The Montgomery Board of Education voted 5 to 3 on September 15 in favor of renewing Superintendent Mary E. McLoughlin's contract for five years with a 20% Increase in year one after a lengthy discussion that was at times contentious. Ultimately, the board ruled that she should be compensated commensurately with her peer superintendents.

Montgomery Township Administrator and Planning Director Lori Savron outlined an updated vision for the former Belle Mead Train Station area on September 14, including a proposed 189 market-rate apartment development. She covered the project's evolution, revised architectural concept plans, and its central role in the Montgomery Township affordable housing strategy. It is designed to offset the recent extension of affordability controls on 96 existing units at Pike Run.

The Montgomery Planning Board unanimously granted final major site plan approval tonight to Atlantic Realty to construct a one-story retail building on Route 206 in Belle Mead. Known as Building 4, it would be located within the existing Montgomery Place Shopping Center, home to Kasia Market, CVS, and other shops.

The Montgomery Board of Education plans to decide how much its school superintendent should be paid tonight as it reviews the contract of its veteran school superintendent Mary McLoughlin. The meeting begins at 6 pm in the Orchard Hill Elementary School cafeteria. The proposed five-year contract offers a salary adjustment in the first year, offering a retroactive increase from $233,398 to $279,000 (for the period beginning on July l, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027).

The skies were overcast and uncertain, but the spirits of three dozen citizens gathered in Rocky Hill's Panicaro Park on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 were clear and determined of purpose.

A Superior Court Judge decided on Friday that Belle Mead resident Siddartha Surapanani, a recent Montgomery High School graduate and pre-med student at Seton Hall University charged with vehicular homicide in the death of a woman on Route 202 in Raritan, will appear before a Grand Jury. During the hearing, Surapanani's lawyer said his client has no memory of the four days surrounding the event. The prosecutor told the judge there was THC in the defendant's urinalysis from the

As traffic is heavier than ever on Montgomery Township roads, residents are complaining. Pedestrians cannot safely cross streets, drivers speed along local roads, driving erratically and crossing double yellow lines to pass those who obey the speed limit. And, 16 fatal accidents have been registered in Somerset County so far this year. The Montgomery Township Police Department is taking proactive measures to avoid catastrophes. They conducted several targeted traffic enforcem