General News

One of the youngest traditional rulers in Nigeria will visit the township in June during a nearly month-long trade mission to the United States. Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi was named the Ooni of Ife – King of the Yoruba people – in October, following the July 2015 death of the previous monarch. Ogunwusi will visit the township on June 11, according …

The township-based charter school praised earlier this week by Gov. Chris Christie is under a state-mandated limited enrollment plan to alleviate “concerns” over the school’s student population’s “lack of diversity.” Thomas Edison EnergySmart Charter School on Cortelyous Lane was placed under a restricted enrollment plan for the next five school years by state education commissioner David Hespe as a condition of its …

Patrick Gianotto, a lifelong township resident and key player in the Hamilton street business district redevelopment effort, has died. He was 62. Gianotto, owner of Franklin Electric on Hamilton Street, died April 28 while vacationing in Key West, Fla. Born in New Brunswick, Gianotto lived and worked on Hamilton Street. For more than a decade, but most recently over the …

Detectives from the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office have interviewed “numerous people” in their investigation of the April 9 shootout in New Brunswick between a township resident and police that left the man dead. That was one of the bits of information revealed by the Rev. DeForest Soaries, head pastor of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, during a telephonic press conference April …

More than 400 job-seekers showed up that the Imperia on Easton Avenue April 13 hoping to make a connection with their next employer. The event was the second job fair sponsored by state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17). Co-hosting was state Asemblyman Andrew Wicker, (D-16), the Middlesex County Regional Chamber of Commerce and the Imperia. About 70 vendors participated in the …

Fire fighters and other first responders from around the region gathered at the East Franklin Volunteer Fire Company firehouse April 11 to remember one of their own who died in the line of duty. The occasion was the 10th anniversary of the death of Kevin Apuzzio, a member of East Franklin who was killed the morning of April 11, 2006. …

A 30-year veteran township policeman was picked March 30 by the Somerset County Democratic Committee to run for Somerset County Sheriff. Lt. Darrin Russo, who will be retiring from the township department on July 1, was chosen at the Democrats’ annual convention. The current Sheriff, Frank Provenzano, has held the position since 2002. “We are thrilled” to have Russo on the …

Some may have seen more than two feet of snow an impediment, but two township siblings saw it as an opportunity to help their neighbors. Noelle and Noah Brent-Magri, both 16, teamed up on Jan. 24 to dig their neighbors – and some strangers – out of the blizzard’s aftermath. The pair set out at about 6 a.m. to help …

Township residents spent Jan. 24 digging out of or playing in the average 24 inches of snow that Winter Storm Jonas dumped on the Eight Villages. One lingering effect of the storm, which began Friday evening and didn’t stop until about 24 hours later, was the cancellation of school for Jan. 25. Board of Education president Ed Potosnak said that …

There were no reported injuries in 14 automobile crashes reported Jan. 23, during the Blizzard of 2016. The storm, which began late in the evening of Jan. 22, was expected to drop between 25 and 30 inches of snow on the township. As of about 9 p.m. Jan. 23, the storm had dropped an average of 17 inches of snow …