WORDS OF WISDOM – Rod Brundidge, a Franklin High School vice-principal, speaks to Road to Success students at their annual Thanksgiving celebration. Thanksgiving came two days early for students enrolled in the school district’s Road To Success program. Road To Success is an alternative high school program, the mission of which is “prepare enrolled students to graduate high school and …
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WINNERS! – The Franklin High School GoldN’Blues Choir – also known as The Madrigals – will perform in the Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting ceremony, broadcast on NBC. (Photo NBC 4 New York.) Franklin High School’s GoldN’Blues Choir – also known as the Madrigal Choir – on November 25 was selected to sing for NBC’s broadcast of “Christmas in Rockefeller Center,” …
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State Assemblyman Joe Danielsen is once again hosting his annual Head-To-Toe clothing drive. New or clean, gently used winter clothing donations for children aged 3-16 years are being accepted at his legislative office at 334 Elizabeth Avenue until January 16, 2026. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the …
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EXPLAINS PLAN – Eli Mizriehi of Bytech testifies at the November 20 Zoning Board of Adjustment meeting. A Coney Island-based mobile accessories manufacturer won Zoning Board of Adjustment approval November 20 to expand its Howard Avenue warehousing space. Bytech already has about 75,000 square feet of warehouse and office space in its township location, but the Board was told that …
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HE HAS QUESTIONS – Zoning Board vice-chairman Robert Shepherd had questions about the Tawheed Dawah Center Masjid’s application at the November 20 hearing. The first Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing on a mosque planned for a South Middlebush Road parcel ended on a confusing note, with members of the public and a Board member noting that the project’s application did …
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TRADITION CONTINUES – Vimal Sodhani, founder of the Sodhani Foundation, speaks at the November 20 Board of Education meeting. The township school district was once again the beneficiary of a local philanthropist’s largess. Vimal Sodhani, founder of the Sodhani Foundation, at the November 20 Board of Education meeting presented the district with a $10,000 donation for this year’s Invention Competition. …
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ARTIST’S RENDERING – The Tawheed Dawah Center is looking to change the approved building design and get permission for a more intense use than was approved for its predecessor. The Zoning Board of Adjustment is set to hear on November 20 an application for a 19,000-square-foot mosque targeted for a South Middlebush Road parcel that had previously been approved for …
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ROAD WORK GRANT – Work on New Brunswick Road between Willow Road and Cedar Grove Lane – except the bridge over Al’s Creek – is scheduled to begin in the Spring. The Township will receive more than $300,000 from a state grant program for work on a section of New Brunswick Road. The $316,190 grant from the municipal aid grant …
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Photo: GoFundMe. A township resident displaced by an October 29 fire on Amethyst Way has started a GoFundMe campaign for financial support. SueEllen Genovese wrote on her fundraising page that she was alerted to a fire in her next-door neighbor’s house by a passing Good Samaritan. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth …
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NOT HAPPY – The crowd of residents, mostly from Canal Walk, who watched the August 6 Planning Board hearing on approval conditions for the B9 warehouse development. (File photo). There was more legal wrangling November 17 in the controversial B9 warehouse development on Schoolhouse Road. Attorneys for the the developer and a Canal Walk-based citizens group opposing the development argued …
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