BEST IN THE STATE – Principal Oguz Yildiz stands with a graduating senior at the 2025 Thomas Edicaon EnergySmart Charter School graduation ceremony. (File photo.) Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School and Central Jersey College Prep Charter School are ranked as the top two charter schools in the state in the latest US News & World Report ranking of high schools …
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FIRST DAY CHAT – Schools Superintendent Jamil Maroun speaks with a Road to Success program student September 3 at the Franklin Youth Center. Elementary and high school students across the township returned to their classrooms September 3 for the opening of the 2026-27 school year, and for schools Superintendent Jamil Maroun, the morning marked a first of his own. Don’t …
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TRAFFIC GARDENS EXPLAINED – Hannah Younes, of the Voorhees Transportation Center at Rutgers University, talks to Advisory Recreation Board members about traffic gardens at the Board’s September 2 meeting. The Franklin Township Recreation Advisory Board on Sept. 2 endorsed a plan to study whether an unused slab of asphalt at Middlebush Park, left behind when the township’s skate park was …
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WORK DELAYED – A new water main installed in MacAfee Road can’t be activated until all bacteria tests are passed. Parents who drive their children to MacAfee Road Elementary School will have to park on Berger Street and walk their children the rest of the way on the first days of school, because work on the road’s new water main …
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Hydrants throughout the township will be flushed from September 8 through October 30. The flushing will occur between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m., according to a notice from the township Public Works Water Division. 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 …
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Franklin Township Board of Education committees moved a mandated student cellphone policy toward final adoption, endorsed nine new high school courses and set the date for a stadium tribute to the late football Coach Len Rivers during a round of August meetings, according to committee reports. The reports also disclosed that the District paid $3,823,866 in charter school tuition in …
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The Franklin Township Board of Education approved more than $446,000 in contracts, purchases and service agreements at its August 27 meeting, including a $75,000 award for an online elementary Spanish program and nearly $44,000 for phone lock pouches. The spending was spread across three agenda items: a 20-part contract approval list totaling about $371,354, the award of a technology recycling …
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RALLY MODERATOR – Bill Davis, the host of the August 27 Community Rally commemorating the 1963 March on Washington, speaks during the rally. Speakers at an August 27 community rally commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the March on Washington urged ralliers to vote in the coming midterm elections and to deepen their activism, warning that the nation is facing what …
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A FEW QUESTIONS – School Board member Bill Grippo had some questions about the proposed Board goals at the August 27 meeting. The Board of Education voted Aug. 27 to adopt six goals for the 2026-27 school year, reworking the language of one goal, keeping a disputed word in another and taking on a certification effort that schools Superintendent Jamil …
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EXPLAINING CHAIN OF COMMAND – Schools Superintendent Jamil Maroun, sitting at his first Board of Education meeting, explains the draft “chain of command” document soon to be released to the public. Schools Superintendent Jamil Maroun previewed a draft “chain of command” document at the Aug. 27 Board of Education meeting, a step-by-step guide that tells parents, students and staff whom …
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