HE HAS QUESTIONS – Zoning Board vice-chairman Robert Shepherd had questions about the Tawheed Dawah Center Masjid’s application at the November 20 hearing. The first Zoning Board of Adjustment hearing on a mosque planned for a South Middlebush Road parcel ended on a confusing note, with members of the public and a Board member noting that the project’s application did …

TRADITION CONTINUES – Vimal Sodhani, founder of the Sodhani Foundation, speaks at the November 20 Board of Education meeting. The township school district was once again the beneficiary of a local philanthropist’s largess. Vimal Sodhani, founder of the Sodhani Foundation, at the November 20 Board of Education meeting presented the district with a $10,000 donation for this year’s Invention Competition.

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ARTIST’S RENDERING – The Tawheed Dawah Center is looking to change the approved building design and get permission for a more intense use than was approved for its predecessor. The Zoning Board of Adjustment is set to hear on November 20 an application for a 19,000-square-foot mosque targeted for a South Middlebush Road parcel that had previously been approved for …

ROAD WORK GRANT – Work on New Brunswick Road between Willow Road and Cedar Grove Lane – except the bridge over Al’s Creek – is scheduled to begin in the Spring. The Township will receive more than $300,000 from a state grant program for work on a section of New Brunswick Road. The $316,190 grant from the municipal aid grant …

Photo: GoFundMe. A township resident displaced by an October 29 fire on Amethyst Way has started a GoFundMe campaign for financial support. SueEllen Genovese wrote on her fundraising page that she was alerted to a fire in her next-door neighbor’s house by a passing Good Samaritan.

Maurice Langford, Sr., 41, of Somerset, passed away on November 10 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Maurice proudly served four years in the United States Marine Corps. Stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego, he completed tours in Iraq and Japan. After his service, he and his family settled in …

NOT HAPPY – The crowd of residents, mostly from Canal Walk, who watched the August 6 Planning Board hearing on approval conditions for the B9 warehouse development. (File photo). There was more legal wrangling November 17 in the controversial B9 warehouse development on Schoolhouse Road. Attorneys for the the developer and a Canal Walk-based citizens group opposing the development argued …

Township crafters and artists have until noon on November 19 to submit their applications for the 47th Annual Festival of Trees to showcase their tree-decorating artistry at the Environmental Education Center in Basking Ridge. More than 40 trees featuring themes chosen by the decorators will fill the EEC’s large open rooms as local musicians play visitors through the exhibition. The …

A township resident is among 16 Raritan Valley Community College students participating in staged readings of famous playwrights’ works. Anusha Khan of Somerset will join her fellow Arts & Design department students in reading scenes and monologues written by Neil LaBute, Federico Garcia Lorca, Theresa Rebeck, Deena Ann Rose, John Patrick Shanley, Sam Shepard, Tennessee Williams, and August Wilson.