Speak Out!

By Bill Connell,Somerset. Before I get rolling, I would like to suggest to someone important that tractor-trailers have better brake lights. Those two cute little circles on the back don’t really get the point across. If you look at Volvo station wagons they have a band of brake lights. In the month of May I drove over 2,000 miles. Most …

By Linda Powell. This Project proposes building an industrial gas compressor station complex in Franklin, which would emit tons of airborne toxins for decades to come and constructing a 23.4 miles pipeline across Raritan Bay using 15,350 acres of seafloor workspace & distributing 117 acres of seafloor. I Wish I knew…Is it too Late?? No, it’s not too late… yet. …

By Imam Rizwan Rizvi, Minister of Religion, Masjid-E-Ali “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare, and he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere”- Ali ibn Abi Tālib This Saturday March 31st 2018, millions of people around the world observe the birth anniversary of a man whose social justice work has been celebrated for …

by Ardaman Singh, Board of Education Vice President. I would like to bring to the attention of the general public,our public school parents and staff, that post the Parkland Shooting, we have all been on high alerts and have had our Superintendent give us nearly hourly updates via phone and emails about each and every situation at our schools, so …

Submitted by Daryl Kipnis. New Jersey 12th District congressional candidate, and Somerset attorney, Daryl Kipnis said he was “encouraged” to learn Thursday night about a possible summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jung-un. “I am most encouraged to learn that North Korea’s leadership has committed to enter into discussions concerning nuclear weapons disarmament with the United …

By Daryl Kipnis. “The radical Left’s use of the Parkland student survivors to further its anti-gun agenda is disgusting and ghoulish,” New Jersey 12th District Republican congressional candidate Daryl Kipnis said Friday. “These traumatized children, after living through a horrific event that saw their friends, classmates and teachers killed, are now being used as political pawns by so-called ‘adults’ in …

By Bill Connell, Somerset Your letter asks good questions. They should eventually be answered, but it draws the eye away from the only issue that’s important, to me anyway. Shooting incidents are unique and Florida was no different. The question I have is, does Franklin have the infrastructure, communication and talent to deal with a real incident. This was a …

As we have stated before, nature abhors a vacuum. Especially, we might add, when it’s an information vacuum. Because when there is a lack of information about a subject in which people are vitally interested – and when they have a right to that information – it’s human nature to fill the void with rumor, supposition and innuendo. And that’s …

By Kirk Frost. Transco has recently been publishing to newspapers, twitter and media releases in a mad dash to squash the significant and growing number of public input (greater than 2,500 people) that has raised serious issues regarding chemical emissions, environmental impact and long term chronic health impact to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).  Transco persistently makes claims that …

By Barbara Cuthbert. When asked about concerns that air emissions from the proposed Compressor Station 206 could contaminate drinking water if a reservoir is constructed at Trap Rock Quarry when it stops mining in 2045, Williams-Transco spokesperson Christopher Stockton told the Editor of Franklin Reporter & Advocate that this would not be an issue.  He then noted, “The regulatory and …