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BRIDGE TO BE REPLACED – The Griggstown Causeway bridge is one of two in the township slated to be replaced next year by the state Department of Transportation. State transportation officials are readying plans to replace two bridges in the township, starting next year. The year-long replacement work will be conducted on the Griggstown Causeway and the Chapel Drive bridges …

WINNERS! – The Franklin High School GoldN’Blues Choir – also known as The Madrigals – will perform in the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting ceremony, broadcast on NBC. (Photo NBC 4 New York.) Franklin High School’s GoldN’Blues Choir – also known as the Madrigal Choir – on November 25 was selected to sing for NBC’s broadcast of “Christmas in Rockefeller Center,” …

HE HAS QUESTIONS – Zoning Board vice-chairman Robert Shepherd had questions about the Tawheed Dawah Center Masjid’s application at the November 20 hearing. The first Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing on a mosque planned for a South Middlebush Road parcel ended on a confusing note, with members of the public and a Board member noting that the project’s application did …

NOT HAPPY – The crowd of residents, mostly from Canal Walk, who watched the August 6 Planning Board hearing on approval conditions for the B9 warehouse development. (File photo). There was more legal wrangling November 17 in the controversial B9 warehouse development on Schoolhouse Road. Attorneys for the the developer and a Canal Walk-based citizens group opposing the development argued …

FINALLY FINISHED – Cars pass over the newly opened New Brunswick Road bridge over Al’s Creek on November 14. The bridge replacement work was completed about a month-and-a-half later than originally estimated. A construction job on New Brunswick Road that was originally expected to take 33 days is finally done, nearly 90 days later. Replacement of the bridge over Al’s …

Nearly 100 people – including Franklin residents – gave state environmental officials an earful November 13 during a public hearing on a controversial natural gas pipeline project. The project, Williams-Tranco’s Northeast Supply Enhancement Project, will run from Pennsylvania, through New Jersey and eventually into New York. The project includes a 32,000-horsepower, natural gas-powered twin-turbine compressor station on a 52-acre tract …

EXPLAINING THE PLAN – Daniel Miola, an engineer, reviews the plans to subdivide the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the U.S.A. property on Davidson Avenue, and redevelop part of it into a warehouse. The Zoning Board of Adjustment on November 6 held a nearly 3-hour hearing on an application to raze the Ukrainian Cultural Center on Davidson Avenue and replace it …

WINNING SMILES – Board of Education member Nick DeMeglio with Board member-elect Jennifer Welch during the wait for school board election results in the Township Council chamber on November 4. (Updated as of 11:38 p.m. November 19.) Democratic Township Council incumbents won re-election, and the “Choose All Three” Board of Education slate swept their race in the November 4 general …

NEW FPS PRINCIPAL – Angela Pape speaks to the Board of Education October 28 after being named the new principal at Franklin Park Elementary School. Angela Pape was named the new Franklin Park Elementary School principal by the Board of Education at its October 28 meeting. A 13-year veteran of Franklin schools, Pape replaces former FPS principal Jennifer Stein, who …

RIBBON-CUTTING – Jimmy Lee of Joy Systems and MacAfee Elementary School’s Wilma Rosikiewicz, surrounded by MacAfee students, cut the ribbon on the school’s new book vending machine before the unveiling. MacAfee Road Elementary School is the latest school in the township to offer a unique way to instill a love for reading in their students: a book vending machine. Joining …