News-pourri

Franklin High School Project Graduation in conjunction, with the Franklin High School Booster Club, has announced its annual Food Truck Festival event will take place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. May 21 at Franklin High School, 500 Elizabeth Avenue. There will be a variety of 15 food trucks on-site with many varieties including hot foods, desserts and more. Numerous …

Parks & Recreation Director Beau Byrtus, right, talks about the Youth Center opening as Advisory Recreation Council chairman Keith Stewart looks on. More than 400 township youths have taken out free memberships in the township Youth Center, with the facility’s grand opening just days away. That was the word on May 11 from Beau Byrtus, the director of Parks and …

Performance Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine will hold its inaugural 5K charity run/walk, “Conquer the Island,” from 10 a.m. to noon May 14 at Duke Island Park in Bridgewater. All proceeds from the event will go to the “30 Days for Clean Water” program run by  Mission Clean Water, a New Jersey-based 501c3 nonprofit that focuses on providing clean drinking water …

More than 300 police officers from around the country and the world – including three from Franklin – embarked from in front of the Public Safety Building early in the morning of May 10 for the 13th annual Police Unity Tour to Washington, D.C. The cyclists will join officers from throughout the country at the Law Enforcement Memorial in D.C. …

The Grand Opening Celebration will be followed by a “Youth Fest.” (File photo.) U.S. Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-12) will be among the dignitaries attending the grand opening of the Franklin Youth Center, set for 1 p.m. on May 14. The Center is located at 429 Lewis Street.

NJ State PBA President Patrick Colligan, Retired Fanwood Police Sergeant Russ Yeager (holding a picture of his father Sheriff’s Detective Ronald Yeager) and Somerset County Sheriff Darrin J. Russo (left to right) stand in front of the Somerset County Law Enforcement Memorial in Somerville. (Photo: Cosmo Tomaro, Sheriff’s Office BCI Unit.)   Somerset County Sheriff and township resident Darren Russo will …

Applications will be accepted through June 1. Applications are now being accepted for the Franklin Township Police’s Youth Police Academy, to be held from July 14-22, 2022. The program is open to students in 8th to 12 grades.

Former Township Councilman Upendra Chivukula, right, answers questions posed by temple attorney Peter Lanfrit at the May 5 Zoning Board meeting. A proposed Hindu temple on a 25-acre South Middlebush Road parcel could draw between 80 to 250 people on weekdays and as many as 200 a day on weekends, the Zoning Board of Adjustment was told during the temple’s …

Photo: Greater Somerset YMCA Township resident Bill Grippo is one of 34 volunteers honored with the Greater Somerset YMCA’s Volunteer Spirit Awards. Grippo was honored for his leadership in establishing a YMCA in Franklin.

Marchers in the 2019 Memorial Day Parade. (File photo). The full-fledged Memorial Day parade will return to the township at noon on May 30. The parade route will start at DeMott Lane and New Brunswick Road and follow DeMott to the Municipal Complex.