News-pourri

A stretch of Route 27 in Kingston will experience alternating lane closures as part of a paving project. The work will be conducted from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. on Rt. 27 between Old Lincoln Highway and Jones Drive, according to a press release from the state Department of Transportation. The work began August 16 and is expected to last …

Reenactor John Koopman as George Washington at last year’s Walk and Roll event, as local residents walk and bicycle on Canal Road. (Photo: Millstone Valley Preseervation Coalition.) Submitted by the Millstone Valley Preservation Coalition. Reenactors of General George Washington and his valet, Billy Lee, will ride on horseback along Canal Road on August 28, 241 years after the American and …

The organizers of the annual Week of the People festivals are getting last-minute details set in anticipation of their events planned for August 13, 14 and 20. August 13 will see the Back to School Festival from 1-7 p.m. at Naaman WIlliams Park on Matilda Avenue. The highlight of the day will be the distribution of free backpacks to township …

Vidhu Goyal speaks to the Township Council about the lack of a barrier at Jacques Lane and Canal Road. The mother of a 23-year-old township woman whose car plunged into the Delaware & Raritan Canal at Jacques Lane and Canal Road pleaded with the Township Council on August 9 to replace a barrier at that intersection. Sara Goyal was able …

Township Councilman Charles Onyejiaka, left, presents a key to the township to Nigerian King Olusegun Aderemi of Aramako at the August 9 Township Council meeting. Mayor Phil Kramer can add another Nigerian title to his resume. Kramer was dubbed a chief on August 9 by a visiting Nigerian King – Olusegun Aderemi of Aramako, Nigeria – and given a title …

Ordinances that allow for public rallies and speeches at township parks and at the municipal gazebo were introduced at the August 9 Township Council meeting. The ordinances were introduced to bring the township “in line withe the First Amendment,” Mayor Phil Kramer said. The first ordinance modifies Chapter 260 of the park and recreation regulations to allow for public speeches …

Engineer’s site plan for the proposed warehouse expansion. A township electronics distributor won permission from the Planning Board August 3 to expand its warehouse on Atrium Drive. F&E Electronics was looking for permission to add 70,300 square feet to its existing approximately 70,000-square-foot building. The site is the former Garden State Exhibition Center. The company is planning on hiring additional …

Zach Lichtmann, left, stares into the heavens with three township residents as they look for the International Space Station, which was flying 300 miles overhead during the National Night Out celebration. Hundreds of township residents came out to the Municipal Complex on August 2 for Franklin’s first observance of the National Night Out celebration. The residents were greeted by about …

Mayor Phil Kramer, Assemblyman Joe Danielsen, Assembly Speaker Craig Coughlin and Center for Great Expectations CEO Peg Wright, left to right, talk during the lawmakers’ tour of the Center. Leaders at the Center for Great Expectations – the group that provides services for expectant women at risk and women recovering from substance use, and their young children – thought they …

School board president Nancy Lacorte leads a slate of three incumbents in the November Board of Education election. Three incumbents are being challenged by two newcomers and a former Board member for the three available Board of Education seats. School board candidates in Franklin are chosen during the general election in November. Current school board president Nancy Lacorte, board vice …