A Franklin Park School student decorates her pumpkin Oct. 19 during the school’s Unity Day celebration. Although it’s been celebrated for years, Unity Day 2022 was a first for some students at Franklin Park School. The difference? They got to feel what it was like to go pumpkin-picking.

Planning Board chairman Michael Orsini told the applicant’s attorney that he thought their project was too big for the space they had. It’s back to the drawing board for a township church that has wanted since 1999 to raze its building and rise again from the ashes. Macedonia Church of God in Christ was told by the Planning Board that …

The six Senior members of the Franklin High School Cross-Country teams were honored at their Senior Night on October 18. Ken Margolin, the school’s Athletic Director, told the seniors that he was “super, super proud” of what they had accomplished during the season.

Environmental Commissioner Arnold Schmidt said it’s time the township charged developers the actual cost of replacing trees they remove for projects. Developers have been getting off easy for too long when it comes to paying to replace trees they remove for building projects, and something needs to be done about it. So says the township’s Environmental Commission, which moved on …

State Assemblyman Joe Danielsen has written what supporters call the strictest set of laws regulating the concealed carrying of guns in the country. (File photo.) A bill whose supporters say will create the strictest concealed-carry law in the country – and who fully expect it to be challenged in court – was introduced in the state Legislature on October 13. …

The new Middlebush skate park is open. The new Middlebush Park skate park is already garnering attention. The new park, located next to the basketball courts, is smaller than the one it replaced, but is considered by skaters as an upgrade.

Contracts worth more than $430,000 were approved October 11 by the Township Council. The largest of the two, for $363,746.70, was for lighting for a Franklin Township Little League field at the DeKalb Avenue baseball complex.

Ordinances creating a mid-block crosswalk and banning parking on one side of a township road saw Township Council action at the October 11 meeting. The Council approved on second reading an ordinance that creates a mid-block crosswalk on Rutgers Boulevard, near Schoolhouse Road.

Levin vice president Sidney Singer talks to the Planning Board at. the special October 12 meeting. Township residents packed the Council chambers on October 12 for the chance to give the Levin Management Company their thoughts on the plan to turn the former Kmart building in Rutgers Plaza into a four-story apartment building. Those thoughts were not positive.

Rose Gessner, 99, passed away on October 12 at St. Peter’s University Medical Center in New Brunswick. Mrs. Gessner was born July 17, 1923, in New Brunswick to the late Eugene and Rose Vajai. She relocated to Milltown in 1946, before moving to Somerset in 1955. Rose attended Middlebush School in Franklin Township. She began her career at Triangle Cable …