The Somerset branch of Investors Bank continued its sponsorship of the Franklin Youth Initiative with a $10,000 grant. The donation was announced at the March 24 Township Council meeting.

A delegation representing Franklin Township’s Fire District No. 1 – led by State Assemblyman Joe Danelsen (D-17) and his son, Joey – on March 21 donated their hair to a childhood cancer research foundation. The team joined nearly 100 other people from throughout central New Jersey at the North Plainfield Fire Department for the head-shaving event. Danielsen’s team raised more than $39,000 …

A 32-year-old township man wanted for the murder of a Perth Amboy resident was arrested March 20 in Georgia, authorities said. Jahmmel Cephas of Franklin Park was arrested in DeKalb County on charges of murder and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, according to a press release from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Bridgewater, NJ – The Somerset Patriots and Spearhead Staffing have teamed up to hire a Kid CEO for the 2015 season.  

The season ended March 19 for Lady Warriors basketball, but it took the best team in the state to do it. Franklin fell to the Warriors of Manasquan High School 62-52 in a NJSIAA Tournament of Champions semi-final contest, a game that saw the Lady Warriors hold their only lead – by a slim 4 points – for only a few minutes.

The FR&A dropped in on the Franklin High School players’ dress rehearsal of “Jekyll & Hyde,” the award-winning Broadway musical based on a book by Robert Louis Stevenson. The show is about a doctor who brings out the dark side of himself through conducting experiments with chemicals.

Bridgewater, NJ- Somerset Patriots Chairman Steve Kalafer has announced that the team has extended the contract of President/General Manager Patrick McVerry for eight years. The significance of this contract extension is that it will have McVerry in his role for 25 years. The announcement was made at a special luncheon at Wolfgang’s Steakhouse in Somerville, NJ on Wednesday, March 18th. …

Senior Adreana Miller gave a clinic in shooting three-pointers March 17 as she led the Lady Warriors in a 66-38 Tournament of Champions quarter-final blowout of Middletown South in Pine Belt Arena, Toms River. Nearly half of Miller’s 33 points came via the long-distance shot, mostly during the first half. It was back-to-back three-pointers by Miller and Tahira Scott when …

The township is planning to put a small “pocket park” in a wooded section of Arlington Avenue. Township Manager Robert Vornlocker told the Recreation Advisory Committee at its March 11 meeting that the park is still in planning stages.

A plan that would temporarily close New Brunswick Road to replace an aging bridge was endorsed March 10 by the Township Council. The council voted to push the “preliminary preferred plan” to replace the Al’s Brook bridge, which carries New Brunswick Road close to the Cedar Grove Lane intersection.