Mrs. Stephanie Robicheau passed away June 25 at Green Knoll Care Center in Bridgewater. She was 64 years old. Mrs. Robicheau was born in Massachusetts but lived most of her life in Franklin Township. She graduated from Franklin High School and worked at her family’s Stewart’s Restaurant on Easton Avenue. She later was employed by the Franklin Township Board of …

Nearly 400 purple hats made by local knitters– including a contingent from the Franklin Woman’s Club – will be donated to Prevent Child Abuse NJ. Knitters recently gathered at the township library’s Franklin Park branch to make the hats during the 2018 World Wide Day of Public Knitting, according to a press release from the group.

A Somerset woman was elected chairperson of the New Jersey Association of Women Business Owners’ Central Region Leadership Team. Bertha Robinson, owner of Star One Professional Services, was elected along with other officers on June 18, according to a release from the organization.

Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots have signed Major League infielder Jermaine Curtis for the 2018 season. He is active for Tuesday night’s game against the New Britain Bees. Curtis enters his first season with the Somerset Patriots and first in the Atlantic League. The former fifth-round draft pick spent the first seven years of his professional career in the St. …

  Half of the deficiencies that threatened to scuttle necessary state environmental permits for a natural gas pipeline project, before an 11th-hour withdrawal of the permit applications, were connected to the part of that project which falls in Franklin Township.

A township 4th Grader will be among the students taking part in an academic and career-oriented educational program this summer. Kimberly Osenenko, a student at Elizabeth Avenue Elementary School, will participate in “National Youth Leadership Forum: Pathways to STEM,” a program in Philadlephia presented by Envision, a company that develops education programs for students in elementary school through college.

By Arnold W. Schmidt, Somerset The placement in Franklin Township of life size statues and busts of Mother Theresa, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela for a proposed Peace and Non-Violence park is being hotly debated and is potentially divisive.

BRIDGEWATER – June 23 at TD Bank Ballpark was all about Franklin Township schools. It was the annual Franklin Schools Night, and township students, teachers and staff showed their pride. Representatives from various township schools were able to parade around the ball park’s perimeter prior to the Somerset Patriots’ game.

Wheaton College student Aaron Policastro of Franklin Park recently performed in the 2018 Commencement Celebration Concert. Policastro played double bass with the Symphony Orchestra. Heather Attanasio of Somerset has been named to the President’s List at West Virginia University for the Spring 2018 semester. Attanasio just completed her freshman year and is majoring in Nursing.

Charlotte Hall passed away June 21 at Parker at McCarrick Care Center in Somerset. She was 92 years old. Ms. Hall was born in New Brunswick and was a graduate of New Brunswick High School. She moved to Somerset in 1966. She was a lifelong parishioner of St. Peter the Apostle Church in New Brunswick and a member of the …