By Mayor Phil Kramer.  Citizens of Franklin Township along with citizens throughout our country have been stirred to raise their voices in recent days. Not only due to the incredible act of inhumanity leveled against George Floyd, but also due to the continuing inequality and injustice which still too frequently occurs in today’s society. Citizens of all races and ethnic …

By Dr. Namik Sercan. The CJCP Board of Trustees, administration, and staff are devastated by recent incidents of police brutality and racial violence in several communities around our nation. It is a very emotional and problematic time in our  country right now, which requires immediate and tangible actions from all segments of our community in unity  and solidarity. Just like the ones that happened …

The investigation continues into a June 4 car crash on Easton Avenue that left one township man dead and another Franklin resident injured. Police said Marlene Martin of Somerset, 76, was attempting a left turn from Easton onto Girard Avenue in her 2008 Nissan Rogue when she collided with a 1999 Hyundai Elantra driven by Alexander Macniven, 23, also of …

There was one new positive test result for the coronavirus among township residents in the previous 24 hours, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on June 6. That brings the total number of township residents who have tested positive for the disease since mid-March to 1,221, according to OEM. Two positive results were erroneously repeated earlier in the week, …

Two township 19-year-old men have been charged in connection with the May 2019 murder of another Franklin man near the Franklin Greens apartment complex. One of the men surrendered at the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office on June 3, while the other was charged the same day at the Somerset County Jail, Somerville, where he was being held on an unrelated …

The number of Franklin Township residents who have tested positive for the coronavirus has increased by two in the previous 24 hours, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on June 4. That brings the total number of township residents who have tested positive to 1,220. There were no new deaths attributed to the virus in the last 24 hours, …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally, in a letter representing the district’s senior leadership team, said they wanted to assure the district that they “are motivated to bring change to the systemic racism that has oppressed Black and Brown people in this country for far too long.” (File photo). The color of a person’s skin “should not dictate how one is treated …

Karen Duffy laughs with two nurses after she was taken from an ambulance that brought her home after a month-long battle against the coronavirus. Karen Duffy’s homecoming on June 3 was a noisy affair. It wasn’t just the cheering and applause from family and friends who had gathered on her front lawn to welcome her home, and it wasn’t the …

A township official said 72 people were tested for the coronavirus June 3 at this drive-thru site at Franklin Middle School-Hamilton Street campus. Now that the first one is under their belts, the township may schedule more “pop-up” coronavirus testing sites like the one it held on June 3 in the Franklin Middle School-Hamilton Street campus’s parking lot. That was …

One more township resident tested positive for the coronavirus over the previous 24 hours, the township Office of Emergency Management reported on June 3. There were no new deaths attributed to the disease in that time period, OEM said. That brings the total number of positive tests of Franklin residents to 1,218, according to OEM. Test samples for the coronavirus …