Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • Family ice skating rink set to open this week

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The Roosevelt Park Family Ice Skating Rink is skating into its second season. The new rink, which opened last winter, started its second season officially today at 5 p.m. And officials expect it to prove increasingly popular this winter. “It has been…

  • Greenway project moves forward

    METUCHEN — Middlesex County officials are moving forward with plans for the Greenway project, a multipurpose trail stretching just over three miles through Metuchen, Edison and Woodbridge along the old Lehigh Valley rail line. “The county is closing or close to closing on the Greenway parcel in town,” Mayor Edmund O’Brien said. The county purchased…

  • Campbell School to get new roof, classrooms

    BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — Not only will the Campbell School be getting two new classrooms in the coming year, but a roof replacement is also set to take place. Board of Education officials said last week that the state has qualified the project, estimated at $80,000, for a…

  • ‘Light’ fountain shines again after restoration

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff After sitting dry for years, the “Light Dispelling Darkness” fountain in Roosevelt Park in Edison has been restored. EDISON — After many years of inactivity, a treasured old relic was turned on Monday. Roosevelt Park’s historic fountain, Light Dispelling Darkness, is…

  • Cost of Edison Memorial Tower repairs debated

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer MIGUEL JUAREZ staff EDISON -— Preserving the past can be an expensive future endeavor. And saving the Edison Memorial Tower is a major issue officials have grappled with for some time. “The township budget is very tight this year and we have no dedicated…

  • Clark man recalls his stolen German boyhood

    German immigrant spent two years in Hitler youth camp during WWII BY COLLEEN LUTOLF Staff Writer BY COLLEEN LUTOLFStaff Writer METUCHEN — Like most people, Ludwig Knapp, a Clark resident who emigrated from Germany to America in 1954, has a story. Unlike most people, Knapp’s story includes growing up in Nazi Germany, enrolled in a…

  • Rapt audience

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff The audience at the Metuchen-Edison Historical Society’s monthly meeting as they listen to Ludwig Knapp, of Clark, retell his tale of his years spent in Hitler Youth in Nazi Germany at the Metuchen Library Sunday.

  • Edison council overturns Zoning Board decision

    Medical building didn BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The Township Council has reversed a Zoning Board of Adjustment decision that would have allowed a 2.5-story medical building on James Street near JFK Medical Center. James Street residents, who fought the Zoning Board approval for the 8,400-square-foot building,…

  • Music school keyed up over new Steinway piano

    BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — Students and faculty at the Westerhoff School of Music and Art on Amboy Avenue have acquired a rare thing in the world of small, nonprofit music schools. The school recently celebrated the arrival of a Steinway Grand piano, the result of a longtime quest.…