FLEMINGTON – The Flemington Car & Truck Country Family of Brands donated $200 each to the Parent-Teacher Organizations of MacAfee Road and the soon-to-be-opened Claremont elementary schools on May 18. The donations were made by Steve Kalafer, the dealership’s founding chairman. The donations were made as part of a promotional program run by Flemington Car & Truck Country, located at …
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The Franklin Food Bank was the beneficiary May 15 of a local firm’s celebration of three decades in business. Melillo Consulting, headquartered on Davidson Avenue, held a celebration and check presentation at the Canal Road farm owned by founder Mark Melillo. The farm has supplied thousands of pounds of fresh produce to food bank clients over the past six years. …
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A 40-year-old township man was sentenced on May 11 to more than 17 years in state prison after his convictions on seven counts of sexual crimes. Thomas Canales was sentenced by state Superior Court Judge Colleen Flynn, sitting in New Brunswick, to 17 1/2 years in state prison. He will have to serve 85 percent of 16 years of that …
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Authorities are seeking the public’s help in locating the suspect in a May 8 stabbing in the Hempstead Drive area. Township police received a 9-1-1 call at about 9:57 p.m. of shots fired in the area, according to a press release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office. Responding police found a 28-year-old New Brunswick man lying on the ground outside …
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The front of township police headquarters was once again the starting point for several hundred law enforcement officers who set off on the 2018 Police Unity Tour early in the morning of May 10. The tour is a bike ride from various starting points across the country with the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in Washington, D.C. as its goal. …
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A Franklin Township Police Officer is among four recipients of the 2018 200 Club of Somerset County Valor Awards. Cpl. Keith Hermann will be honored for his actions in stopping a burglary in his own Manville home, according to a press release about the event. Hermann in November 2017 received the New Jersey PBA’s Valor Award for the same incident. …
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The Rutgers Plaza Kmart is the apparent latest victim in Sears Holdings’ trimming-down effort with the confirmation May 7 that the store will close in late July. Rumors about the store’s closing have been flying around the township for the past week or so. The township Kmart has not appeared in any of the several lists released since last year …
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A 41-year-old township woman was injured May 5 after her car was hit by another at John F. Kennedy Boulevard and Hamilton Street. Franklin Township Police Lt. Phil Rizzo said a 2016 Honda Pilot driven by Daisy Outram was turning left from Hamilton to JFK at about 11:05 a.m. when it was struck by a 2018 Jeep Wrangler driven by …
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The general manager of the Somerset Wendy’s restaurant on Easton Avenue has been named one of Wendy’s 200 Top general managers for 2017. Wiilly Diez has been with the Wendy’s Company since 1997, according to a press release. He and the other top general managers were recognized recently at the Wendy’s Restaurant Support Center “for their leadership, performance, dedication, and …
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A township man is the latest of four Franklin residents to plead guilty to a charge of operating or participating in a multi-county cocaine distribution ring. Michael “Augue” Rodriguez, 40, of Somerset pleaded guilty on April 30 to a first degree count of being the leader of a narcotics trafficking network, according to a press release from the Middlesex County …
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