A small plane crashed Wednesday night near Somerset Airport in Bedminster, investigators said.

Two people were aboard the single-engine Piper PA-28 when it crashed around 7 p.m., an FAA spokesperson told NJ Advance Media.

The spokesperson could not comment on the condition of the occupants. Local police could not immediately be reached for comment.

The plane is registered to Ameriflyers of Texas Inc., a flight training institution based out of Dallas, Texas. The institution’s website states it has a school in Morristown, but it was unclear where this plane was traveling to or from where it came.

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Summit Council President Lisa Allen, widely viewed as a rising star in local Republican politics, has resigned less than halfway through her term.

Allen is moving to a different part of Summit and will no longer reside in the politically competitive Ward 2, which she has represented since her appointment in 2021, the New Jersey Globe has learned.

Holding off on a resignation announcement until last night’s council meeting allowed Republicans to avoid a special election for her unexpired term in November.

Instead, the city’s Republican county committee will submit three candidates to the common council – without Allen, the GOP still has a 4-2 majority – who will pick a replacement; if they don’t, the party will fill the seat.  The interim council member will serve until a November 2025 special election.

If Assemblywoman Nancy Munoz (R-Summit) doesn’t seek re-election next year, Allen had been considered the leading candidate to replace her; that still may be the case.  Another Ward 2 councilman, Greg Vartan, could emerge as a Democratic Assembly candidate in 2025, either against Munoz or Allen, the GOP state committeewoman from Union County.

Allen did not respond to a call seeking comment.

The deputy city clerk, Nicole Kotiga, would not say if she was aware of Allen’s resignation but said a letter of resignation had not yet been filed with her office.

It’s back to school time in New Jersey, and that means students will soon be reuniting with friends they haven’t seen all summer. But in some of New Jersey’s largest high schools, there might be more strangers than friends.

The average enrollment for high schools in the Garden State is just over 1,000 students, according to an NJ Advance Media analysis of data from the 2022-23 school year, the most recently available data. (See how large your high school is in the chart below.)

The state’s largest high school, Passaic County Technical Institute in Wayne, had 3,302 students in 2022-23. That top spot could be challenged in future rankings with the opening this year of the $283.8 million Perth Amboy High School, with a projected enrollment of 3,300 students.