New Britain, Conn. – Kyle Simon’s impressive pitching performance led the New Britain Bees (17-31) to a 6-1 win over the Somerset Patriots (29-20) Saturday night at New Britain Stadium. New Britain took an early 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first on back-to-back two-out RBI doubles from Craig Maddox and Conor Bierfeldt. The lead later doubled to 4-0 …

Bridgewater, NJ- 2016 Somerset Patriots left-handed pitcher Nik Turley is expected to be promoted to the Major Leagues with the Minnesota Twins. He is scheduled to make his MLB debut on Sunday against the San Francisco Giants.   Turley began the 2017 season with Double-A Chattanooga, where he made five appearances (three starts) and yielded just one run over 24.1 …

A half-dozen Franklin Township police officers joined their colleagues across the state June 9 in running a stage of the 2017 Law Enforcement Torch Run for the NJ Special Olympics. The officers ran with a contingent of South Brunswick police officers from their starting point at Bennington Parkway and Route 27. Accompanied by police cars and a support van, the …

PRINCETON – They came in dresses, gowns, tuxedos and suits; color-coordinated or celebrating their own style. The occasion was the 2017 Franklin High School prom, held at the Westin Princeton at Forrestal Village, here. The required fashion accessory of the night for the men seemed to be sunglasses; mirror shades, flip-ups, traditional sunglasses, it didn’t matter. The girls, as usual, …

Bridgewater, NJ- The Bridgeport Bluefish (27-21) defeated the Somerset Patriots (28-19) 4-1 at TD Bank Ballpark on Thursday night.   Somerset scored their lone run in the bottom of the second on an RBI groundout by Tyler Bortnick.   The Bluefish tied up the game in the fifth inning on an RBI single by Angel Rosa.   Bridgeport took the lead with …

Diamond Miller said she got a little surprise during the first preliminary game of the FIBA U16 Women’s Americas Championship in Argentina. The Franklin High School standout is playing on the U.S. National Women’s U16 team in the tournament. The U.S. handily defeated Colombia in that round on June 7, 91-33. “International basketball is definitely different than high school basketball,” …

Township residents who are incumbent Democrats at the state and local levels handily beat back challenges in the June 6 primary election. Deputy Mayor Carl Wright (D-Ward 4) and state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17) came up big winners in the voting. Danielsen was joined in the winners’ circle by his running mates, state Assemblyman Joe Egan and state Sen. Bob …

Bridgewater, NJ-   The Bridgeport Bluefish (26-20) defeated the Somerset Patriots (27-18) 5-3 in ten innings at TD Bank Ballpark on Tuesday evening.   The Bluefish broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the tenth inning on a two-run double by D’Arby Myers for the final score.   Trailing 3-2 in the bottom of the eighth inning, Greg Golson tied …

“I think we need to be public, I think there is little excuse in this day and age to not be.” Those were Mayor Phil Kramer’s words in August, 2016, when he was addressing the Library Board of Trustees, urging them – to put it mildly – to begin recording or televising their meetings. At the time, it had been …

Submitted by Unity Bank. Unity Bank President and CEO James A. Hughes has been elected to the Federal Delegate Board of the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), which represents nearly 6,000 community banks nationally. “I am honored to be elected the New Jersey delegate to ICBA,” Hughes said. “It gives me a chance to work for community banks across …