On September 17 at 8:50 pm, Montgomery Police, Montgomery Fire Companies 1 and 2, Montgomery EMS and Griggstown Fire Company responded to River Road at the Belle Mead-Griggstown Road intersection for a motor vehicle crash involving a vehicle that drove through the guardrail into the Millstone River.

The Montgomery Township Police in partnership with the Health Department and the American Red Cross hosted a presentation on Emergency Planning on Tuesday September 16 at the Montgomery Municipal Building – Library meeting room. The presentation contained vital information on the best ways to keep yourself and your family safe during emergencies.

One year ago, taxpayers of Montgomery Township and Rocky Hill were denied access to Montgomery High School’s tennis courts. What began as a dispute over access has since evolved into a lingering dilemma. While there have been efforts on both sides – township officials and school district administrator – to resolve the matter, taxpayers are still questioning whether there has been any substantial progress.

In a continuing effort to improve pedestrian safety, Montgomery police observed 23 drivers who failed to stop for a pedestrian in the crosswalk on Pike Run Road in Belle Mead during a four-hour period on Thursday, September 11.

Police: Two DWI Arrests in Montgomery, Another Check Mailed at Skillman Post Office Stolen

Retired Montgomery Township School District music teacher and band director Christian Smith died September 3, 2025 in New York City after a long battle with cholangiocarcinoma.

Montgomery High School students will learn about bullying/mental health, driver safety/distracted driving, and vaping/substance abuse this year in three assemblies sponsored by Montgomery's police, health department, and school district.

Patricia Yantz Potts, 81, died on September 6, 2025 at home surrounded by her loving family.

Monte Nido – one of the nation’s leading eating disorder treatment providers – opened its new residential program this summer, on Sunset Road in Montgomery. It is designed exclusively for female-identifying adolescents between the ages of 10 and 17. The inpatient care program, known as Monte Nido Clementines, addresses a growing demand for youth-specific mental health services by offering evidence-based treatment in a home-like setting.

Montgomery Township will remember local victims of the September 11, 2001 attack on America on with a ceremony at the Montgomery Fire Department #2 / Blawenburg at 6 pm today, September 11.  Three Montgomery residents and one Rocky Hill resident died in the 9/11 attacks – Brian Thomas Cummins, Steven Goldstein, Phillip L. Parker, and William F. Fallon (Rocky Hill).

Erik and Sarah Axelsen lived in their new Belle Mead home for just two weeks before disaster struck. A severe thunderstorm on Saturday, September 7, uprooted a giant oak tree on their front lawn, and it crashed through the roof of their one-story home at about 2:30 pm.

About 20 residents made public comments urging Montgomery Township governing officials to pass a resolution supporting the NJ Immigrant Trust Act (ITA), which they say will protect undocumented residents and allow them to access essential services without fear of ICE involvement. They were the only people in the audience, and at the podium, at Thursday night's Township Committee meeting.

Uprooted trees, fallen branches — even a trampoline flying through the air in the Bridgepoint section of Belle Mead — closed sections of Route 206 and River Road (Route 533) today into this evening as Montgomery Public Works crews and first responders worked to reopen and restore order throughout the township.

Montgomery native Jeff Mertz is co-founder and owner of Wildspawn Mushrooms, a blossoming agribusiness. Weekend farmers’ market attendees are often drawn to Wildspawn’s colorful array of the freshly-foraged and locally-grown fungi.

Township Administrator Lori Savron updated the community on top issues — WiFi service, the pending development of the Kenvue Corporate site in Skillman, management of the food pantry, and the imminent opening of a new, inclusive playground — at the Montgomery Township Committee meeting on Thursday, September 4.

Going back even further from the August 1995 founding of The Montgomery News, which celebrated its 30-year anniversary last month, one finds two other newspapers which — although comparatively short-lived — made tremendous contributions to the local community. Notable among them were the Montgomery Citizen (published from June 1967 to November 1968) and another, earlier Montgomery News (1984 to 1987). And in both cases, it was accomplished women writers who served ably as edi

Seeing the seating section of the borough council room much fuller than usual on August 2, Rocky Hill Mayor Bob Uhrik greeted the attendees and observed, “I think many of you are here about the municipal water bills.” Much immediate head nodding among the citizens quickly confirmed the mayor’s surmise.

John Graham, a retired attorney who practiced in Princeton, died at his home in Griggstown, NJ, on August 23, 2025 at the age of 94.

As students return to school on Thursday, September 4, police will have an increased presence in and around Montgomery Township's five campuses.

Six candidates are running for three seats on the Montgomery Board of Education in November 2025, which also represents the independent little borough of Rocky Hill.

Eli Khan, whose name adorns multi-family, industrial, and mixed-use commercial sites across Philadelphia’s affluent western suburbs on the Main Line, plans to present his concept to build 417 housing units on the former J&J/Kenvue site in Skillman at the Monday, September 8 Planning Board meeting.

Montgomery Police were busy in the last 30 days — arresting three individuals who had fallen asleep in unrelated incidents on township roadways. Two were found along Route 518 and one on Great Road. Police also issued multiple DUIs and reported car and home burglaries, and an incident of mail theft.

Locals have wondered about the future of the PJ’s Pancake House & Tavern planned for a new building in the Village Walk at Montgomery on Route 206 in Skillman, near the Route 518 intersection. Finally, a “PJ’s Pancake House” sign went up this summer, followed by a post on the Pugliese Properties Facebook page on August 22 announcing that PJ’s is “scheduled to open this fall.”

A 76-year-old man was operating a tractor in a wooded area off Hollow Road, near Service Road, in Skillman when a tree fell on him, pinning him to the tractor on Wednesday, August 27, at about 4:30 pm.