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Updated: The council voted to award Falak Construction the contract at its June 14 meting. Original Story: The Township Council on June 14 is expected to award an $87,000 contract to build three cricket pitches in township parks.

A 15-year district veteran has been named its new director of athletics. Ken Margolin, who for the past year has been the Franklin High School vice principal, was unanimously named to the post by the Board of Education at its May 26 meeting.

A purchase that township officials said will impact Franklin for decades to come was approved May 24 by the Township Council.

Update: The Board of Education adopted the 2016-17 budget at its April 28 meeting. Original Story: Upward revisions in the assessed valuation of township property has nearly halved the tax increase originally called for in the 2016-17 Board of Education budget.

At the prompting of Mayor Phillip Kramer, the Library Board of Trustees is researching the cost of recording and televising its monthly meetings. The trustees meet in the library’s Historical Records room.

A Parsippany firm was tapped by the Township Council April 12 to provide a traffic study for the proposed Catalpa Park. The RBA Group was awarded the $4,600 contract.

Township officials are reviewing more than $200,000 in requests for Community Development Block Grants, but the program’s administrator warned that some of the requests will not be filled. The township’s 2016 CDBG figure has not yet been arrived at, program administrator Deborah Mitchell told the Township Council at its March 22 meeting, but requests in one category exceed what the …

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A North Brunswick firm was chosen March 8 to provide a sound system for Middlebush Park. The Township Council awarded the $13,675 contract to Coskey’s TV Radio Sales and Service. Coskey’s was one of three companies to bid on the project.

A $1 million project to upgrade two Easton Avenue intersections is set to begin on March 14 and is expected to last up to four months. The work, contracted and paid for by Somerset County, will be conducted at Easton and Willow avenues, and at the Easton Mall jug handle by Black Rock Enterprises of Old Bridge. The Easton Mall’s …