The Franklin Food Bank’s 28th annual Tour de Franklin Charity Bike Ride is set for April 30. The first bike ride of the season for many cyclists, the Tour de Franklin is also a day when avid cyclists and the Franklin community join together for a common mission, to fight local hunger through supporting the Franklin Food Bank.

Bridgewater, NJ – The Somerset Patriots have announced that three-time Atlantic League All-Star outfielder Aharon Eggleston has been re-signed for the 2017 season.  

Submitted by Suzanne Kafas. The Franklin High School Wind Ensemble participated in the Rutgers University Mid-Atlantic Band Festival Feb. 17 at the Nicholas Music Center on Douglas Campus.

Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School held its 2017-18 school year lottery Feb. 18, albeit under the cloud of civil rights complaints and calls for its closure. The school was looking for students to fill its Kindergarten class, as well as determine the order of the waiting lists for First Grade through Ninth Grade.

Members of the East Franklin Fire Department spent Feb. 18 washing cars for a good cause. The fire fighters were raising money for the family of Finderne Fire Company #3 Ex-Chief Craig Ally, whose 3-year-old daughter, Sadie, is suffering from kidney cancer.

The Franklin High School Lady Warriors basketball team struggled for most of the game in their Somerset County Tournament semi-final game loss Feb. 18 to Gil St. Bernards. Gill won the game handily, 69-55, and will now face top-seeded Rutgers Prep in the finals at FHS.

Mrs. Beatrice R. Spulick passed away Feb. 17 in Cranbury. She was 82 years old. Born in Cumberland Center, Maine to Ernest and Hazel Frye, Beatrice lived for a time in Piscataway before settling in Somerset in 1960. Mrs. Spulick worked as a switchboard operator at Robert Wood Johnson University Medical Center in New Brunswick for more than 34 years, …

Students and parents gathered at Central Jersey College Prep Charter School Feb. 17 to celebrate the world’s cultures. Sponsored by the school’s PTSO, the inaugural International Day spotlighted students and some guest performers highlighting different cultures through song, dance and spoken word.

Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots have announced that left-handed pitcher Jeremy Bleich has been signed by the Arizona Diamondbacks.  

A South Plainfield company that supplies hardware to window and door manufacturers will soon move into the township, thanks to Planning Board approval it won on Feb. 15. The company, Vision Industries Group, will occupy a two-story, office/warehouse building on Elizabeth Avenue, abutting the Heller Industrial Park.