suspect on the second floor of the store. Upon trying to grab the…

  • Suspect arrested for GPS thefts

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer EDISON — A Perth Amboy resident was arrested on charges of stealing two GPS systems in just a matter of hours in town. Renier Feliciano, 28, was charged with two counts of burglary, theft and criminal mischief after allegedly stealing a Garmin GPS system from a parked 2003 Toyota 4-…

  • Photo

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Kayla Gawronski, 3, and her mother, Erin, of Metuchen, feed a llama at the petting zoo during the annual Metuchen Spring Fair on May 31. For more photos, see page 18.

  • Breast cancer walk hoping for large turnout

    BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Seven years ago the Michelle Offsie Memorial Walk for Hope started with just over 250 participants, a modest start to something that Janna Zuckerman hoped would only grow over the course of time. “I started with this project when I was 12 years old,” Zuckerman said. “Michelle Offsie was a…

  • Satellite post office to open in Edison

    Devine’s Pharmacy to commence operations in September BY DAN NEWMAN Staff Writer Since opening Devine’s Pharmacy in 1977, store owner Robert Riedinger has felt that Edison needed a post office on the north side of town. “Every so often I’d call the postmaster in town and express my concerns, but unfortunately nothing was ever able…