The bulk of the township’s limb pickup program should be done by May 7, with the northern section of Franklin completed first. Streets south of the Claremont Road area will be done after that for logistical reasons, Township Manager Robert Vornlocker said at the April 24 Township Council meeting.

Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots have announced that left-handed pitcher Brett Oberholtzer’s contract has been purchased by the Colorado Rockies. He is expected to report to Triple-A.  

A team from Franklin High School was one of 12 selected as international finalists from a pool of 1,000 in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Launch business competition. The four students – Shreya Pugalia, Jahnavi Bavuluri, Anish Murthy and Alex Pagnetti – are the founders of the MIT Launch club at the school.

Somerset Presbyterian Church will hold its annual Spring Flea Market from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 5 on the church’s front lawn, 100 John F. Kennedy Blvd. There is no rain date.

They came with paintings, tea sets, muskets and flatware, all hoping that perhaps they’d found a treasure lying around the house. But, alas, there were no hidden treasures found this day. Still, most of the people who attended the April 22 antique appraisal event at the township library seemed pleased with the examination given their offerings by Alan G. Snyder, …

“Little Free Libraries” may soon be coming to township parks and trails. The idea to place the small “libraries” in various parts of Franklin was broached by Tara Kenyon – the township’s open space consultant – at the April 17 meeting of the Open Space Advisory Committee.

CLINTON – Unity Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of Unity Bank, was one of only two New Jersey community banks to break the top 50 of S&P Global Market Intelligence 2017 best-performing community banks with assets between $1 billion and $10 billion. Unity was ranked 43rd nationally on the respected industry list. Nationally, 533 financial institutions were eligible for the …

625 New Brunswick Rd., Somerset, NJ 08873 (732) 563-4213 Open Monday – Friday, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Table Tennis (Ping Pong) – Monday – Friday. Take a ‘shot’ at being a tournament master by playing single or doubles games. This competitive game has been an Olympic sport since 1988 and is a great way to maintain and improve hand/eye …

Four township-based organizations are among 40 throughout Somerset County chosen in a drawing for the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders’ Community Box seats at TD Bank Ballpark in Bridgewater. The township organizations picked to receive tickets for the box seats are A Child’s Page Inc., the Franklin Township Youth Council, Franklin Women’s Club in Franklin, Somerset Community Action Program.

Jean Lynn Evans (Groszmann), 69, of Somerset died on March 27  in the comfort of her home with family by her side. Lynn, also known as Genie to her many work friends, was a travel agent for over 53 years and of course she loved to travel, visiting over a dozen countries during her life. She belonged to several local …