Category: Sentinel-EDM News
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Home run
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Akash Malik, 10, gets a kick out of the Stelton Community Center’s playground program by kicking a home run for his team at the center’s Plainfield Avenue location in Edison on Monday.
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Water games
MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Swim instructor Paul Arroyo practices kicking exercises with students Anna Ma and Anicket Jain at the Jewish Community Center of Middlesex County pool on Oak Tree Road in Edison on Monday.
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B.B. King crowns area guitar player
Matt O’Ree wins national competition; named best unsigned blues guitarist BY JESSICA SMITH Correspondent BY JESSICA SMITHCorrespondent Matt O’Ree plays guitar with a bottleneck slide at a recent show. Matt O’Ree is no stranger to the blues. The Holmdel native, who has been playing guitar since the age of 13, was recently crowned Guitar Center’s…
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Cops: Man who threatened wife with knife on the lam
BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer Investigators at the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office continue their search for a man accused of threatening to kill an Edison resident with a knife last year. Willie Colon, 45, previously of the Bronx, N.Y., and recently of Edison, was arrested and charged by Edison police in…
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‘The Tempest’ July 22 at Lake Avenue pond
The Metuchen Cultural Arts Commission will present The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey’s Next Stage Ensemble’s performance of Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” at 7 p.m. July 22 at Tommy’s Pond, Lake Avenue, Metuchen. Attendees are asked to bring lawn chairs and/or blankets. For further information, call the Metuchen Recreation Commission at (732) 632-8502 or e-mail [email protected].…
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TV show wants walls that can’t keep secrets
Area residents with historic homes sought for HGTV program Home and Garden Television is seeking historic homes with intriguing pasts to be featured in one of its most popular shows. “If Walls Could Talk,” a long-running hit series on Home and Garden Television (HGTV), features homeowners who have made amazing discoveries about their homes while…
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Rounding the bases
SCOTT FRIEDMAN Brittney Guerry, 15, of Metuchen gets ready to round second base and pick up some Italian ice at the annual Buddy Ball series game between the Woodbridge and Metuchen ballclubs on Saturday.
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Planning Board OKs off-track betting facility
NJSEA exec promises to heed residents’ concerns BY PATRICIA A. MILLER Staff Writer BY PATRICIA A. MILLERStaff Writer WOODBRIDGE – The New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (NJSEA) plans to spend $5 million to turn the old A&P store off Route 1 into a state-of-the-art off-track betting facility. “We firmly believe our facility will reinvigorate…
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Latecomer to police work loves her job
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer KATHY CHANG Metuchen Patrolwoman Nancy Phibbs checks out her patrol car before she heads out to a typical, hectic day shift recently. It’s 6 a.m. on a cool Saturday morning, and Metuchen Patrolwoman Nancy Phibbs is already two hours into her day. “I have to be…
