🌱 Patch AM: Basking Ridge Approves Amended Plan For 280-Unit Affordable Housing Project

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In today's newsletter:

• Key affordable housing project in Basking Ridge clears final planning hurdle
• How will Basking Ridge shoppers cope when Stop & Shop shuts down?

Also on today's calendar: Operation Helping Hand: Running for Recovery 5K Run and Walk and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the tractor say to the plow? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Saturday: Some sun, then clouds, with a high of 79 and low of 67 degrees.
• Sunday: Some rain and a thunderstorm, temps: high: 79, low: 63.
• Monday: Mostly sunny and less humid, with a high of 76 and low of 50 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Basking Ridge Approves Amended Plan For 280-Unit Affordable Housing Project (patch.com) — Residents in Basking Ridge will see a long-planned 280-unit affordable housing project move forward after the Bernards Township Planning Board approved an amended plan. The updated design keeps the same unit count but adds safety and resiliency features, including balcony protections, fencing along steep areas, and a generator to power part of the community center during outages, with extra fire-safety review required.
   

• Stop & Shop closing Westfield, Basking Ridge stores (nj.com subscription) — Basking Ridge shoppers will lose their neighborhood Stop & Shop on South Finley Avenue, with the store set to close October 29 after a company review. The Westfield location will also shut a week earlier, though Stop & Shop says no additional New Jersey closures are planned and employees will be offered transfers to other stores.
   

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★ Featured events ★

Saturday September 12
• Operation Helping Hand: Running for Recovery 5K Run and Walk →
  Duke Island Park, 191 Old York Rd, Bridgewater
  9:00 am
Sunday September 13
• Rocking Horse Rehab: Equine Therapy Open House →
  256 S Maple Ave, Bernards
  12:00 pm
Wednesday September 16
• Drew Empty Nester Semester: Digital Literacy and Pop Culture →
  Drew University, 36 Madison Ave, Madison
  7:00 pm
Sunday September 20
• ACEing Autism Tennis Clinic Begins →
  Green Knoll Tennis Center, 587 Garretson Rd, Bridgewater
  9:00 am

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Other local events

Saturday September 12
• Cedars Community Garage Sale →
  301 Arrowood Way, Bernards
  9:00 am
• The Cedars at Basking Ridge Community-wide Garage Sale →
  301 Arrowood Way, Bernards
  9:00 am
• Tremendous Home & Office Furniture Warehouse Liquidation Sale →
  Costco Wholesale, 100 Grand Ave, North Brunswick Township
  9:30 am
• Atlantic Adult Day Center Open House →
  Atlantic Adult Day Center, 200 Mt Airy Rd, Bernards
  10:00 am
• Meet The 4th Light Dragoons →
  Historic Van Horne House, 941 E Main St, Bridgewater
  10:00 am
Sunday September 13
• Friends of Great Swamp NWR Photo Contest Awards Presentation →
  Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, 32 Pleasant Plains Rd
  1:30 pm
• Live Concert! Maggie Worsdale Sings the Hits of 1976 →
  Bernards Township Library, 32 S Maple Ave, Bernards
  2:00 pm
Tuesday September 15
• VIRTUAL The Worthiness Crisis: The Real Root of Burnout Nobody is Talking About, with Diane Lang →
  BernardsLibrary.org
  7:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Saint James Men of Charity to Host 15th Annual Harvest Fest —Tom Grady Read on Patch
• Somerset Hills YMCA Partners with Bernards Township to Provide School Supplies to Nearly 50 Local Youth —Somerset Hills YMCA Read on Patch

• Chipotle posted a job opening for Crew Member in Bernardsville. Apply here.
• Acosta posted a job opening for Merchandising Specialist in Berkeley Heights. Apply here. You can search for other jobs near Basking Ridge here.

🗞 Nearby News

Bernardsville

• Sales Representative - DISH jobs hiring near Bernardsville, NJ at EchoStar (echostar.com)
• Football: Gov. Livingston Battle Back, Fall to Bernards 49-29 (tapinto.net)

Mendham

• $1M+ Raised For Chester Woman's Daughter After NYC Slaying (patch.com)

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P.S. The answer to today's riddle: Hold me close John Deere. (Thank you Jenny H. for sending it in!)
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