Former schools Superintendent Edward Seto will be paid nearly $55,000 and has agreed to waive ethics complaints against the Board of Education leadership in a separation agreement approved Jan. 31 by the school board. The board met in a special session to approve the agreement, accept Seto’s resignation and appoint Eveny Pagan as the interim Superintendent.

The Franklin Township High School girls’ junior varsity basketball team lost Jan. 30 to the Watching Hils Regional High School squad, 41-31. Watching Hills took control of the game early, jumping to a 21-15 lead by halftime.

They got off to a slow start, but the Franklin High School varsity girls’ basketball team posted a 56-45 win Jan. 30 over Watchung Hills Regional High School. Watchung Hills grabbed an early lead, popping three 3-pointers making the score 9-2.

On the night the Board of Education was told it could save at least $675,000 a year by privatizing its paraprofessionals, one board member said the district should also outsource substitute teachers. The idea came from the Board of Education’s finance committee chairman, Delvin Burton, after he told his colleagues that they’re looking at a more than $2 million shortfall …

Four Franklin High School wrestlers – Ralph Normandia (195), Mike Okolo (220), Chase Smith (106) and Mike Fagg-Daves (170) won their matches in the Warriors’ loss to Hunterdon Central Regional High School Jan. 29, 47-22. Results of the matches follow:

A car stolen from a Parkside Street resident was found later the same day in New Brunswick, police said. The resident told police that he parked his black 2000 Honda Civic in the building’s north parking lot around 6 p.m. on Jan. 27.

Jan. 28 Damiano DiFlorio of Princeton was cited for careless driving after his car ran off the road on Route 27 and landed on its side in a ditch. DiFlorio told police that he was trying to pass a stopped bus on the right when his car’s tires caught the snow and he car left the road.

The design of a new recreation park, to be built by the developer of the Summerfields housing project, was approved Jan. 28 by the Township Council. And although a concept plan shows two bocce ball courts, they’re not included in the final design.

Somerset County’s pilot single-stream recycling program could begin in Franklin in July, the Township Council was told at its Jan. 28 meeting. That’s if the county feels its outreach program to residents and businesses is working, said Paul McCall, the county’s Director of Public Works.

A host of contracts for the year for services and supplies were approved by the Township Council at the Jan. 28 meeting. Many of the awards were for state and shared purchase contracts.