The township’s dormant “Green Team” was re-established by the Township Council at the Jan. 12 meeting. The council passed a resolution to rekindle the team and appoint its members.

Unity Bank, which has a branch on Cedar Grove Lane in Somerset, topped all Small Business Administration lenders in New Jersey during the year that ended September 30, 2015, with $41,769,400 in SBA loans. The bank’s loan volume increased nearly 147 percent from the prior year’s total of $16,914,500, according to a release from the company. Unity Bank and other lenders will be …

Bridgewater, NJ- The Somerset Patriots have announced the hiring of Glen Barker as the team’s new hitting/ third base coach for the 2016 season.  

More than 400 people gathered at the Doubletree Hotel on Atrium Drive Jan. 18 for the township’s annual celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Franklin Township Community Breakfast is also a fund raiser for a scholarship program targeting graduating Franklin High School seniors. To date, the event has raised more than $146,000, which has been …

Eight boys’ basketball teams from around the region – including the Franklin High School Warriors – will converge at FHS Jan. 30 for a tournament to raise money for U.S.veterans. Conceived by FHS boys’ basketball coach Corey Floyd, the “Hoops for Troops Basketball Classic” also includes teams from Gill St. Bernards, Bedford Academy in Brooklyn, N.Y., Rutgers Prep, Somerville, St. …

Submitted by Mary Clark, School District Spokeswoman. About 30 members of the Franklin Township Referendum Steering Committee were “On the Move” Jan. 14 in the Franklin Middle School Library. This group of district and school administrators, parents, teachers, Board of Education Members, and township leaders met to discuss how best to communicate information about the implementation of the district’s One Less …

Submitted by Terrence J. Ladd, Rutgers Prep Director of Marketing and Communications. The Rutgers Prep girls’ basketball team continued its so-far-undefeated season Jan. 14 with a 69-21 victory over Hillsborough High School, earning coach Mary Klinger her 500th win.

Bridgewater, NJ- Big Apple Circus returns to Bridgewater, New Jersey for the company’s 38th season with the New Jersey Premiere of The Grand Tour! Tickets start at $25, and the show runs from February 12 – March 13, 2016 under the Big Top at TD Bank Ballpark, 1 Patriots Park (GPS: 860 East Main Street) Bridgewater, NJ. To purchase tickets …

A 1997 Franklin High School graduate will be honored next month by a national organization for her work in the intelligence community. Zalenda Cyrille has won the 2016 Edwin H. Land Industry Award from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a “a non-profit, non-partisan, public-private organization that works to promote and recognize the highest standards within the national security and …

Submitted by the YingHua International School. Renovation is underway at the historic Laurel Avenue School (c. 1920 with addition c. 1950) at the northeast corner of Laurel Avenue and Union Street in Kingston. The building, owned by Franklin Township, has been unoccupied with boarded windows for more than 10 years. It was last used as an elementary school in approximately 1997. …