Mrs. Olga Fama passed away on June 15 at the Bridgeway Care Center in Bridgewater. She was 95 years old. Mrs. Fama was born in the family home on Churchill Avenue in Franklin Township. She remained a lifetime resident of Franklin. She graduated from New Brunswick High School and went to work at Diehl Manufacturing in Finderne as a member …

Newkirk and Evergreen Resurfacing -Concrete work to begin on or about June 16, weather permitting. Milling and paving will begin when concrete work is completed. Rodgers Ave Area Resurfacing -All paving completed. Restoration and striping still to be completed.

EXPLAINING THE INCREASE – Mayor Phil Kramer explained the different tiers of the proposed water rate hikes at the June 12 meeting. Water rates will increase this year between 5 percent and 27.5 percent under an ordinance amendment approved at the June 24 Township Council meeting. The actual amount of each water increase would be based on a user’s consumption of …

More than 150 people gathered in and around the township Cultural Arts Gazebo June 12 to renew their opposition to a project they thought they’d already defeated. The group rallied in the wake of the decision by Texas-based Williams-Transco to petition the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to reinstate their three-state project that would include building a 32,000-horsepower, natural gas-powered twin-turbine …

By Steve Wright. I find it hard to understand the rationale for sharing the ethnicity of suspected crimes committed by ‘Black’ people and not the ethnicity of those arrested of other nationalities? Certainly, the police blog showed the nationality of the 38-year-old Belle Mead man arrested for DWI or the arrest of a 42-year-old Egg Harbor Township man for outstanding …

POET LAUREATE – Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, reads from her book at the June 10 publishing party. Princess Dumbuya, Franklin High School’s first Poet Laureate, was all smiles June 10 in the high school library. Dumbuya, a Senior, welcomed guests to the publishing party of her book, “A Bouquet of Verses,” an anthology of poems written …

READY TO COUNT – Ballot tabulations being dropped off to the municipal building on June 10. Local incumbent candidates appear to be leading in their races for their party’s nominations, according to unofficial results from the 2025 primary election on June 10. Township Councilman Carl Wright (D-Ward 4) and state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17) were the only candidates facing primary …

05/25/2025 A Somerset resident was the victim of a robbery in the area of Home St. during the overnight hours. The victim was assaulted by four unknown Black males while walking home. The suspects took the victim’s ID, debit card and $680. They fled in a gray vehicle.

JoAnn Zavodnick, of Somerset, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her loving family. She was 71. Born in Newark, NJ to the late Dominick Lopizzo and Maria “Teddy” Conway, née Gaber, she spent her youth in Metuchen. She moved to Somerset in the late 1970s before moving to Waretown, then back to Somerset in 2019. JoAnn loved reading, baking …

Central Jersey College Prep (CJCP) announced that for the fifteenth straight school year, 100 percent of its senior class will be graduating on time this Spring and that every member of the Class of ‘25 has also been accepted to a college or university next fall, continuing an unprecedented senior class streak for CJCP which began in 2011.   This …