News-pourri

Councilwoman Crystal Pruitt grew emotional April 27 as she spoke of her reactions to issues over the past year during teh Township Council meeting. An emotional Crystal Pruitt on April 27 gave voice to the anxiety over the issue of police violence normally felt by people of color and exacerbated after the verdict in the case of a white former …

FHS principal Frank Chmiel, seen here in a screenshot of a video he made in 2020, will most likely be leaving to become principal at Princeton High School. Update: The Princeton Board of Education formally appointed Frank Chmiel as its new high school principal at its April 27 meeting. Chmiel will start the $164,000 position on July 1. In a …

Franklin Middle School’s Hamilton Street campus will switch to remote-learning only April 22 after the coronavirus recently affected six staff members. Three staff members “in a relatively short period of time” tested positive for the virus, and three more are in quarantine due to exposure to the virus, schools Superintendent John Ravally said in a letter to the school community. …

Applications to install solar panel arrays on and around a private school and to build a large warehouse were approved April 21 by the Planning Board. The application by EZNergy was to install solar panels on the roof and in the parking lot around the Center School on Riverview Drive. The Board was told that in addition to solar panels …

Schools Superintendent John Ravally, pictured, and Assistant Superintendent Dan Loughren wrote a letter to parents April 20 concerning the guilty verdicts in the trial of a White former police officer for the killing of a Black man. (File photo). The school district’s top administrators on April 20 weighed in on the multiple guilty verdicts against a former Minneapolis police offer …

The Zoning Board of Adjustment on April 15 held its fifth hearing on a proposed 21,000-square-foot temple targeted for South Middlebush Road. A lawyer for some opponents to a proposed 21,000-square-foot temple went on the attack at the April 15 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting, grilling a temple representative on his sect’s practices, and the need for such a large …

An application for a more than 200,000-square-foot warehouse on Schoolhouse Road was approved April 7 by the Planning Board. The building at 17 Schoolhouse Road currently houses the New Jersey Chinese Community Center, and is the former home of the Central Jersey College Prep Charter School. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth …

A Schoolhouse Road engineering firm received Planning Board approval April 7 to build an office building on its property. The Board approved a 6,095-square-ffot building that will be situated in front of the existing 6,000-square-foot building. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. …

Cleanup work continues at the Route 27 site that once held an historic building that township officials say was demolished without proper permits. The owner of Route 27 property located in the Franklin Park Historic District faces $8,000 in fines after they apparently demolished historic buildings without the proper permits. The main building, located at 3011 Route 27, was built …

Township Councilman Ted Chase has decided not to seek re-election, setting the stage for a primary fight among his potential Democratic Party successors. (File photo). The Ward 1 Township Council seat currently held by the retiring Ted Chase is the target of a challenge in the upcoming Township Council primary election. The township Democratic Party has chosen current Board of …