Category: Sentinel-EDM News

  • South Edison feels slighted on Ford plans

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — They will not be ignored. That is how a contingent of south Edison residents, known as the South Edison Community Association, feel about their involvement on the Ford Motor Co. site redevelopment. The 101-acre tract of land slated for one of the…

  • Team raises $8,000 for cancer awareness

    Area women take part in Avon Walk for Breast Cancer BY BRYAN SABELLA Staff Writer BY BRYAN SABELLAStaff Writer METUCHEN — Three borough women recently decided to observe national Breast Cancer Month by putting their feet in motion. Lorraine Colavito, Madeline Gazzale and Lucille Ralph took part in the 39-mile Avon Walk for Breast Cancer…

  • Metuchen second-graders

    FARRAH MAFFAI staff cast shadows as they participate in Walk Our Children to School Day Oct. 8, an annual event to teach pedestrian safety.

  • Upward mobility

    FARRAH MAFFAI staff Second-grader Julissa Barrera gets a push from teacher Nicole Valera on the swings at Olmezer Park, Metuchen, after Friday’s Walk Our Children to School Day.

  • Toll booth quickly repaired after truck fire

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — Interchange 10 on the New Jersey Turnpike was up and running less than two days after a burning truck carrying cake mix ignited a toll booth Oct. 5. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority was notified at 9:07 p.m. that the toll booth…

  • Bargains galore

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff Debra Forsyth and mom, Elsa, lend a helping hand at the Spectrum for Living yard sale and craft show in Edison on Saturday.

  • Arts Society gears up for poetry readings

    BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDE Staff Writer BY ELAINE VAN DEVELDEStaff Writer EDISON — The Edison Arts Society has harvested its own show of poetry and it won’t cost people anything to share it. The Harvest of Poetry, a show featuring readings of poetry published in the Arts Society’s third issue of the Edison Literary Review,…

  • Cpl. Anthony Carro

    MIGUEL JUAREZ staff displays a Beretta 9mm sidearm during a firearms presentation at the Metuchen Citizens Police Academy Oct. 7.

  • Clean sweep

    JERRY WOLKOWITZ staff Angela Thompson, 13, helps 1-year-old Jake Musmanno wield a broom at the Metuchen Senior Center during Saturday’s Operation Clean Sweep.