Category: Sentinel-EDM News

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff From Chinese dumplings to African dashikis, students at the Menlo Park School in Edison got a taste of various cultures around the world during the annual Cultural Carnival on Saturday. Here, Kindergartner Tony Masters tries on a sombrero from Mexico over twice the size of his 5-year-old head.

  • Oral histories offer a look at Metuchen’s past

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – Charlie Butler told it like it was. “The United States treated me like an unfaithful woman,” he said. “Somebody you love, love, love, but they don’t love you.” Butler’s story, recorded in March 1997, was one of several black oral histories presented by the…

  • Ku Klux Klan was active in boro in 1920s

    BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer METUCHEN – The Ku Klux Klan was here. “The Klan reached its peak in terms of power and influence during the 1920s,” said Tyreen Reuter, a member of the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society. Back in 2000, Reuter researched Klan activity in Metuchen during the 1920s for the…

  • Kids fitness club hopes to instill lifelong habits

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Nine-year-old Ashley Arocho and Jada Sckolla, both of Perth Amboy, pump pint-sized iron at Just Get Moving! Kids Fitness, a children specific fitness center that opened January in Edison. EDISON – The country’s obesity epidemic is expanding as fast as many of its…

  • Future athlete

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Seven-month-old Amia Martinez, of Hillside, is helped with an exercise by Ellie Ruiz, owner of Just Get Moving! Kids Fitness, which opened in January on Amboy Avenue in Edison.

  • Edison Arts Society moves to a new home

    BY JOHN DUNPHY Staff Writer BY JOHN DUNPHYStaff Writer EDISON – The Edison Arts Society has moved on up. The nonprofit organization, which was founded in 1998, moved into new headquarters at 340 Raritan Center Parkway in January. The new location, in the heart of township business, is favorable in many ways, President Angelo Orlando…

  • We are all ‘on loan’ during our lifetimes

    Local writer shares her insight on life and change in her new book BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer BY KATHY CHANGStaff Writer Jennifer Lewis-Hall METUCHEN – Change is constant and inevitable. That’s the theme of Jennifer Lewis-Hall’s new book “Life Changes: Using the Power of Change to Transform Your Life” that’s slated to be out…

  • That’s amor

    SCOTT PILLING staff Darrin Ziemba, of MIJO’s Pizza, spins the dough as he prepares a customer’s pizza pie from scratch last Friday.

  • Pets for adoption at Woodbridge Animal Control at PetSmart

    Clyde Clyde is a handsome, medium-sized light-brown golden retriever/collie mix. His owner surrendered the 7-year-old dog because he had to move. Clyde is well-behaved, friendly with people, kids and other pets. He likes to play and walks well on a leash. He is housebroken. The shelter is a frightening place for a bewildered pet that…