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BRIDGE CITY DISPENSARY – The Grand Opening of one of the last dispensaries to open in 2025. (File photo). Cannabis businesses in Franklin Township rang up $21.6 million in taxable sales in the first half of 2026, up 52% from a year earlier, but nearly all of that growth came from a single cultivator while many of the township’s retail …

TECHNOLOGICAL FLASHPOINT – Flock Safety’s automated license plate readers are the subject of controversy in the township. (Photo: Flock Safety). Some Franklin Township Council members are signaling a willingness to revisit the Township’s contract with Flock Safety, but stopped short of calling for its cancellation, a week after residents criticized the governing body at its Aug. 11 meeting for agreeing …