The Somerset County Park Commission’s Colonial Park Gardens Horticulture staff is offering a “Holiday Kissing Ball Workshop” on Saturday, December 5, 2015 from 10:00 A.M. to noon at the Park Commission Headquarters located at North Branch Park, 355 Milltown Road in Bridgewater. Staff will show participants methods to create a beautiful holiday kissing ball using fresh floral and evergreen materials …

Hundreds of parishioners at St. Matthias Roman Catholic Church showed up Nov. 22 to congratulate their priest on his 25 years at their pulpit. The Rev. Douglas J. Haefner said he was “humbled” by the response to his anniversary.

You could say that Nicholette Coy has been preparing for this moment since she was 13 years old. That’s when Coy, the owner of Shear Luxury salon on Route 27, first started doing hair.

Hundreds of students “went for the gavel” Nov. 21 at the fifth annual Franklin High School Model U.N. conference. The students came from high school from throughout the region to participate in the one-day conference seen as a practice run for the large, multi-day conferences held at colleges across the country.

The body of a former Elizabeth Avenue School assistant principal was found Nov. 22 more than 300 feet below the cliffs of the State Line Lookout area in the Palisades, police said. Police recovered the body of John Norton, 35, of Palisades, early in the morning, after resuming a search from the prior day that had to be called off because of …

The 2015 Christmas season has begun, at least over in Zarephath.

The Fall drama presentation at Franklin High School is the children’s fantasy, “The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.”

Hillcrest Elementary School is losing its principal, but Sampson G. Smith Intermediate School is getting one. And they are the same person.

By Dr. Sayed M. Rizvi, Clifton. The recent terrorism in Paris is sadly yet another heinous, deplorable and inhumane attack on humanity. These acts of hate and evil need to be confronted and halted one way or the other. Everyone, be it regular citizens, the government or members of a particular faith, must come in unison to stop these atrocious …

Late-night patrons of Planet Fitness on Easton Avenue were evacuated Nov. 17 when an employee detected an unknown odor. The employee called police at about 10:11 p.m., reporting the odor and smoke, police said.