Politics

Early in-person voting in the 2026 General Election starts on October 24, and runs through November 1. Voting hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays, and 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays. Franklin voters can cast their early ballots at the Senior/Community Center in the Municipal Complex, 505 DeMott Lane. Vote By Mail voters can also …

GET OUT THE VOTE – Activist Larry Hamm urges attendees at the “No Kings 4 – Vote Early” rally at the township gazebo to make sure they and their friends vote in the upcoming general election. Speakers at a “No Kings 4 – Vote Early” rally Saturday urged Franklin Township residents to vote early in the Nov. 3 midterm elections …

NO COMPETITION – School Board members Bill Grippo and Erika Inocencio, and Jimmie Parker, III (not pictured) were the only candidates to file for the upcoming Board of Education election by the July 27 deadline. (File photo). For the first time in years, November’s Board of Education race will be uncontested.

A LONG DAY – Poll workers line up at the Municipal Building June 2 to drop off tallies in the 2026 primary elections. Adam Hamawy, the former plastic surgeon and combat surgeon, on June 2 won the right to carry the Democratic Party’s banner in the November election to replace retiring Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman in the U.S. House of …

MAKING HER CASE – Somerset County Commission Director and Franklin resident Shanel Robinson answers a question during the April 11 Congressional District 12 candidates’ forum held at First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens. The 13 candidates running for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. House of Representatives’ 12th District faced off April 11 at a forum held at the First …

Township Councilman Shubhendu Singh was the only person to file a petition for the Ward 1 Council seat for the June primary. Singh was appointed to the seat in February. Former Councilmember Ed Potosnak resigned in January following his nomination as Commissioner of the state Department of Environmental Protection by Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

NO KINGS – Franklin Residents and Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman are expected to take part in the March 28 “No Kings 3” protest set for March 28 in New Brunswick. (File photo). Congresswoman Bonnie Watson Coleman is expected to join speakers from a broad coalition of students and activists – including a number from Franklin Township – at a No …

WINNING SMILES – Board of Education member Nick DeMeglio with Board member-elect Jennifer Welch during the wait for school board election results in the Township Council chamber on November 4. (Updated as of 11:38 p.m. November 19.) Democratic Township Council incumbents won re-election, and the “Choose All Three” Board of Education slate swept their race in the November 4 general …

NO KINGS – Some of the estimated 1,500 people who came to the township to participate in the No Kings 2 rally at the Cultural Arts Gazebo. An estimated 1,500 people from the township and elsewhere packed the green at the Franklin Township Cultural Gazebo October 18 for the “No Kings Day 2” rally. The rally was one of reportedly …

Groups on opposite ends of the political spectrum will share the same space on October 18, and both are promising the coexistence will be peaceful. Franklin Township Indivisible, Somerset County Indivisible, and other groups are planning to participate in the nationwide No Kings series of rallies by holding one from noon to 2 p.m. at the Franklin Township Cultural Arts …