Environment

The National Weather Service has issued a flood watch for from 10 a.m. April 30 through noon on May 1. Rainfall of between 2 and 4 inches is forecast for the area, which could result in pockets of small stream and river flooding. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented …

Participants at the workshop will learn how to build and install rain barrels. Photo: Franklin Township Environmental Commission. Building and installing rain barrels is the focus of a workshop set for 9 a.m. to noon on May 3 at the Franklin Township Municipal Building, 475 DeMott Lane. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

Spooky Brook Golf Course was named a “Groundwater Guardian Green Site” for 2014. Photo: Somerset County Park Commission Spooky Brook Golf Course in Colonial Park was one of two Somerset County courses named a “2014 Groundwater Guardian Green Site” by the Groundwater Foundation. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented …

Electronic waste can be dropped off 7 a.m. to noon April 22 at WCTC, 78 Veronica Ave. in Somerset. “Somerset County employees look forward to meeting residents and sharing literature with them,” Somerset County Freeholder Patricia Walsh, teh Freeholders’ solid waste management/recycling liaison, said in a release. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

About 40 people gathered the morning of April 12 at the rear of Somerset Village on Easton Avenue to help clean up Seeley’s Brook. Led by the John Clyde, Township Councilman Ted Chase (D-Ward 1), the township Environmental Commission and the Stony Brook-Millstone Watershed Alliance, the group – which included Brownies from Troop 60607 – climbed up and down the …

Township Shade Tree Commissioners Chris Williams, left, and Bob Hudak, center, discuss care of a tree being picked up by township resident Samar Patel, right. More than 50 trees were scheduled April 5 to be picked up by residents during the township Shade Tree Commission’s annual sale. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

An Earth Day display designed to “educate the public about the technology and benefits of solar energy in saving energy and improving our environment” is running at the Franklin Township Public Library, 485 DeMott Lane, Somerset, through April 30. The Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity’s Theta Psi Lambda chapter’s Green Committee has partnered with Green Power Energy of Annandale and the …

Flooding caused by heavy rain flooded the Blackwells Mills Causeway March 30. Update 2: The Blackwells Mills and Griggstown causeways were reopened early in the morning of April 2. 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 …

Some of the illegally dumped material at the state-owned D&R Canal State Park, off Blackwells Mills Road. One of the state’s top environmental law enforcers has a message for those who would illegally dump on state-owned open space. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & …

The site of the March 27 DEP press conference on Blackwells Mills Road. A crackdown on illegal dumping in state parks, forests, wildlife management areas and natural areas will be announced by the state’s top environmental officers at noon March 27 at a Blackwells Mills Road site. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …