Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots are looking for host families for their players for the upcoming 2018 season.  

As we have stated before, nature abhors a vacuum. Especially, we might add, when it’s an information vacuum.

The push to build a gazebo in the municipal complex has reached another fundraising goal with a donation from township police. Franklin Township PBA Local 154 donated $2,500 to the fund, bringing the total raised so far to about $40,000, chief fundraiser Bill Grippo said on Feb. 28.

Mrs. Martha Viña passed away on Feb. 27 after battling ovarian cancer for over two years. She passed peacefully at her home in Somerset surrounded by her family. Martha was born on July 29, 1960 in Havana, Cuba and came to United States in 1969. She grew up in Queens, NY and graduated from Hunter College in 1981 with a …

Students at MacAfee Road School have a message for Florida’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas high schoolers: We’re sorry, and you will be OK. The elementary school students are writing letters to their older counterparts in the Parkland, Fl., high school, the scene of the Valentine’s Day shooting which left 17 students and faculty dead and 15 others wounded.

By Michele Rojek The Somerset Presbyterian Church on John . F Kennedy Boulevard has sponsored Boy Scout Troop and Pack 113 for more than 50 years by providing a safe space for hosting weekly troop meetings and other troop events in their Fellowship Hall at the Church. Since 1965 the SPC community has supported the Boy Scouts of America organization …

Franklin High School Junior Diamond Miller did something in three years that took her older sister, Adreana, four: set the all-time scoring record for Warrior basketball. The younger Miller hit that milestone early in the third quarter of the Lady Warriors’ first-round TOC game against East Orange, at FHS on Feb. 27. The Lady Warriors romped over the Lady Jaguars, …

Questions remain unanswered in the Feb. 23 arrest in Franklin High School of a 17-year-old township youth who was allegedly found with a loaded gun in school. According to a Feb. 27 press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office, the youth was found to have a loaded 9mm semi-automatic handgun in his backpack.

A 70-year-old township man and retired math teacher has been released from Somerset County Jail following his Feb. 23 arrest on child pornography related charges. Kent Kollmer of Norris Road in Somerset was released through a court order, according to court documents.

Editor’s Note: In light of the vigorous discussion about guns in schools and school safety in general following the Feb. 14 mass shooting at a Florida high school, we became curious about the opinions of township residents – especially high school students – about those topics. We sent Arnav Tolat, our chief Franklin High School correspondent, to speak with his …