News-pourri

A total of 17 applications for more than $330,000 in Community Development Block Grants were received by the township for 2018. Representatives of several of the applicants showed up to the March 27 Township Council meeting to make their case for funding.

Applications for a new temple on Elizabeth Avenue and a major expansion of a Dellwood Lane nursing home were approved April 5 by the Zoning Board of Adjustment. The largest of the two applications was submitted by Francis E. Parker Memorial Home, Inc., – formerly known as the Margaret McLaughlin McCarrick Care Center – which needed permission to build a new, …

The idea of putting metal detectors in township schools “is not off the table,” a crowd of about 100 people was told March 29 at the township Safety Symposium held at Franklin Middle School. In response to a question from a township resident, schools Superintendent John Ravally said that the idea of putting some kind of metal detection – whether …

Games, crafts and a dancing session with “Mr. and Mrs. Bunny’ highlighted the 2018 “Bunny Jamboree” held March 25 at the township Senior/Community center. The chance of rain pushed the event indoors, although the Easter Egg Hunt was still held outside.

Editor’s Note: East Millstone residents Martha and Peter March, Roboin Scudder and Patti Sofran attended the March 4 Our Lives in Washington, D.C. on March 24. Following are their impressions. Patti Sofran: What sets this apart from the 2017 amazing Women’s March, which we also attended, was listening to the powerful and determined voices of teenagers who are very determined …

Joey Danielsen decided to spend part of his 10th birthday by continuing a tradition his father started before he was born. He shaved his head for cancer research.

For the past decade, regular customers of the Sunrise Creek Deli on Main Street in East Millstone could count on a warm greeting, good coffee, big smiles and tasty Lebanese dishes – among others – when they entered the Main Street deli in East Millstone. Some of that will change as of March 23 when the deli’s owners, siblings Arnold …

A potential Republican challenger to U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman is attacking her for a recent vote on school safety legislation. Daryl Kipnis, who is running for the Republican nomination to challenge Watson Coleman (D-12) in November, said in a release that Watson’s “no” vote on the “STOP School Violence Act of 2018” shows that she “failed” to “deliver on …

There was more than soup and chili served up March 11 by the East Millstone Historic Society at its annual meeting. Music by an Irish music trio, Lesser Seamus – featuring village resident Michael Steinbrück – and talks by Delaware and Raritan Canal author Linda Barth and Bob Mettler, the township historian, were also on the menu.

“Making” was the theme March 10 as the township library hosted Franklin’s contribution to the statewide Makers Day event. Makers Day is a “statewide event that celebrates and promotes maker culture, as well as the values associated with making, tinkering and STEM-based learning,” according to the event’s schedule.