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Foundation’s Unauthorized Plan For Marconi Park Renovation Scuttled By Somerset County

Foundation’s Unauthorized Plan For Marconi Park Renovation Scuttled By Somerset County

Plans by a private organization to refurbish the Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Park at Easton Avenue and JFK Boulevard have been scuttled by Somerset County officials, about two months after the Township ordered that work on the park be stopped because proper permissions had not been acquired. The work, conducted under the auspices of the township-based […]

Open Space Committee Votes To Help Meadows Foundation Pay Some Bills

Open Space Committee Votes To Help Meadows Foundation Pay Some Bills

The Open Space Committee on February 20 voted to recommend that some of its money be used to help the cash-strapped Meadows Foundation pay some of its bills. The recommendation will be sent to the Township Committee through Township Manager Robert Vornlocker, who told Committee members about the Foundation’s issues. The Meadows Foundation “is a […]

Safety Tips Offered In Virtual Town Hall

Safety Tips Offered In Virtual Town Hall

Tips on staying safe in the wake of an uptick statewide of car thefts and home burglaries were given during a virtual town hall meeting February 15. The town hall was hosted by Mayor Phil Kramer and Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather. During the roughly 50-minute session, Maeweather reviewed a number of steps residents can […]

Jain Center Wins Planning Board Approval For Driveway Arch

Jain Center Wins Planning Board Approval For Driveway Arch

It took about eight months, but the Jain Center on Cedar Grove Lane won approval for a proposed driveway arch at the February 7 Planning Board meeting. The biggest stumbling block of the application – whether the Center was obligated by prior Planning Board decisions to align the driveway with that of Cedar Grove Center […]

Black History Month Celebrated With Speeches, Performances And Food

Black History Month Celebrated With Speeches, Performances And Food

Speaking to a cheering audience in the Township Senior/Community Center, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka on February 3 delivered a fiery speech honoring “champions of justice” in the African-American community and extolling those in attendance to continue the struggle toward racial equality in the United States. Baraka was the keynote speaker in a Black History Month […]

MLK Community Foundation Continues Scholarship Fundraising With Annual Breakfast

MLK Community Foundation Continues Scholarship Fundraising With Annual Breakfast

Transformation through psychological health was the keynote theme of the 26th Dr. Martin Luther King Community Foundation’s annual community breakfast at the DoubleTree Hotel on January 15. That theme, tied to the teachings of Dr. King, was delivered by the event’s keynote speaker, Dr. Francine Conway, Chancellor of Rutgers University – New Brunswick. “For those […]

Muslim Heritage Celebrated At Community Center

Muslim Heritage Celebrated At Community Center

The inaugural Muslim Heritage Month celebration in the township – called Noor Night – attracted hundreds of people to the Senior/Community Center in the Municipal Complex on January 14. Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation designating January as Muslim Heritage Month in January 2023. The afternoon featured exhibitions of Islamic arts and crafts, singing, dancing, […]

Tour De Franklin Charity Ride Set For April 28

Tour De Franklin Charity Ride Set For April 28

The 35th Annual Tour de Franklin Charity Bike Ride benefiting the Franklin Food Bank is set for April 28 at the Franklin High School. The Tour de Franklin is the Franklin Food Bank’s largest annual fundraising event and a Spring tradition in Franklin Township, when up to 800 cyclists ride through the community to fight […]

Jain Center Walks Away From Planning Board Empty Handed, Again

Jain Center Walks Away From Planning Board Empty Handed, Again

Representatives of a township temple were once again unsuccessful January 3 in getting Planning Board approvals for a decorative archway planned for the temple’s driveway on Cedar Grove Lane. The difficulty arose when some Planning Board members asserted that years’-old approvals for the Jain Center included a stipulation that they must align their driveway with […]

Martin Luther King Community Foundation Sets Annual Breakfast

Martin Luther King Community Foundation Sets Annual Breakfast

The 2024 Annual Franklin Township Dr. Martin Luther King Community Breakfast is set for 8:30 a.m. January 15, 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in Somerset. Francine Conway, Chancellor of Rutgers University – New Brunswick, will be the event’s keynote speaker. Rutgers has been the college of choice for many graduating students in Franklin […]

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