Environment

Submitted by Task Force member Barbara Cuthbert. Each month, the Task Force meets at the Municipal Building, 475 DeMott Lane, and all who want to be informed, get involved, and share insights are welcome and encouraged to attend and participate. Meetings start at 7 p.m. in Council Chambers on the fourth Thursday of each month (except it will be the …

The Somerset County Park Commission Colonial Park Gardens will welcome visitors to tour the Fragrance and Sensory Garden and enjoy a lecture by David Hyde of Well-Sweep Herb Farm. “Sense and Scents-Ability – The Exotic World of Herbs & Spices” is scheduled for Saturday, August 5 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. A guided tour at 11 a.m. will feature …

Submitted by Somerset County Park Commission. The Horticulture staff at Colonial Park Gardens will present a children’s workshop, “Little Wigglers”, How to Make Your Own Composting Bin” from 10 a.m. to noon May 27. Children age 5 to 12 (limit 10 children who must be accompanied by an adult) will learn about ‘vermicomposting,’ the term used for composting with worms. …

A dozen proposed landscape re-designs for the Griggstown and Blackwells Mills causeways will be on display from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. May 15-26 at the D&R Canal State Park Headquarters, 15 Mapleton Road in Princeton. The re-designs were created by Rutgers University students. One re-design for each causeway along the Millstone Valley National Scenic Byway will be chosen. The …

The long-delayed and controversial plan to dredge a 10-mile stretch of the D&R Canal in the township is set to begin in November, according to information from the New Jersey Water Supply Authority. Delays to the $52 million project, which was initially slated to begin in 2014, have forced a doubling of the cost to NJWSA customers, according to the …

Update: The program has been cancelled. No alternate dates were provided. The Somerset County Park Commission’s Colonial Park Gardens staff will present “Flower Buds Let’s Get Growing,” a Children’s Garden Workshop from 10 a.m. to noon May 13 on Colonial Drive across from Parking Lot C. The event’s rain date is May 20. Children aged 5 to 8 will create …

The Hageman Farm on South Middlebush Road was the scene April 29 for an Arbor Day commemoration which included tree planting and sapling giveaways. The event was hosted by the Franklin Township Shade Tree Commission, in conjunction with the Meadows Foundation and local Boy and Girl Scout troops. During the event, local Scouts helped plant four species of trees at …

Submitted by Sara Malone, Chair of the Shade Tree Commission. Arbor Day will be commemorated this year in the township with a ceremonial tree planting and the giving away of 500 tree seedlings, courtesy of the Franklin Township Shade Tree Commission. The commission, in conjunction with the Meadows Foundation and local Boy and Girl Scout troops, will host an Arbor …

Update: “Blowdowns” at the proposed Transco natural gas compressor station 206 could occur four to five times a week, for four to six weeks, while the compressor station is being tested, a company spokesman said. A blowdown is a forced release of gas into the air. Transco spokesman Christopher Stockton said that the number of blowdown events vary, based on …

It was far from the blizzard it was forecast to be, but the winter storm that that hit the area March 14 still managed to cause some chaos. The storm dropped between 5 and 5.5 inches on the township, and, according to the National Weather Service, that was on the low end for Somerset County. The NWS recorded snowfall amounts …