The township resident responsible for replacing the painted U.S. map on the St Matthias School parking lot was formally inducted as an Eagle Scout on Nov. 18. Brendan McCann, a member of Troop 113, sponsored by Somerset Presbyterian Church, was given his Eagle Scout Court of Honor at the church.

A Franklin Township Police officer who shot a man who had broken into his home was one of the state PBA’s “Valor Award” recipients Nov. 18. Officer Keith Hermann was one of 11 state PBA members to win the association’s “Bronze” award.

The inability to get a necessary part, coupled with the need for businesses to stay open, has forced the township to leave a broken water main running along Easton Avenue. The main, located on Easton Avenue in the area of the Village Plaza, has been broken since sometime on Nov. 16.

Police are investigating the Nov. 14 shooting of two Franklin Township residents as they sat in a car on Winston Drive. Both unidentified men, aged 23 and 24 years, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to a press release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

Gov.-elect Phil Murphy has tapped a township resident to serve on his transition team. Ed Potosnak, the current Board of Education president and executive director of the New Jersey League of Conservation Voters, will sit on Murphy’s Environment and Energy committee.

The township Shade Tree Commission is preparing for its 2018 tree sale. Orders for the sale will be taken on the commission’s web site beginning Dec. 1.

Peter Muniz was born in New York City where he lived until 1964 when he moved his family to Somerset. He earned his BS and MBA from City University while working at Western Electric in Newark. In 1969 Mr. Muniz founded Peter Muniz & Co. He was a pioneer in the field of cultural awareness in the work place, providing …

Nov. 9 A Carriage Trail resident told police that someone entered her home and stole her purse, and the $11 cash in it. Nov. 10

A Franklin resident won a first place award in the 2017 “Show us Somerset County Through Your Camera Lens” sponsored by the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders and the Somerset County Business Partnership. Corrine Evans Prochazka won first place in the professional classification of the Architecture and Urban Design category.

Marian Lyon, 87, passed Tuesday, November 14th, at her home in Somerset, NJ. Mrs. Lyon was born August 06, 1930 in New Brunswick, to the late Lawrence and Elizabeth (Sickoll) Melick. She was a longtime resident of Somerset and parishioner of St. Joseph church in Hillsborough. She is survived by her cousins James Scaletti of Somerset, NJ and Jaye Page …