Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Studio brings fusion of dance styles to stage

    Tala Shruti dancers perform modern dance, ballet, Bharatanatyam BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent Ballerinas Laura Vendetta and Christine Bragg from the Tala Shruti School of Dance rehearse a show called “The Dance of Destiny: Mime, Myth and Modernism” with Bharatanatyam dancers in Woodbridge. Classical Indian dance will be merged with modern…

  • New bank to rise on site of old Shell gas station

    BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer EDISON – The Planning Board recently unanimously approved an application to construct a bank on the site of a former Shell gas station at 33 Lincoln Highway. “Having an opportunity to hear the testimony and knowing the site quite well, the gas station is a blight…

  • A Cosmo celebration

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Michael Reilly, 8, celebrates after scoring a goal for his team, the Cosmos, during Edison United Soccer Association’s third-grade boys’ division game against the Volcanoes at Martin Luther King School on Saturday.

  • Zoners OK two-story house on Hillsdale Road

    EDISON – The Zoning Board recently approved an application to tear down an existing house on Hillsdale Road so a new two-story house can be built on the site. “Our proposal is to demolish all existing structures and erect a new single-family home,” said Bernard Shihar, the attorney for the applicant, Manor Homes, at the…

  • Residents rally to raise awareness about Darfur

    Three moms start N.J. chapter of Committee on Conscience BY MARY ANNE ROSS Correspondent BY MARY ANNE ROSSCorrespondent MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Robert Kolchmeyer, 11, of East Brunswick, takes part in the Sept. 7 candlelight vigil “Shine a Light for Darfur,” at the East Brunswick municipal complex, designed to raise awareness about the violence taking place…

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    KATHY CHANG Members of the Rutgers University ROTC Color Guard present their colors at the annual Vietnam Veterans Chapter 233’s 24-hour vigil at Memorial Park in Metuchen on Sept. 16. The vigil is for men and women of all wars who were held prisoner or are missing in action. See story, page 9.

  • H.S. sporting events back under lights

    Superintendent, athletic directors met to discuss security BY JAY BODAS Staff Writer BY JAY BODASStaff Writer Edison Schools Superintendent Carol Toth has reversed her ban on night sporting events. Toth even attended portions of both Edison High School and J.P. Stevens High School home football games last week. “I went to both games last night,…

  • Cops probe mischief incidents

    METUCHEN – Police are investigating a recent rash of incidents where someone left the same initials on various front windows of Main Street businesses. “Someone cut the glass of a booth at the train station and put two different tags [initials] inside the glass between 6 p.m. on Sept. 10 and 6 a.m. on Sept.…

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    SCOTT PILLING staff Jack Stanley, museum curator for the Thomas Edison Menlo Park Museum, works on a 1908 Edison Home Phonograph on Friday. See story, page 3.