US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has denied a bid by 27 New Jersey suburban towns — including Montgomery Township — to halt the New Jersey law ordering them to allow for more affordable housing in their communities.

Johnson & Johnson on Feb. 18 announced a more than $1 billion investment in a new next generation cell therapy manufacturing facility in Pennsylvania that will provide 4,000 construction jobs and 500 skilled biomanufacturing jobs once it is fully operational. The site in Lower Gwynedd, Montgomery County, is 39 miles from 199 Grandview Road in Montgomery Township, where J&J built a manufacturing plant in the 1970s that included diaper production.

A major winter storm is forecast to impact Montgomery Township from Sunday, Feb. 22, through Monday, Feb. 23, with significant heavy snow, high winds, and potential blizzard conditions, according to the National Weather Service. Total snowfall could exceed 14–20 inches, with the heaviest rates of 1–2 inches per hour occurring Sunday evening. Montgomery Public Schools, the Somerset County Library, and the Montgomery Municipal building are all closed on Tuesday.

Joyce Fisher Lefens, 98, of Belle Mead, NJ, died peacefully at home of congestive heart failure on January 31, 2026 with family by her side. She was born in Fairfield Township, MI on April 13, 1927, the youngest of Harry and Iva Fisher’s five children.

Police announced on February 10 the arrest of three Trenton men in relation to a residential burglary of an occupied residence in Montgomery Township, NJ.

Some residents have raised questions on social media regarding whether the Johnson & Johnson diaper manufacturing site and office complex on Grandview Road in Skillman, which now goes by the name Kenvue, is contaminated. Township Administrator Lori Savron asked independent environmental consultant Rohan Tadas, CHMM, LSRP, to report on whether the property has a contamination issue.

In a wooded area off Dead Tree Run on the former Terhune Farm in Montgomery Township is an old, squeaky but well-engineered, self-governing windmill, about some 40 feet in height, that is visible from the road.