Name: Raleigh Steinhauer Street Address: 49 Pinecrest Drive Section of Town You Live In: Somerset If not, have you held any elected position before, and if so, what: I have been a Committee person for my district since 2008. Do you belong to any civic organizations: Volunteer for Second Chance for Animals in Franklin. What do you see as your …

Dear Fellow Franklin Township Residents: I would like to address the misinformation that has been posted and spread about me. My opponents and their community supporters have been spewing slanderous and false allegations about me, I promise you that none of what they are saying is true. I do not feel the need to retaliate against them in such a …

An Englishtown-based developer on Oct. 31 won Zoning Board of Adjustment permission to build a gas station/convenience store and small retail building at the corner of Hamilton Street and Veronica Avenue. But before he can start digging, the developer, Felix Bruselovsky, will have to return to the board for site plan approval, which will include an agreement on the gas …

A misty, rainy day like today (Oct. 31) is just the kind of day hunters and hikers in the Griggstown area would report sightings of what became known as the Griggstown Ghost Cow. Starting in about the early 1970s, people who found themselves in the Millstone River floodplain, especially on the D&R canal towpath and near the Griggstown canal lock …

Cars driven by Carlos Aguilar-Gutierrez of Easton, Pa. and Kelsey Ayers of East Brunswick side-swiped each other while driving on Cortelyous Lane. Both drivers told police the other was driving in the center of the road. § William Cuper of Sacramento, Cal. told police that he did not realize that the car ahead of his was stopped for an ambulance …

The 18th Annual Somerset County Park Commission’s 5K Turkey Trot at Colonial Park is set for 9:30 a.m. Nov. 16. The event is sanctioned and certified by U.S. Track & Field and is valued at 500 New Jersey Grand Prix points. There will also be a 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk, staring at 9 a.m. Pre-registration, postmarked before Nov. 2, is …

Anthony Strachan-Butler of Somerset was cited Oct. 28 for careless driving after the car he was driving rear-ended another one, driven on Easton Avenue by Alan Olegario of Piscataway. Strachan-Butler told police he was trying to change lanes when the collision occurred. § A power washed valued at $400 and four cans of gasoline valued at $120 were reported stolen …

The annual Halloween curfew is in effect for the township. That means that children under the age of 18 years cannot be out in pubic between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m. The curfew went into effect on Oct. 18. Parents of minors who break curfew are also liable under the township ordinance.

Two Minetta Drive women were arrested Oct. 25 on drug related charges after police found more than $17,000 worth of marijuana in the basement of their home. Taken into custody, police said, were Donna Walters, 44, and Sheena Brown,  23. Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Organized Crime Task Force detectives and township police executed a search warrant at the house at …

  A contingent of Boy Scouts and American Legion members gathered Oct. 27 at the Veterans Memorial Park for their twice-yearly flag retirement ceremony. The scouts were from Troop 113 and the Legionaries from Post 478, both in Somerset. The ceremony involves cutting the flag into four pieces, then separating the blue field and each of the 13 stripes before …