The school district’s pre-school program will no longer be free for many students starting in the 2016-17 school year. The Board of Education at its Jan. 28 meeting voted to charge most students a yearly tuition of $5,900 for the program.

Opponents of a proposal to move the Franklin High School graduation to the school rather than stay at a Trenton arena let their voices be heard at the Jan. 28 Board of Education meeting. All but one of more than a dozen people who spoke on the topic urged the board to keep the graduation ceremony at the Sun National …

Bridgewater, NJ – The Somerset Patriots have announced the re-signing of outfielder Aharon Eggleston.  

Township officials have one request for residents concerned about snow plowing after the weekend storm: Please be patient. Crews from the township Department of Public Works and hired contractors have been plowing the township’s more than 800 streets since the storm began, officials said. But, they admitted, some mistakes were made.

Some may have seen more than two feet of snow an impediment, but two township siblings saw it as an opportunity to help their neighbors. Noelle and Noah Brent-Magri, both 16, teamed up on Jan. 24 to dig their neighbors – and some strangers – out of the blizzard’s aftermath.

Bridgewater, NJ – The Somerset Patriots have announced the re-signing of record-breaking closer Jon Hunton, who will also serve once again as the Director of Player Personnel.  

Township residents spent Jan. 24 digging out of or playing in the average 24 inches of snow that Winter Storm Jonas dumped on the Eight Villages. One lingering effect of the storm, which began Friday evening and didn’t stop until about 24 hours later, was the cancellation of school for Jan. 25.

There were no reported injuries in 14 automobile crashes reported Jan. 23, during the Blizzard of 2016. The storm, which began late in the evening of Jan. 22, was expected to drop between 25 and 30 inches of snow on the township.

A proposal to bring the Franklin High School graduation ceremony back to the high school campus is scheduled to be discussed at the Board of Education’s Jan. 28 meeting. The proposal comes from Thomas DiGanci, the interim high school principal, and was enunciated in a letter he recently sent to high school seniors’ parents.

A “new smile” for the Village Plaza shopping center on Easton Avenue is just about completed. The work, which now entails replacing the individual retail stores’ signage, should be completed in about a month, said Jonathan Stirberg, one of the partners of center owner Jonas Realty.