The five seniors on the Franklin High School Unified Track team were honored May 8. The athletes were escorted by family as they made their way through a phalanx of teammates and were given goodie bags and pillows.

Michelle E. Driscoll of Somerset, a student at Rutgers Prep, was awarded the Bristol Myers Squibb-sponsored National Merit Scholarship award. Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc., annually awards scholarships to the children of active, full-time employees of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company U.S. divisions and subsidiaries. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company is a research-based, diversified health care company whose principal businesses are pharmaceuticals, consumer products, nutritionals …

The 10 seniors on the Franklin High School baseball team were honored with their Senior Night on May 5. The seniors received gifts as they were escorted by their parents to a special picture area.

There were a number of events in Franklin on May 6, all of which benefited from the perfect Spring weather. The Franklin Reporter & Advocate covered a few of them:

UNITED IN PRAYER – Members of the township’s faith-based community were joined by community leaders in commemorating the National Day of Prayer at the Municipal Complex. Members of the township’s faith-based community and others on May 3 gathered at the Veterans’ Memorial Park on DeMott Lane to pray together as part of the National Day of Prayer. The event, now …

CROSS-EXAMINATION – Stuart Lieberman, an attorney representing a residents’ group opposed to the warehouses, questions three of the developer’s witnesses at the May 3 Planning Board hearing. The developer of two proposed warehouses at Mettlers and Schoolhouse roads took another shot at approval May 3 in a marathon hearing before the Planning Board. Link Logistics presented a plan that has …

Three masked men – one of whom brandished a handgun – robbed a Hamilton Street jewelry store on May 1, police said. The trio got away in a waiting Lincoln Town Car, driven by a fourth suspect, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

A township couple’s quest to legitimize a home addition built in 2018 moved along May 4 with a variance approval from the Zoning Board of Adjustment. Board members approved the three bulk variance applications – for sideyard setback, total area coverage and percentage of impervious surface – but they made it clear they weren’t happy about it.

Lawrence Karlin of Somerset passed away on May 3. He was 89.He was predeceased by his wife, Lois, in 2017; parents, Michael and Jeanette Karlin; and brothers, Stanley and Seymour Karlin.Surviving are his sons and daughters-in-law, Rabbi Gary Karlin of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Steven Karlin and his wife, Cynthia Hoftizer of Arlington, Virginia and Richard Karlin and his wife, Ann …

ON TO PLAN B – Plans to turn the historic Tulipwood House into an RVCC satellite campus were shelved due to cost and historic preservation concerns. A plan to convert an historic township building into a satellite campus for Raritan Valley Community College was scuttled, mainly because of renovation price constraints. The idea of converting the circa-1892 Tulipwood House on …