The inaugural Empty Bowls fundraiser raised at least $19,000 March 10 for the Franklin Food Bank. Participants chose hand-made pottery bowls and then visited a number of food stations set up by local restaurants, who donated the food. The event was held at the DoubleTree Hotel on Atrium Drive. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings …
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Tina Jalloh, president of the Somerset County Democratic Black Caucus, Secretary of State Sheila Oliver and Somerset County Freeholder Shanel Robinson, left to right, at the Black Caucus’s Black History Month celebration. Exhibitions of black culture, calls for continued social justice activism and an appearance by the state’s Lieutenant Governor highlighted the annual Black History Month celebration Feb. 16 at …
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The performance gazebo has already been used for wedding couples’ photography. The Franklin Township Cultural Arts Commission performance gazebo was officially gifted to the township at the Feb. 12 Township Council meeting. 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 the only …
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Organizers of the upcoming “Empty Bowls Franklin Township” fundraiser have high hopes for their inaugural event. The founding executive team members – Susan Winston Seamon and Bob and Ceil Cheril – say they wanted to do something to help ease the concerns of people with food insecurity. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …
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The township’s municipal prosecutor and a long-time educator are among the nine women chosen as the 2019 Outstanding Women in Somerset County by the Somerset County Commission on the Status of Women. Bernice Jalloh, an attorney who is currently the township prosecutor, will be honored in the Journalism/Media/Law category, and Wanda Brooks-Long, CEO of an educational services company and former …
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New Jersey Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Franklin native Tiffany Williams speaks during the Jan. 21 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast. Hundreds of attendees at the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Breakfast were urged Jan. 21 to continue the slain civil rights leader’s legacy by acting as he would. Don’t Miss Out! No other media …
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Township resident Daryle Lamont Jenkins addresses anti-racism protestors at Palmer Square, Princeton. PRINCETON – Hundreds of protestors from across the state gathered at Palmer Square here Jan. 12 for what they thought was going to be a counter-demonstration against a fledgling white supremacist group’s march. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of …
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Nicholas Solomon, Daryn Plummer, Adrian Plummer and Rebekah Solomon (clockwise from top left) are the Franklin Reporter & Advocate’s “People of the Year.” The notion of “paying it forward” can be traced back to the ancient Greeks; it is the idea that one does not repay a kindness one was granted back to the benefactor, but, rather, finds someone else …
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This week’s podcast features news about the Township Council’s decision to censure Councilman Rajiv Prasad, news about our presiding Municipal Court Judge and the start of the Franklin High School Lady Warriors’ basketball team’s promising season start. Music is “Winter Sunshine” by pianist Evgeny Grinko. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of …
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We’re proud to introduce Franklin Reporter & Advocate Radio, a weekly podcast that will look at the top stories of the previous week, speak to a topical Newsmaker or two, and take a peek into the week ahead. This week’s Newsmaker is Franklin High School Girls’ Basketball Coach Audrey Taylor, who gave us some of her time to talk about …
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