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More than $200,000 in equipment purchases for the police department were approved at the July 8 Township Council meeting. The council voted to buy seven vehicles and six portable computers. 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 …

Franklin Township’s director of IT, Justin Heyman, speaks to attendees at the township’s recent Community Digital Forum. Photo: Franklin Township The Franklin Web site should be streaming Township Council meetings by the end of the year, according to the township’s Information Technology director. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the …

School board member Christine Danielsen, seen in this file photo, changed her mind at the June 26 Board of Education meeting and voted to move the $84 million referendum to December. It took a last-minute change of heart on the part of one member, but the Board of Education June 26 decided to move the $84 million referendum vote from …

The first step toward financing the township’s $2.5 million 2014 road program was taken at the June 24 Township Council meeting. The council approved on second reading a bond ordinance for about $2.4 million of the cost, which will cover 27 township roads. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the …

Mayor Brian Levine, standing, ripped into RPM Management LLC for the company’s failure to initially install a handicapped-accessible door at the Parkside Senior housing building. Funding for all but one of the 14 applications submitted for the township’s 2014 Community Development Block Grant program were approved June 24 by the Township Council. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering …

Bryan Bidlack of Charles Street told the Township Council that the issue of installing a sound system in Middlebush Park is of concern to all Middlebush village residents. The lobbying effort against installing a sound system at the Middlebush Park sports complex continued at the June 24 Township Council meeting, with a cadre of Middlebush residents once again showing up to …

Board of Education vice president Eva Nagy told board members that the $85 million referendum would probably have to be put off until December. The $85 million school district referendum that has been planned for September may not happen until December. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the …

Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates’ Dwight Pfennig talks to the Board of Education at the June 19 meeting. The Board of Education hopes to interview prospective schools Superintendent candidates in the two months leading up to the 2014-2015 school year, the board’s vice president said June 19. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the …

Lee Nunery of Hazard, Young & Attea Associates, the search firm helping the school district find a new schools Superintendent, speaks to parents at the June 10 outreach session. The characteristics and traits that should be embodied by the next schools Superintendent will be discussed at the June 19 Board of Education meeting. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet …

Traffic on a portion of New Brunswick Road will be tied up for the next two weeks as the busy artery is given a facelift. The work on the portion of the road between John F. Kennedy Boulevard and DeMott Lane began June 9. The work will include milling and repaving the street. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet …