Balmy weather on October 13 served as a backdrop for a number of events in the township. Franklin High School Project Graduation held the first of what will be three clothing drives. The organization get paid by the pound for the clothes, which are sent to needy people overseas.

The Township’s 2024 Leaf Cleanup Program begins the week of October 28, and extends to the week of December 9. Run by the Department of Public Works, the program’s goal is to “keep our neighborhoods pristine during the fall season,” according to a press release on the program.

MAKING HER CASE – Public Safety Director Quovella Maeweather explains the need for changes to the Township’s noise ordinance during the October 8 Council meeting. Classifying noise as a “nuisance” and better regulating large outdoor parties were topics of conversation at the October 8 Township Council meeting. The Council took up two proposed ordinance amendments: one that would require registration …

POT TALK – Township Manager Robert Vornlocker talks about the proposed ordinance amendment limiting the number of cannabis retailers in the township to 18. The number of cannabis retailers in the township would be officially limited to 18 under an ordinance amendment introduced at the Township Council’s October 8 meeting. There is some leeway in that number, however. If a …

By Rabbi Eli Garfinkel of Temple Beth-El. Here is what I have to say about October 7th:

Mrs. Anna Sframeli passed away October 6 at Community Medical Center in Toms River. She was 98 years old. Mrs. Sframeli was born in New Brunswick but was a lifetime resident of Franklin Township. She was also a lifelong parishioner of St. Peter the Apostle Roman Catholic Church in New Brunswick. Anna was a loving, caring and wonderful mother, grandmother, …

Mrs. Vivian Cottrell passed away on October 4 at her home in Somerset. She was 75 years old. Mrs. Cottrell was born in Somerville and was a lifetime resident of Franklin Township. She was employed for many years as a Teachers Aide for the Franklin Township Board of Education and was employed as a crossing guard, business administrator and Commissioner …

Jacqueline Lenore Stagg passed away peacefully on October 3 at Parker River Road in Piscataway. She was 100 years old. Jacqueline was born in Manhattan and raised in Flushing, Queens. She graduated from Bayside High School and continued her education, gaining a Bachelor’s Degree from Queens College. After graduation, she was employed for a short time by Equitable Life Insurance …

The 100th anniversary celebration for the Kingston Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 continued on October 5 with a short program and a barbecue. The celebrations began with a dinner on February 29, the actual day in 1924 on which the fire company was started.

More than 1,000 high school students ventured out to the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens on Somerset Street October 5 to meet with representatives of colleges and trades in the church’s second annual College Fair. The goal of the event, said the Rev. Danté Quick, the church’s pastor, is to “expose young people to future opportunities around higher education …