News-pourri

The deadline is fast approaching for donations to a college fund established for siblings of a township teenager killed over the summer in an automobile accident. Andrew Russoniello, 13, was killed Aug. 29 when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Amwell Road.

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  Submitted by Victory Chase.

A handful of applications for home renovations were given the thumbs’-up Dec. 6 by the township Historic Preservation Advisory Commission. Most of the applications were for roof repairs, although two were for major home renovations.

Veterans, their families, and advocates are invited to a Town Hall Meeting and Claims Clinic Dec. 14, at the Richard Hall Community Health Center at 500 North Bridge St., Bridgewater. The claims clinic will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The town hall meeting, hosted by Lillie Nuble, director of the Newark Regional Office, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, …

The final tallies of the Nov. 8 write-in votes were released this week, and they show that 543 write-in votes were cast, with the bulk of them going to the two late-starting Board of Education candidates. Andre Fryson and Kunal Lakhia announced their candidacies for the school board on Facebook, after well after the filing deadline had passed.

  The holidays are popping up all over the township.

The repair of faulty roadwork will result in the partial closure of DeMott Lane during the week of Nov. 28. The township was not satisfied with the milling and paving done on DeMott earlier in the fall by Somerset-based DeSantis Construction, so the company will fix the problems, township manager Robert Vornlocker told the Township Council at its Nov. 22 …

Six area families that were “adopted” by a township church will be sure to have a hearty Thanksgiving dinner this year. That’s because the families – two each in the township, South Bound Brook and Somerville – received holiday baskets complete with turkey and all of the fixings.

A bill that will create an unpaid “state oceanographer” position, sponsored by state Assemblyman Joe Danielsen (D-17), was recently signed into law. “Science ought to be at the forefront of public policy decisions regarding the oceans,” Danielsen said in a press release about the new law. “In addition to safeguarding the wellbeing of marine ecosystems – a worthy goal in …