Health & Fitness

The 19th annual edition of the Sister 2 Sister 5K Run/Walk for Life was held under sunny skies in Colonial Park on October 5. Hundreds of walkers and runners – spanning the age gap from child to senior citizen – showed up to show their support for the 24-year-old organization headquartered on Hamilton Street. Sister 2 Sister’s mission is to …

READY TO EXPAND – The Fitness Factory health club is preparing for an expansion into adjacent martial arts-related spaces. After six years of helping people slim down or bulk up, depending on their preference, the Fitness Factory is adding a little bulk of its own. The health club, located in the Cedar Grove Center on Cedar Grove Lane, will soon …

WELLNESS IS INSTRUMENTAL – Music students at TEECS perform during the school’s 4th annual Wellness Fair. Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School held its fourth annual Wellness Fair on April 30 on the school’s Pierce Street campus. The event, sponsored by the school’s Green Team, was designed to “bring awareness to the community about how you can promote wellness in all …

HEALTH CLINIC COMING – Township Manager Robert Vornlocker said the proposed Zufall health clinic on the campus of Franklin Middle School – Hamilton Street campus will eventually be expanded to all residents. A partnership between the Township and Board of Education that will result in a health clinic on a school campus came one step closer to fruition at the …

A Franklin Park School student decorates her pumpkin Oct. 19 during the school’s Unity Day celebration. Although it’s been celebrated for years, Unity Day 2022 was a first for some students at Franklin Park School. The difference? They got to feel what it was like to go pumpkin-picking. The students never left the school property; the “field” was the school’s …

Cyclists from the tr-state area will once again gather in the township on September 17 for the annual RCDCU fundraising ride. (File photo.) Community residents, local business owners and others will gear up to take part in the Renaissance Cyclist Defeating Cancer United Inc. (RCDCU) 2022 Bike-A-Thon “ Bike to Fight Prostate Cancer” on September 17, to raise money to …

Pfizer booster shots are being administered starting September 25 at Somerset County Department of Health vaccination clinics. The booster shots are available to certain people, based on recent recommendations of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Eligible recipients must have completed their Pfizer-BioNTech primary series six or more months previously and meet one of the following conditions: People …

Update: About 340 township middle- and high school students are scheduled to receive the Pfizer vaccine on May 27 and June 1, according to school district spokeswoman Mary Clark. There are about 3,626 students in the middle and high schools, Clark said. She said it was not known how many of them have received vaccinations elsewhere. Township students between the …

Somerset County Health Department director Dr. Namitha Reddy receives a COVID-19 vaccination from Ravi Modh of the Rutgers Nurse Anesthesia Program. Looking on, left to right, are Somerset County Freeholders Brian Levine, Deputy Director Sara Sooy, Director Shanel Robinson, Melonie Marano, and Brian Gallagher. (Photo: Somerset County Freeholders.) The Quail Brook Golf Club has been chosen as one of four …

Somerset County officials are working on designating COVID-19 vaccination sites in the county, a spokesman said on December 21. Two vaccines – by New York-based Pfizer and Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Moderna – have been given emergency use approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and are now being shipped to states. The state and county are following guidelines created by …