In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month this May, the Montgomery Township Police Department and Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services are reaffirming their commitment to compassionate, effective responses to mental health crises through the ARRIVE Together Program.

What started as a letter-to-the editor in 1985 is now a 40-year staple institution of the community. At a local tree planting in Montgomery Veterans Park on April 24, Ewa Zak and her husband Greg Kaganowicz told a reporter how the Montgomery Shade Tree Committee got its start.

The Montgomery Police Department, in partnership with Montgomery Office of Emergency Management (OEM), is proud to announce the official unveiling of its new Swift Water Rescue Program.

Detectives from the Montgomery Township Police Department recently conducted a school safety presentation for middle school students at Princeton Montessori School. The interactive presentation covered topics including bullying, internet safety, responsible use of phones and digital media, and the importance of reporting concerns through the “See Something, Say Something” approach.

An oft-repeated tale about the Blawenburg Band’s founding is probably apocryphal (often believed but unverified). But it’s such a colorful part of this beloved band’s history that it deserves retelling. Sometime around 1890 (or so the story goes), a shipping crate — as mysterious as it was heavy — arrived in the farming community of Blawenburg. It was addressed to “General Delivery” and (significantly) marked for “General Recreation.”

Peter Van Der Veer was a simple farmer. Born in Flatbush in 1734, he married Janetye Schenck in 1758 and soon settled on the Millstone River/Bedens Brook intersection in Belle Mead to farm and to raise his seven children.

Every month or so (when I remember…) I face the challenge of administering flea and tick preventatives to my pack of dogs. The tablets are typically large, flavored, and deemed inedible by all but my Lab mix who routinely eats scraps of paper and tissues thereby rendering his opinion moot.