A 45-year-old New Brunswick man has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman in the township. Fernando Nunez-Genao was charged with 2nd Degree sexual assault in connection with the Dec. 4 incident, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

Take some elements of tennis, throw in a little essence of badminton and combine with a soupçon of ping-pong, and what do you get? Pickleball, of course.

Bridgewater, NJ – Chairman Steve Kalafer and the Somerset Patriots presented the Somerset County Board of Chosen Freeholders with the Community Leadership All-Star Award at the team’s annual holiday reception for marketing partners on Wednesday, December 9th.  

The Township Council Dec. 8 presented commendations to a number of students who won a township-wide poster contest, and to two of its own. The students won commendations for their entries in the annual Red Ribbon Poster Contest. Red Ribbon Week is a national substance abuse prevention campaign run in schools.

  The two rivals for the mayor’s seat agreed on one thing at the final Township Council meeting of 2015: Donald Trump is not welcome in Franklin.

Anytime Fitness has signed a lease for a second, state-of-the-art location in the Crossroads at Somerset shopping center off Elizabeth Avenue. The 5,500-square-foot gym will join the chain’s first township location at 920 Hamilton Street.

Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the suspected shooter of a Bordentown resident on Franklin Boulevard. The 44-year-old man was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at a local hospital, after he had taken himself to the facility, according to a press release on the incident from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office.

This winter the Somerset County Park Commission (SCPC) Environmental Education Center will pilot a new school field trip program called Finding Answers in Nature. This program was made possible through an Eco Grant from 3M and the Somerset County Park Foundation, and includes $5,000 in scholarships available to Title 1 schools for transportation costs. Finding Answers in Nature uses the …

There was dancing, there was singing, there were goodies.

The township school district strutted its stuff Dec. 5 in the second annual “Franklin’s Finest” showcase at Franklin High School. For more than there hours, visitors were shown what the district believes is the best Franklion schools have to offer.