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Township Council Approves Grant For Health Clinic

Township Council Approves Grant For Health Clinic

A partnership between the Township and Board of Education that will result in a health clinic on a school campus came one step closer to fruition at the February 27 Township Council meeting. The Council approved a $1.5 million grant to be used toward a Zufall health clinic on the campus of Franklin Middle School […]

Franklin Park School Students Celebrate ‘Unity Day’ With Pumpkins

Franklin Park School Students Celebrate ‘Unity Day’ With Pumpkins

Although it’s been celebrated for years, Unity Day 2022 was a first for some students at Franklin Park School. The difference? They got to feel what it was like to go pumpkin-picking. The students never left the school property; the “field” was the school’s courtyard. And the pumpkins weren’t growing there, they had been placed […]

RCDCU Cycling Ride For Prostate Cancer Awareness Set For September 17; Event Commended By Mayor, Council

RCDCU Cycling Ride For Prostate Cancer Awareness Set For September 17; Event Commended By Mayor, Council

Community residents, local business owners and others will gear up to take part in the Renaissance Cyclist Defeating Cancer United Inc. (RCDCU) 2022 Bike-A-Thon “ Bike to Fight Prostate Cancer” on September 17, to raise money to promote prostate cancer awareness and the importance of early detection. Prostate cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer […]

Pfizer Booster Shots Available From County Health Department

Pfizer Booster Shots Available From County Health Department

Pfizer booster shots are being administered starting September 25 at Somerset County Department of Health vaccination clinics. The booster shots are available to certain people, based on recent recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Eligible recipients must have completed their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series six or more months previously and meet one […]

Updated: Vaccinations Available For Township Students

Updated: Vaccinations Available For Township Students

Update: About 340 township middle- and high school students are scheduled to receive the Pfizer vaccine on May 27 and June 1, according to school district spokeswoman Mary Clark. There are about 3,626 students in the middle and high schools, Clark said. She said it was not known how many of them have received vaccinations […]

Quail Brook Golf Club Picked As Initial COVID Vaccination Site

Quail Brook Golf Club Picked As Initial COVID Vaccination Site

The Quail Brook Golf Club has been chosen as one of four initial COVID-19 vaccination sites in Somerset County. Most county residents can expect to be vaccinated between mid-Spring and August 2021, according to a press release from the Somerset County Freeholders. The County owned golf course, which lies off New Brunswick Road and is […]

County’s COVID-19 Vaccination Sites Being Determined

County’s COVID-19 Vaccination Sites Being Determined

Somerset County officials are working on designating COVID-19 vaccination sites in the county, a spokesman said on December 21. Two vaccines – by New York-based Pfizer and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna – have been given emergency use approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and are now being shipped to states. The state and county […]

Rabid Feral Kitten Found In Township

Rabid Feral Kitten Found In Township

Anyone who made contact with a grey and white kitten in the Charles Street area between December 10 and 15 should check with their doctor, county health officials said on December 17. The kitten tested positive for rabies after it was found and brought to the Franklin Township Animal Shelter on December 15, according to […]

ProCure Completes Cancer Treatment Of 5,000th Patient

ProCure Completes Cancer Treatment Of 5,000th Patient

Submitted by ProCure. ProCure Proton Therapy Center in Somerset passed another celebratory achievement with the graduation of its 5,000th patient to complete treatment, in this case for prostate cancer. “When we see the courage, the generosity, the wisdom that our patients have as they go through some of the darkest times of their lives, they […]

‘Shades Of Pink’ Breast Cancer Awareness Event Held At Community Center

‘Shades Of Pink’ Breast Cancer Awareness Event Held At Community Center

Breast Cancer Awareness Month events continued in the township Oct. 18, with the “Shades of Pink” awareness event heldin the township Senior/Community Center in the municipal complex. This was the 16th year the event was held in Franklin, said Michéle Samarya-Timm, a health specialist with the Somerset County Health Department. The women and men in […]

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