SSP Architects will be co-hosting the Franklin Township Warrior Education Foundation 3rd Annual Golf Outing on June 26 at Heron Glen Golf Club in Ringoes. Golfer check-in begins at noon when golfers will pick up their lunch boxes. The shotgun start begins at 1 p.m., with an awards dinner and BBQ at 5:30 p.m.

A resolution supporting a retail cannabis business – the 43rd such business so supported in less than a year – was approved by the Township Council at its May 23 meeting. The business, Dispensary of Somerset, is set to open in the Franklin Court shopping center at Hamilton Street and Franklin Boulevard.

Goods and services worth more than $300,000 were purchased at the May 23 Township Council meeting. A contract worth $258,090 was awarded to Cliffside Body Corp. of Fairview for two stainless steel dump bodies with spreaders and plows.

SALUTE – Members of the Franklin High School JROTC perform during the township’s annual Memorial Day parade. A marching band, military cadets, a Coast Guard flyover and lots of noise highlighted the Township’s annual Memorial Day parade and ceremony, held May 29. Residents lined DeMott Lane, between New Brunswick Road and the Municipal Complex, starting about an hour before the …

HEY COACH! – Darryl Robinson was named the Head Coach of the Franklin High School girls’ basketball team at the May 25 Board of Education meeting. Two Warriors were confirmed by the Board of Education May 25 to take the helms of the Franklin High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams. The Board approved the hiring of Darryl Robinson as …

Tom Larson Fusia, Sr., of Somerset passed away on May 24 at the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Somerville. He was 97. Born in Pittsburgh and raised in Oakmont, Pennsylvania, he lived in various places throughout Pennsylvania, Indiana, New Jersey and Virginia before settling in Somerset last year. Tom served in the US Navy during World War II from 1944 …

Amendments to the township’s noise ordinance that elicited applause from some Canal Walk residents opposed to a nearby warehouse application was introduced at the Township Council’s May 23 meeting. The ordinance restricts the time that industrial-related loading and unloading operations, as well as the use of vehicles with backup beepers, can be used on properties that abut Scenic Corridors which …

A HEALTHY IDEA – Fran Palm, Zufall’s CEO, talks about the proposed partnership at the May 23 Township Council meeting. The Township Council appears to be heading into a three-way partnership that could result in a permanent community health center established at one of the Franklin Middle School campuses. Council members spoke favorably of a proposal to contribute $1.5 million …

A 39-year-old township man has been charged with attempted murder after police said he fired a gun at another driver in a road rage incident on Easton Avenue. At about 4:50 p.m. May 5, a township resident was driving on Easton, near the Route 287 intersection, when the defendant tried to merge into the other driver’s lane, according to a …

PARTY EMCEE – Windy White, the Township Parks & Recreation Department’s Deputy Director, speaks during the May 20 Franklin Township Youth Center’s first anniversary celebration. The Franklin Township Youth Center threw itself a birthday party on May 20 to celebrate its first year of operation. The Center officially opened its doors on May 14, 2022.