Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Hot rodding it

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Dave Perry and his son Dylan, 10, of Carteret, look closely under the hood of this hot rod at the custom car and motorcycle show at Edison High School on Sunday to benefit the Edison Boy Scouts.

  • YMCA programs connect young, young at heart

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer METUCHEN – It has been a decade since Megan Powers, executive director of the Metuchen YMCA, asked herself how the YMCA could accommodate senior citizens. “I realized that there was a real void of care given to the seniors,” said Powers. “We had plenty to offer the kids … I…

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    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Crew chief Todd Bechtoldt, of Milford, makes a few last-minute checks before this 1968 Funny Car, owned by Willie Johnson, of Edison, is fired up for the crowd at the custom car and motorcycle show at Edison High School on Sunday to benefit the Edison Boy Scouts.

  • Bond referendum approved by Board of Ed.

    Special election on $52 million school construction bond to be decided in September BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer The Edison Board of Education voted in support of placing a bond measure on the ballot for voter approval in September that is, for all intents and purposes, identical to the one residents rejected this past April.…

  • Farmers market to come to Edison

    Will offer fresh produce every Sunday in Clara Barton section Sundays in Edison will get a little fresher, as a weekly farmers market gets ready to open in the parking lot of the Provident Bank off Amboy Avenue. Announced during a press conference on July 15, the farmers market is part of an overall effort…

  • Art in the garden

    Top: A group of black-eyed Susans that can be found in the LaStella garden on Amboy Avenue in Metuchen. The garden, titled “Point of Entry,” was the first stop on the Art in the Garden Tour, benefiting the Edison Arts Society, on July 19. Above and right: Two views of the Basala garden on EggertAvenue…

  • Boro gets $60,000 from state for traffic study

    BY ENID WEISS Correspondent METUCHEN – Metuchen has been awarded a $60,000 state grant to pay for a traffic circulation study. “We want to make sure the money we get [in the future] is used in the best way to improve the traffic situation in Metuchen,” said Mayor Thomas Vahalla in a telephone interview with…

  • Environmental groups launch injunction over chemical site

    BY CHRIS GAETANO Staff Writer EDISON – A local environmental group has filed for a preliminary injunction to step up court proceedings on a lawsuit regarding alleged pollution from an Edison chemical plant. On Wednesday, July 16, the Edison Wetlands Association (EWA), in cooperation with the Eastern Environmental Law Center (EELC), filed a preliminary injunction…

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    ERIC SUCAR staff A Canada goose floats by on a hot summer day