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Brinoy Patel of Franklin Park and Anokhi Shah of Somerset were among students in Philadelphia College of Pharmacy at University of the Sciences who received their white coats at a ceremony on Saturday, Sept. 19. The white coat ceremony is an annual rite of passage for students in their first professional year (third year) of USciences’ six-year pharmacy program, and symbolizes …

The Center School has been named one of the country’s top innovative K-12 schools by an educational Web site. Noodle.com announced that the Riverview Drive school is one of 41 schools awarded the distinction.

Story submitted by Suzanne Kafas. Photos by Diane Milgram. The Franklin High School Warrior Marching Band took home several trophies Oct. 10 from the 22nd annual Hillsborough High School Marching Band festival in Hillsborough.

It’s not often that Bill Grippo is at a loss for words, but that was the condition in which the MacAfee Road School principal found himself Oct. 1 as he watched a small army of volunteers hard at work in the school’s courtyard. The men and women were hard at work building and staining plant boxes, and staining picnic benches for …

About 85 Pine Grove Manor School students received back-to-school gifts Sept. 29, courtesy of state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen. Danielsen, (D-17), delivered backpacks filled with school supplies for the children. The delivery was made possible by donations from groups ranging from township Police PBA Local 154, to Enterprise Rent-a -Car, to St. Matthias Church.

Submitted by Arthur Westneat. Franklin High School’s Class of 1965 celebrated 50 years since their graduation at a dinner/dance held at the Hotel Somerset, Saturday evening, September 26.  Attending the reunion were 60 members of the class and 39 guests.

Sefa Kploanyi, a third-year Touro College of Pharmacy student, recently won first place in the 2015 Student National Pharmaceutical Association Conference in Orlando, Fl. Kploanyi, a township resident, won the prize in the Kroger Clinical Skills Competition with teammate Justice Kwansa. The two competed against students from 20 other pharmaceutical schools.

The fundraising drive for MacAfee Road School’s new playground received a huge boost Sept. 17 in the form of a $15,000 donation from Investors Bank. The ceremonial check was presented to school principal Bill Grippo by three representatives from Investors – vice president and Somerset branch manager Michael Harris, senior vice president and regional manager Jacqueline Pena and senior loan …

More than 450 “thank-you” cards and letters written by MacAfee Road School students were delivered to township first responders on Sept. 11. The event was the school’s first official commemoration of the 14th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

A group of Cedar Hill Preparatory School students who raised money for the Franklin Township Food Bank were honored for their work at the Sept. 8 Township Council meeting. The students raised the money – $275 – during a dance at the school last June. The dance was part of the students’ “Give n Get” community service program.