Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 28 Franklin residents between September 10 AND 12, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on September 12. There were seven positive tests reported on September 10 and September 11, and 14 new cases reported on September 12, OEM said. That brings to 15,733 the number of Franklin residents who have tested …

Franklin’s Daniel Okafor reacts as he crosses the goal line September 10 during the Warriors’ game against Piscataway. Members of four Franklin High School football championship teams were rooting them on, but that wasn’t enough as the present-day Warriors fell to rival Piscataway 19-14 on September 10. The game for Franklin was highlighted by at times stifling defense, which twice …

Kyle Kavinski, an engineer retained by the applicant, describes the warehouse project to the Planning Board. A developer’s plan to raze four buildings – including a large office building – on Cottontail Lane and put up two warehouses was approved September 7 by a split Planning Board. The two warehouses, which are being built “on spec,” meaning with no set …

Slightly less than half of all Franklin Township Police Department internal affairs investigations opened in 2021 were sustained, with 40 percent of officers who were found to have violated policy or regulations issued a written reprimand or warning, according to statistics released by the state Attorney General’s Office. In total, 44 percent of the complaints opened in 2021 were sustained, …

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 18 Franklin residents, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on September 9. That brings to 15,705 the number of Franklin residents who have tested positive for the virus since mid-March 2020, OEM reported. The deaths of 233 Franklin residents have been attributed to the virus, OEM reported. Note: These are the latest …

Mark Healey, the township’s director of planning, points out various development zones in the township during the Somerset Run Civics Club meeting. Residents of Somerset Run received a primer on the township’s warehouse situation on September 8. The venue was the 55-plus community’s clubhouse, and the setting was a meeting of the Somerset Run Civics Club.

The Franklin High School boy’s soccer team started off the season with a loss, falling to Hunterdon Central 4-0. Hunterdon Central scored two unanswered goals in each of the two halves.

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 48 Franklin residents between September 3 and 8, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on September 8. There were three new cases reported on September 3, none on September 4, 18 on September 5, 14 on September 6, two on September 7 and 11 on September 8, OEM said. That brings …

Gloria F. Feliciano of Somerset passed away on September 3 at the Somerset Woods Rehabilitation & Nursing Center in Somerset. She was 82. Born in Manila, Philippines, she moved to the United States in 1969, settling in Belleville before moving to Somerset in 1984. She worked as a Chemical Engineer in the Philippines. She then worked as a Phlebotomist at …

Elizabeth Avenue School principal Greg Romero greets returning students on the first day of school for the 2022-23 school year. New students weren’t the only ones celebrating their first full year at Elizabeth Avenue School when its doors opened on September 7. The school’s principal, Greg Romero, was also enjoying the first day of his first full year as the …