Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Gift comes early to ghost hunter

    BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer COURTESY OF GARDEN STATE GHOST HUNTERS SOCIETY Members of the Garden State Ghost Hunters Society pose outside the Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia before they prepare to investigate the 178-year-old prison. BRICK TOWNSHIP – The visions began when Boni Bates turned 5. The first-grader had gone to get something…

  • Best face forward

    SCOTT FRIEDMAN Rachael Ruggeri, 10, of Edison, got face painted during the Metuchen- Edison-Woodbridge YMCA annual Janice Garbolino Memorial 5K run in Roosevelt Park in Edison on Oct. 13.

  • Clothing drive benefits those pursuing new jobs

    BY JENNIFER AMATO Staff Writer NEW BRUNSWICK – To make the chances of getting hired even higher, the New Brunswick Rotary Club is sponsoring a clothing drive to benefit the Hire Attire Boutique & Men’s Store Program of the New Brunswick Public Schools Adult Learning Center from now until the end of the month. The…

  • YMCA announces plan for expansion

    EDISON – Officials at the Metuchen- Edison-Woodbridge YMCA have announced plans to expand the facility by 6,000 square feet, a more than 50 percent increase over the building’s 11,00 square feet. The organization’s CEO, William Lovett, said that the building is expanding with its membership, having grown from 1,000 members to 8,000 since opening five…

  • Photo

    ANDREW MILLER staff Madison Fuentes, 5, of Edison, manages to find a needle in the haystack during the Harvest Eve event at James Monroe School in Edison Friday.

  • Firm to study Route 27 traffic

    Drivers to be asked where they came from, where they’re going BY JAY BODAS Correspondent Engineering firm Maser Consulting will soon begin work on an origin-and-destination study on the proposed Route 287 north access ramp to be located off Route 27. The study was announced by Metuchen Mayor Edmund O’Brien at the Oct. 1 meeting…

  • Youth to undertake 30-mile bike ride for MS fundraiser

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer Kyle Fiske, 11, will bike 30 miles in New York for victims of multiple sclerosis. METUCHEN – Eleven-year-old Kyle Fiske will turn his hobby of bike riding into a charity event this Sunday as he rides 30 miles for multiple sclerosis (MS) around the streets of Manhattan. “I always look…

  • Gas leak closes road temporarily

    EDISON – An Oct. 2 gas leak backed up traffic for about two and a half hours and led to a temporary building evacuation. According to Lt. Joseph Shannon of the Edison Township Police Department, an 8- inch gas main was found to be leaking around 12:40 p.m. that day. The leak was in front…

  • Garden club provides community services

    The Terra Nova Garden Club of Edison is a nonprofit community service club that meets on the last Wednesday of each month, Sept. through June, at 6:45 p.m. in the North Edison Library, 777 Grove Ave. A guest speaker or program about interesting topics from flower design to caring for the environment is presented at…