Category: Sentinel-EDM News

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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.

  • Critics slam paying for Edison mayor’s speech

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Mayor George A. Spadoro is defending his longtime practice of giving his “State of the Township” speech at a $40-a-plate dinner at the Chamber of Commerce. “It has been done like this for years, and residents can see it on the local…

  • Library announces kids’ winter reading programs

    Winter story times at the Metuchen Public Library, 480 Middlesex Ave., begin Jan. 31 for children ages 18 months to 5 years. There will be no preregistration; instead, sign-ups for all sessions will be held 15 minutes before each class, at 10:15 a.m. (or 1:15 p.m. for the “Ready Readers” afternoon session), with a maximum…

  • Metuchen school students continue tradition of charity

    District students, families, pitch in to help those half a world away BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — Americans across the country, moved by the enormity of the recent tsunami tragedy in southeast Asia, are digging deep to help out. And students in the Metuchen schools are pitching in as…

  • Council prez promises more public input

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer Parag Patel EDISON — Township Council Vice President Parag Patel was elected council president at the Jan. 10 organization meeting. With the appointment came a promise of better communications between residents and officials. “My vision for this year is simple,” Patel said. “Continue the…