General News

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 …

The public has been invited to the first 2016 meeting of the Raritan Valley Rail Coalition at 8:30 a.m.  Jan. 25 at 25 Grove St., Somerville. The meeting is being held in the Somerset County Administration Building in the third-floor freeholders’ meeting room. Parking is available in the adjacent Bernie Field Parking Deck; the entrance is located on East High …

More than 400 people gathered at the Doubletree Hotel on Atrium Drive Jan. 18 for the township’s annual celebration of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Franklin Township Community Breakfast is also a fund raiser for a scholarship program targeting graduating Franklin High School seniors. To date, the event has raised more than $146,000, which has been …

A 1997 Franklin High School graduate will be honored next month by a national organization for her work in the intelligence community. Zalenda Cyrille has won the 2016 Edwin H. Land Industry Award from the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a “a non-profit, non-partisan, public-private organization that works to promote and recognize the highest standards within the national security and …

Several hundred members of the township’s West African community gathered Jan. 9 to celebrate their impact in the November 2015 elections. Special guests at the event, held at the Holiday Inn on Davidson Avenue, were the local winners in the election: State Assemblyman Joe Danielsen, (D-17), Mayor Phil Kramer and At-Large Township Council members Shanel Robinson, Kimberly Francois and Rajiv Prasad. …