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Anytime Fitness in the Franklin Court Shopping Plaza on Hamilton Street is celebrating its first anniversary throughout May by offering free outdoor exercise classes. Called “Free Workout Saturdays,” the classes, designed for people at every fitness level, will start at 10 a.m. in the plaza’s overflow parking lot.

A group of township Girl Scouts visited the Willow Creek Rehabilitation and Care Center April 18 to get hands-on lessons in physical and occupational therapies. The scouts – about 23 from various troops in the township – spent the day performing exercises and learning about the equipment used in different therapies.

The Hamilton Street Improvement District’s amended $72,000 budget for 2015 was approved April 14 by the Township Council. There was some dissent expressed by business owners, who said they were frustrated over 10 years of contributing to the SID without any tangible returns.

Three township non-profit organizations are among 19 in the running to receive up to $2,000 from Unity Bank in the bank’s “Join Forces” campaign. One winner and one runner-up will win in each of four categories, based on the number of votes the organizations receive: youth, housing, arts and animal advocacy.

A township resident has been appointed a trustee of the Rutgers Business School Alumni Association (RBSAA). Kenneth Hitchner, manager of public relations and social media at Creative Marketing Alliance (CMA), a full-service marketing firm located in Princeton Junction, will join the board as co-chairman of the communications committee.

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.

Dr. Joseph Haddad of Advanced Dental Arts of Somerset has signed on as a Bronze Sponsor of the second annual NJ Walks for TS at Princeton on Sunday, March 29. NJ Walks for TS is a day of fun, awareness, acceptance and advocacy, according to a press release about the donation from the New Jersey Center for Tourette Syndrome and …

Michele Ferrero, patriarch of the international company that bears his name and makes Tic-Tac candies and Nutella hazelnut spread, died in Monte Carlo on Valentine’s Day, according to published reports. His family’s company has its United States’ headquarters on Cottontail Lane in Somerset.

First Bank branches – including the branch at DeMott Lane and New Brunswick Road in Somerset – donated a record amount of time and money in 2014 to the communities that they serve, according to findings released today from the company’s corporate citizenship program. First Bank tracks “corporate giving” to ensure that its philanthropy grows along with its assets, according to …

Providing employees of small- and medium-sized business with peace of mind when emergencies strike is the mission of a new company co-founded by a township woman. Creative Backup Care Options co-founder and CEO, Bernadette Fusaro, and her Colorado-based partner, Tracy Cutler, are parlaying their experience in the industry to bring a backup care benefit to businesses on both coasts.