News-pourri

Winners of the 2016 Municipal Alliance poster contest were honored Dec. 13 by the Township Council. The 2016 winners of an annual poster contest for the township’s school children were celebrated at the Dec. 13 Township Council meeting. The contest is sponsored by the township Municipal Alliance for the Prevention of Substance Abuse. This year’s theme was “We Can Be …

Two bills in the state Assembly, co-sponsored by Assemblyman Joe Danielsen, were recently reported out of the appropriations committee. The state Assembly’s appropriations committee recently advanced two military veterans’-related bills co-sponsored by Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17). Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. …

Engineer Craig Stires discusses plans for a new home for the Central Jersey College Prep Charter School at the Dec. 15 Zoning Board meeting. A township charter school will have to wait until after the new year to find out if it will be able to relocate. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

Township Councilwoman Roz Sherman said an agreement between the council and Pop Warner football over noise at Middlebush Park was broken. The on-again, off-again dispute over amplification of Pop Warner football games at Middlebush Park is apparently on again. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter …

Panelists at the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens’ Town Hall included, left to right, Cornell Belcher, Angela Rye, Joe Youngblood and U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman. The U.S Congress’s Black Caucus is likely to take a more “in your face” approach starting next year in dealing with any Republican attempts to roll back Progressive gains, an audience at First …

Rodney Wilkerson arrives at the East Franklin Fire Department Dec. 9 for a fundraiser in his honor.   Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving the Eight Villages. But we can only do that with …

The deadline is fast approaching for donations to a college fund established for siblings of a township teenager killed over the summer in an automobile accident. Andrew Russoniello, 13, was killed Aug. 29 when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Amwell Road. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

Left to right, John Tighe and Paul Walitsky head up the operation in December Photo: Jay Del Prado.   Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving the Eight Villages. But we can only do that …

The Rockingham house and kitchen garden. Photo: NJ Department of Tourism.   Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. We are the only truly independent media serving the Eight Villages. But we can only do that with your support. Please consider a yearly …

The township’s Historic Preservation Advisory Commission approved a handful of applications at its Dec. 6 meeting. A handful of applications for home renovations were given the thumbs’-up Dec. 6 by the township Historic Preservation Advisory Commission. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & Advocate. Period. …