Submitted by St. Matthias Elementary School. St. Matthias Elementary School has been selected for the 2022 Best of Somerset Award in the Elementary School category by the Somerset Award Program. 

The Franklin High School varsity Boys’ Tennis team’s three seniors were honored May 18 in a ceremony before the match against Phillipsburg. The seniors were Ahmed Zubair, Sean Alexander Edwards and Justin Pride.

Participants in a June, 2020 Juneteenth march in the township. (File photo) The Somerset County Democratic Black Caucus’s first Juneteenth Parade is set for 11 a.m. June 18, with the starting point being the Pine Grove Manor School, 130 Highland Ave. The parade will wend its way up Highland Avenue to Hamilton Street, ending at Naaman Williams Park, 42 Matilda …

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 33 Franklin residents, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on May 18. That brings to 13,499 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 …

Update 2: An arrest in the assault has been made. Police on August 10 charged a 38-year-old Raritan man with this assault, as well as an assault in Bridgewater. The man was arrested on Aug. 4 after he was allegedly caught masturbating in front of children near a bridge in Raritan Borough. Police said they found a bicycle matching a …

Bryan Cranston and Aaron Paul (left to right) sign bottles of their Mezcal, “Dos Hombres,” at Bottle Republic on Easton Avenue on May 17. More than 200 people stood in a line – some for hours – that wrapped around the Easton Franklin Shopping Center at Cedar Grove Lane and Easton Avenue for a chance to “meet and greet” the …

By Arnold Schmidt, Somerset. It appears that after significant pushback from Franklin residents (over 2,000 petition signatures and 100s of social media postings and discussion) the Levin Corporation will soon be submitting a revised application for the Kmart site. The new application may decrease the height (“only” three stories instead of four), and possibly include room for some retail, but they …

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 27 Franklin residents, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on May 17. That brings to 13,466 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 …

Gary John Pultro, Sr., of Somerset passed away on May 15 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. He was 64. Born in New Brunswick, he was a lifelong resident of Franklin Township, graduating from Franklin Township High School. He proudly worked in construction as General Superintendent for Skanska Building USA, based out of New Jersey. Gary served …

Chuck Martin, a member of the Trails Advisory Committee, describes the demonstration plot program to the Environmental Commission on May 16. The Trails Advisory Committee wants to know more about the township’s native grasslands and is looking to the Open Space Advisory Committee for help. The Trails Committee wants to re-establish 10 “demonstration plots” at the Negri Nepote Grasslands Preservation …