High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Somerset Spectator is a regional newspaper in Somerset County, New Jersey that was established on September 11, 1969 by Marsha Senz, Roslyn Westheimer and Judith Quintman as the weekly newspaper that gives "a hoot about Franklin." These days, the paper serves as "The newspaper for southern Somerset County." The paper`s mascot, an owl, has watched over the growth of the area and the newspaper since issue one.