The Entrepreneur and dfree ministries of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens are holding a networking  party from 6:30-8 p.m. Sept. 10 at the church, 771 Somerset St. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held in the church’s C.H. Brown Jr. Memorial Fellowship Hall. “dfree” is a “First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens solutions-based …

Dawn Valdata walked in to her 2nd Grade classroom in Franklin Park School earlier this week and asked herself the same question she’s asked the past 11 years. “Where do I start?” Valdata, like her colleagues throughout the school district and in private schools located in the township, spent the week putting her classroom together in anticipation of next week’s …

  A portion of Hamilton Street was closed for several hours Wednesday after a tractor-trailer overturned at Veronica Avenue, dumping a 90,000-pound concrete form into the intersection. No one was injured in the 6:35 a.m. accident, police said. The tractor was driven by Ronald Kinmon, 57, of Bay Minette Alabama. Police blocked off Hamilton Street between Veronica Avenue and JFK …

A township man remains in the Somerset County Jail after being charged Sept. 3 with the attempted murder of a woman in her apartment. Ahmed Taylor-Kamara, 26, of Arlington Avenue, was charged with 1st Degree Attempted Murder and 3rd Degree Possession of a Weapon for Unlawful Purposes, according to a release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Bail for Taylor-Kamara …

Somerset County is preparing to replace one of its bridges on Bennetts Lane, work that will close a portion of the road for about four months. The bridge, which has been declared “structurally deficient” and “functionally obsolete,” is located less than a mile north of Route 27, and spans an unnamed tributary of the Six Mile Run. There’s no start …

A South Middlebush Road dairy farmer is once again farming a plot at Mettlers and Weston roads. Bob Puskas, of Middlebsh Farms, was the winning bidder of the lease to the 40-acre, county owned plot. Puskas’ winning bid of $495 a year for each of the next five years – starting Jan.1 – won’t boost the county’s coffers much, but …

Politicians and business leaders will gather Sept. 21 for the 41st running of the Robert G. Ransone Golf Classic at Raritan Valley Country Club, Route 28, Raritan. What began in 1972 as a way to open up channels of communication between government and the business community has grown into the longest continually running golf event in the county, according to …

Tickets are still available for the limited weekend engagement of “Greater Tuna,” the two-man play set in the fictional town of Tuna, Texas, at the Villagers Barn Theatre, DeMott Lane. “Greater Tuna” is actually the first in a series of four comedies set in that fictional burb, with the others being “A Tuna Christmas,” “Red, White and Tuna” and “Tuna …

Teachers are busy getting their classrooms ready in the 12 new portable units in place throughout the school district. The portables, which have been leased for five years at a cost of about $3 million, are needed to handle overcrowding in the schools, said schools Superintendent Edward Seto. Sampson G. Smith School received its first two portables, and the Elizabeth …

County parks officials are reviewing four bids for a new, 40-foot pavilion, slated for Colonial Park. The structure, which has been budgeted at $225,000, is designed to be placed near the baseball diamond along Mettlers Road. The bidders in the running for the project are Louis Barbato Landscaping of Holbrook, NY, which bid $208,333; Whirl Construction of Port Monmouth, which …