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The Hamilton Street Advisory Board will ask the Township Council for a modification to the township’s anti-graffiti ordinance. Board members decided at their April 3 meeting to make a suggestion that the ordinance’s compliance time be shortened from 90 days to 30 days.

The Garden State Exhibit and Convention Center on Atrium Drive will soon close its doors, but the building will not be vacant for long. The online retail store 6th Avenue Electronics will purchase the building and plans to move its Schoolhouse Road warehouse into the 72,000-square-foot space, according to an application filed with the township’s planning department.

Regal Bank will purchase the Elizabeth Avenue branch of New Millennium Bank, the institutions announced Feb. 13. According to a press release about the deal, it is anticipated that Regal will assume about $32 million in deposits from New Millennium, a figure subject to the actual value of deposits at the time of closing. The remainder of the branch’s deposits, …

A global technology company with a laboratory in the township was recently presented with a technology and engineering Emmy Award. OFS, based in Norcross, Ga., was given the award for “contributions toward the pioneering invention and deployment of fiber optic cable,” according to a press release from the company.

After the most recent attempt to decorate the street didn’t go exactly as planned, the Hamilton Street Advisory Board on Jan. 9 decided to start planning for this year early. The plan last year was for holiday lights to be strung across the street in the business district, in spots where there were opposing utility poles. The board had hoped …

Unity Bank employees donated more than 220 volunteer hours to two organizations under the bank’s recently introduced Employee Volunteer Program. The two organizations were  America’s Grow-A-Row  and NORWESCAP received from 40 bank employees, according to a press release from the bank.

Regal Bank will open a Somerville branch at 151 Adamsville Rd. on Jan. 9. The branch will occupy the former PNC Bank building, according to a release from Regal Bank.

High school and college graduates looking to learn a vocation have another choice in the township. The American Institute formally opened its doors with a Jan. 4 ribbon-cutting at its new school, located at 80 Cottontail Lane.

Submitted by Einhorn Harris. A township resident was recently installed as president of the National Filipino American Lawyers Association.

The Somerset branch of Unity Bank recently donated $1,100 to the Franklin Food Bank as part of a company wide donation program. The bank, hardhearted in Clinton, and its employees have donated a total of $18,700 to 17 food pantries in New Jersey and Easton, Pa., which amounts to one service organization for each Unity branch, according to a press …