Environment

Jess Niederer of Chickadee Creek Farm, explaining her winter lettuce production efforts and high tunnel use recommendations, will be both on film and in person to present at the workshop and answer any questions. Niederer was named the 2016 National Outstanding Young Farmer from the Outstanding Farmers of America. Photo: Jeff Heckman Submitted by Rutgers Cooperative Extension. Rutgers Cooperative Extension …

Unveiling the 2015 Garden of Excellence Award at the Rudolf W. van der Goot Rose Garden are (l to r) Horticulture Supervisor Shauna Moore; Freeholder Director Pat Walsh; Dr. Suni Bolar; Lois Fowkes of the World Federation of Rose Societies; Former Governor and Park Commission President Don DiFrancesco; and Horticulture Manager Jim Avens. At an Oct. 7 ceremony at the …

Bunker Hill Environmental Center environmentalist and Franklin Park School teacher Emily Amon shows MacAfee Road School students a Praying Mantis. She later released the insect. The Bunker Hill Environmental Center was re-opened to township students Sept. 20, with a group of MacAfee Road School 3rd Graders leading the way. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you …

Navjot Singh, a triple winner in the 2016 Trails Advisory Committee photo contest, talks about his photographs at the Sept. 14 meeting. Winners of the 2016 Trails Advisory Committee Photo Contest were announced at the Sept. 14 meeting. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. …

Mayor Phillip Kramer reads the Township Council’s resolution opposing the gas compressor station outside the Senior/Community Center. More than 200 people showed up Sept. 15 at the Senior/Community Center to give their opinions about the siting of a natural gas compression station in the southern part of the township. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings …

A flower and garden photography workshop is set for Colonial Park’s perennial garden. The Somerset County Park Commission Horticulture Department at the Colonial Park Gardens has scheduled a fall “Flower & Garden Photography Workshop” from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, September 17. The session will take place in the Colonial Park Perennial Garden, Parking Lots A, F.. Don’t Miss …

The Colonial Park gazebo. Photo: Somerset County Park Commission. Autumn is almost here and the Somerset County Park Commission’s Perennial Garden, located in the Colonial Park Gardens, Lot F, is approaching peak bloom. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the …

The township Environmental Commission has panned a Davidson Avenue company’s plan to remove more than 5,000 trees to build a solar farm. A township company’s plan to create a 9-acre solar farm has gained an unlikely opponent – the township Environmental Commission. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by …

Tribute Benches provided a lasting memorial in the Somerset County Parks. Photo: Somerset County Park Commission. The Somerset County Park Foundation is providing an opportunity to pay tribute to family and close friends through a donation of a tree or park bench at a location within the Somerset County Park system. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin …

L’Oreal Franklin recently donated rain barrels, such as this one, to the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association. Photo: Franklin Township Environmental Commission. Submitted by the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Association. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving …