Category: Sentinel-EDM News

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Christina Smiling, a fourth-grader at the Campbell School in Metuchen, takes part in the school’s new wireless computer lab.

  • ‘Sound of Music’ kin coming to State Theatre

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Pretty soon the State Theatre in New Brunswick will be “alive with ‘The Sound of Music,’ ” as the song goes. It has been decades since the classic feel-good musical opened on Broadway as an ode to the real-life drama of the…

  • CIC Superfund site targeted for open space

    Officials plan to pursue variety of funding sources, mayor says BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Officials are making plans to acquire the former Chemical Insecticide Corp. (CIC) Superfund site to preserve it as a passive recreation tract, once the cleanup is completed in March. Township officials recently…

  • Bear buddies

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Baby Bear, Mama Bear and Papa Bear (l-r) Howard S. Whitmore, Michele Tauber and Patrick Starega test their porridge during the play “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” at the Forum Theatre in Metuchen Jan. 15.

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Campbell School, Metuchen, students Peter Kim, Max Donahue and Michael Hronich practice typing on the laptops that are part of the school’s new mobile computer lab.

  • Too much traffic? Take the bus, planner says

    FILE PHOTO Photo of a truck fire on a Route 287 exit ramp last year in Edison illustrates the large number of trucks that travel Middlesex County roadways. Truck traffic tie-ups and fatalities are predicted to increase substantially by the year 2020, according to a recent report by the watchdog group Tri-State Transportation Campaign. Middlesex…

  • Deadline for Good Samaritan Award Jan. 31

    The American Red Cross of Central New Jersey, Princeton, is seeking individuals for the American Red Cross Good Samaritan Awards, with deadline for nominations Jan. 31. Nominees can be a neighbor, colleague, friend or family member that willingly provided emergency care without expectation or acceptance of compensation. The American Red Cross will honor the award…

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    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Campbell School first-graders Malcolm Vigil, Jake Galeota and Cameron Kessler listen to a book about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Friday in Metuchen.

  • Bear support

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Papa Bear, Patrick Starega, offers testimony during the trial of Goldilocks during the play “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” at the Forum Theatre, in Metuchen, Saturday. Greg Weber (background) played the judge in the Kid’s Forum production.