Nov. 10 A Bobcat mini digger valued at $17,000 was stolen from Groundscare Landscaping of Somerville while it was parked on Pierce Street.

The 38th annual Festival of Trees is set for Dec. 4-27, and decorators are being sought to display their handiwork. Individuals, local and civic groups, scout troops, businesses and others are invited to design, decorate and submit a tree for the event, which will be held at the Somerset County Park Commission’s Environmental Education Center, 190 Lord Stirling Rd., Basking …

The 2014-2015 school year violence and vandalism report contained a mixed bag of results. On the one hand, reported violence, weapon and drug infractions and harassment, intimidation and bullying by students decreased in the district as a whole.

Anytime Fitness has teamed up with a celebrity chef to help provide Thanksgiving meals to the needy, and to help people burn off the Thanksgiving meal calories. The fitness company, with a location at Franklin Boulevard and Hamilton Street, has partnered with Chef G. Garvin in producing a #BurnTheTurkey recipe collection that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at exercise.

With the atrocities of ISIS in Paris and elsewhere fresh in their memories, Muslims who gathered at a township mosque Nov. 14 were told that they must “build bridges” in their communities. The event was the annual interfaith program at Masjid-e-Ali Mosque to honor the life of Imam Husain Ibn Ali, a 7th Century figure who, with about 70 of his …

The roof on the school district’s administration building on Amwell Road needs to be replaced, the Board of Education was told at its Nov. 12 work session. “The roof is leaking pretty badly,” schools Superintendent John Ravally told the board.

The new elementary school on Claremont Road will pay homage to the area’s farming heritage, the Board of Education was told at its Nov. 12 meeting. Representatives from SSP Architectural Group of Bridgewater were on hand for the board’s work session to preview the new school’s design, prior to it being submitted to the state for approval.

A Clinton Street family was burned out of their home the night of Nov. 10 by what fire officials are calling an electrical fire. Police received a 9-1-1 call reporting a fire shortly after 11 p.m., according to a press release on the fire.

Three township residents arrived at Veterans’ Memorial Park before 11 a.m. on Nov. 11 to find that the annual commemoration was not going to happen. Rather than just leave, the three decided to hold their own short ceremony.

Despite a continued objection emailed from a member of the township’s historic preservation commission, the Township Council Nov. 10 voted to replace the Hageman House roof with a synthetic material. Tom Gale, vice chairman of the Historic Preservation Advisory Commission, had argued in September that the roof should be replaced with natural slate.