SSP Architects and FirstBank announce the 4th annual “Tee Up for Teachers” golf outing, hosted at the Heron Glen Golf Course in Ringoes on June 24. This event, organized to benefit the Franklin Township Warrior Education Foundation (FTWEF), aims to provide vital grants to educators of Franklin Township Public School District, fostering innovative educational programs beyond traditional budget constraints.

NEW PRINCIPAL – Lorri Vaccaro speaks to the Board of Education after she was named the new principal of Hillcrest Elementary School. Hillcrest Elementary School has a new principal. Lorri Vaccaro, a veteran principal from the M orris school district, was named by the Board of Education May 23 to fill the position vacated by longtime Hillcrest principal Albert Fico.

A 19-year-old township man was convicted on May 10 of a charge related to the 2022 beating of a man on Hamilton Street. Yahmir Brown was convicted of 2nd Degree Aggravated Assault, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

STREET WOES – Township Councilman James Vassanella said that he’s noticed that since Covid, overall conditions on the Easton Avenue corridor have declined. Some short-term “fixes” to Easton Avenue traffic issues my be put in place before major reconstruction work is set to begin later this decade. That was the upshot from a May 20 forum on safety issues with …

State Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17) will bring his mobile office to two township library branches in June. The mobile office will be at the library’s Franklin Park branch at 64 Clover Place from 1-4 p.m. on June 10 and at the main branch, 485 DeMott Lane, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 18.

Building on the success of previous year’s parade, the Somerset County Juneteenth Committee will celebrate Juneteenth with a Juneteenth Parade at 11 a.m. June 15. The Grand Marshalls for this year’s parade are Civil Rights Activist Larry Hamm, Chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress and a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, and Bishop George Searight, Founder and Senior …

Sponsored Content. Central Jersey College Prep Charter School (CJCP) announced today that for the fourteenth straight year, 100 percent of its senior class will be graduating on time this Spring and that every member of the class of 2024 has also been accepted to a college or university next Fall, continuing an unprecedented senior class streak for CJCP which began …

Cory Pelzer of Somerset received the BA in Psychology from Wilkes University. The University awarded over 700 bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees at the 77th spring commencement ceremonies held on Saturday, May 18, in the McHale Athletic Center in the Simms Center on Main, 169 South Main Street in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Jay H. Kapadia of Somerset was among seven members of …

Franklin High School students in four science-related clubs held their annual gathering at the high school May 17, an event designed to bolster support for so-called STEM professions. STEM is an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, which are seen as related disciplines.

It was all fun and games – sort of – May 17 when the students of Franklin Middle School’s Sampson G. Smith campus took on the school’s staff in a basketball game. Students and staff alike had the opportunity to display their skills on the court before an appreciative crowd of onlookers.