Coronavirus

The annual MLK Foundation Community Breakfast draws hundreds of Franklin residents. (File photo.) Safety concerns spurred by the surge in Covid-19 cases in the township forced the postponement of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast. The Franklin Township Dr. Martin Luther King Community Foundation, the organization sponsoring the annual breakfast, announced the postponement on January 13. The breakfast …

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 98 Franklin residents, the Township Office of Emergency Management said on January 13. That brings to 11,011 the number of Franklin residents who have tested positive for the virus since mid-March 2020, OEM reported. The deaths of 221 Franklin residents have been attributed to the virus, OEM reported. First Baptist Church of …

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 74 Franklin residents, the Township Office of Emergency Management said on January 12. That brings to 10,913 the number of Franklin residents who have tested positive for the virus since mid-March 2020, OEM reported. The deaths of 221 Franklin residents have been attributed to the virus, OEM reported. First Baptist Church of …

Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 112 Franklin residents, the Township Office of Emergency Management said on January 11. That brings to 10,839 the number of Franklin residents who have tested positive for the virus since mid-March 2020, OEM reported. The deaths of 221 Franklin residents have been attributed to the virus, OEM reported. First Baptist Church of …

Update: We have been told that the January 9 results have been incorporated into the January 10 results. Positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 565 Franklin residents on January 7, 8 and 10, the Township Office of Emergency Management said on January 10. There were 345 positive test results reported on January 7, 89 positive test results reported …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally explained the meeting resolution during the Board’s reorganization session. The remainder of Board of Education meetings for the 2021-22 school year will be held both virtually and in-person, the Board decided at its reorganization meeting. The Board held the hybrid meetings last year, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meetings were switched back to in-person …

In the wake of steadily rising numbers of students and staff testing positive for the coronavirus, the township school district is offering a free weekly Covid-19 testing program to students. Students who wish to participate must register by January 10, according to a January 6 letter to parents from schools Superintendent John Ravally. The latest accounting of staff and students …

The township Stop & Shop supermarkets – like many of their other stores – are now operating under reduced hours, partly due to the impact of Covid-19. The stores’ operating hours are now 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sundays. A spokeswoman for Stop & Shop said the company regularly alters …

Franklin Township broke the 10,000 coronavirus infection mark with the township Office of Emergency Management report January 6 that positive coronavirus test results were reported for another 198 Franklin residents. The death of another Franklin resident was also attributed to the virus. That brings to 10,162 the number of Franklin residents who have tested positive for the virus since mid-March …

Representatives from several schools in the township talked about how they are responding to the latest Covid-19 infection surge on the January 5 edition of the Franklin Reporter & Advocate’s News Hour. Participating in the discussion were Franklin Township Superintendent of Schools John Ravally and Assistant Superintendent Dan Loughren; Donald Seeley, Principal of Cedar Hill Prep School, and Tasha Mosconi, …