Township-based Budd Van Lines recently acquired Wisconsin-based Merchants Moving & Storage. The partnership will increase the combined companies’ efficiencies through a larger national footprint of service centers, surveyors, move counselors, and drivers, according to a release about the merger. The combined fleet of pack-and-haul driver teams will offer clients greater capacity during the crunch of the peak summer season, the …
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You shouldn’t be doing it anyway, but think twice for the first three weeks of April before you pick up that phone while driving. The state’s annual “U Text, U Drive, U Pay” crackdown on distracted driving begins April 1 – no joke – and the Franklin Township Police Department is one of 207 departments across the state receiving some …
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Mayor Phil Kramer cuts the ribbon at R Biryani Adda while the restaurant’s owner, Amatul Roohi (left), looks on. A decade of success in a smaller, food-court setting has spurred a local restaurateur to open a second location in the township. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the …
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The Hamilton Street Advisory Board and Township Council held a joint meeting about student housing projects on March 11. A proposed 362-bedroom student housing project on Hamilton Street could pump as much as $1.7 million a year into the local economy, a consultant said March 11. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth …
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Kenneth Hitchner, content strategy director of CMA, has been appointed to the 2019 PRSA NJ Board. Photo: CMA. PRINCETON JUNCTION – Township resident Kenneth Hitchner has been named to the 2019 Public Relations Society of America NJ Board. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin Reporter & …
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Update: 19-year-old Ryan M. Salvagno has been charged with assault, a disorderly person’s offense and harassment, a petty disorderly person’s offense after he allegedly tried to take a “Make America Great Again” cap from an 81-year-old man, assaulting him in the process. A release from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office said that Salvagno followed the victim out of Shop Rite …
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Marty the Robot will soon be seen in the township’s three Stop & Shop supermarkets. (Photo: Retail Business Services LLC) All three township Stop & Shop supermarkets will have a new “employee” zipping down the shopping aisles come this Spring. Don’t Miss Out! No other media outlet covering Franklin Township brings you the depth of information presented by the Franklin …
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County Freeholder Director Brian Levine, left, greets Gov. Phil Murphy at the 2019 Freeholder reorganization. Levine is hoping he can convince Murphy and others to buy into his effort to revive a plan to convince Amazon to locate its HQ2 in Somerset County and Newark. SOMERVILLE – New York’s loss may be Somerset County’s gain, if the county Freeholder Director …
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Tyrone Harrison. (Photo courtesy Project Exceed.) Update 3: Garcia on Feb. 22 was indicted on a number of charges in connection with the incident, including aggravated manslaughter in the first degree, vehicular homicide in the second degree, knowingly leaving the scene of an accident resulting in death in the second degree, causing death while driving with a suspended license in …
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Rasheem Robinson. Photo: Franklin Township Police Department. A 25-year-old New York man was arrested on burglary and theft charges Feb. 15 in connection with a break-in at the township Municipal Building on DeMott Lane. 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 …
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