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Bunker Hill Environmental Center Re-Opened To Township Students

Bunker Hill Environmental Center Re-Opened To Township Students

The Bunker Hill Environmental Center was re-opened to township students Sept. 20, with a group of MacAfee Road School 3rd Graders leading the way. The center, nestled on about 96 acres off of Bunker Hill Road in Griggstown, provides a hands-on environmental science lab to the school district’s students in grades K-12. The center is provided […]

2016 Trails Advisory Photo Contest Winners Announced

2016 Trails Advisory Photo Contest Winners Announced

Winners of the 2016 Trails Advisory Committee Photo Contest were announced at the Sept. 14 meeting. The winners were Navajo Singh, Jennifer Tuck, Santiago Caasi and Kathy Bland. The winning pictures are included in the 2017 Trails calendar, which can be seen here. Judges had to pick from 39 entries, a job that committee chairwoman […]

Huge Turnout At FERC Gas Compressor ‘Scoping Session’

Huge Turnout At FERC Gas Compressor ‘Scoping Session’

More than 200 people showed up Sept. 15 at the Senior/Community Center to give their opinions about the siting of a natural gas compression station in the southern part of the township. And judging by the comments made by people outside the building and in prior venues, there weren’t too many positive opinions given. The […]

Flower & Garden Photo Workshop Set For Colonial Park

Flower & Garden Photo Workshop Set For Colonial Park

The Somerset County Park Commission Horticulture Department at the Colonial Park Gardens has scheduled a fall “Flower & Garden Photography Workshop” from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 17. The session will take place in the Colonial Park Perennial Garden, Parking Lots A, F.. The workshop will be presented by professional photographer Brien Szabo […]

Autumn in the Perennial Garden Field Study

Autumn in the Perennial Garden Field Study

Autumn is almost here and the Somerset County Park Commission’s Perennial Garden, located in the Colonial Park Gardens, Lot F, is approaching peak bloom. On Saturday, Sept. 10, from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m., the Colonial Park Gardens Horticulture Department is inviting the public to join a field study of fall-blooming perennials. The staff will discuss […]

Solar Farm Proposal Panned By Environmental Commission

Solar Farm Proposal Panned By Environmental Commission

A township company’s plan to create a 9-acre solar farm has gained an unlikely opponent – the township Environmental Commission. The commission is opposed to the plan because the company, Rotor Clip, wants to clear more than 17 acres of trees to install the farm, and members say that’s not a good trade-off. “The trade-off does not […]

Tribute Benches, Trees Available In Somerset County Parks

Tribute Benches, Trees Available In Somerset County Parks

The Somerset County Park Foundation is providing an opportunity to pay tribute to family and close friends through a donation of a tree or park bench at a location within the Somerset County Park system. A tax-deductible donation of $2,000 will earn the placement of a bench or tree with a plaque memorializing the contribution. […]

L’Oreal Donates Rain Barrels For Watershed Association Workshops

L’Oreal Donates Rain Barrels For Watershed Association Workshops

Submitted by the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association. The Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association is happy to gain a new partner in its efforts to engage community members in its mission to keep water clean, safe and healthy in central New Jersey. L’Oréal USA Franklin generously donated 20 barrels to the Watershed Association for community rain barrel workshops this […]

Weekend Rain Could Cause Headaches For Monday Morning Commuters

Weekend Rain Could Cause Headaches For Monday Morning Commuters

Township commuters could have a rough go of it the morning of Aug. 1 as heavy weekend rains have caused flooding in several areas. As of the evening of July 31, the Blackwells Mills and Griggstown causeways off Canal Road were flooded out, and “(m)otorists should anticipate that these causeways will remain closed through the […]

Emerald Ash Borer Poses Threat To Township Trees

Emerald Ash Borer Poses Threat To Township Trees

A small green insect, indigenous to Asia, is causing some consternation in the township. The Emerald Ash Borer is killing Ash trees in Franklin, as well as other parts of Somerset County and in five other New Jersey counties. The female lays eggs on the trees’s bark which, when they develop into larvae, bore into the […]