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🌱 Patch AM: Bernards Township Explores Ways To Improve Safety On Allen Road Following Fatality

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In today's newsletter:

  • Township weighs new Allen Road safety steps after Halloween fatality
  • How a Basking Ridge arrest cracked a New York car theft case

Also on today's calendar: End of Season Sale at Garden Cottage + Waiting for the Sun and 9 more events.

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

Weather forecast:

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  • Friday: Rain and drizzle in the p.m., with a high of 52 and low of 39 degrees.
  • Saturday: Rain from late morning on, temps: high: 43, low: 38.
  • Sunday: Clouds yielding to sun, with a high of 44 and low of 30 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Bernards Township Explores Ways To Improve Safety On Allen Road Following Fatality (patch.com) — Basking Ridge residents are being heard as Bernards Township and Somerset County study safety improvements on Allen Road, where local resident Bhuvana Mani was fatally struck while using a crosswalk on Halloween. Mayor Ana Duarte McCarthy says engineering studies and a potential partnership with RideWise could soon bring concrete changes focused on pedestrian, biking, and transit safety in the area.
   

• CT Man Who Damaged Rye Home Trying To Steal BMW, Then Instead Took Family's Audi Q7, Captured In NJ: Police (patch.com) — Police in Bernards Township arrested a suspect at Verizon’s Basking Ridge headquarters after he allegedly crashed the gate in a stolen SUV, helping New York authorities solve a New Year’s Day burglary and vehicle theft in Rye. Coordinated work between New Jersey and New York police led to felony charges and high bail for the Connecticut man now held in Westchester County.
   

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