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RE/MAX InStyle today announced the opening of its new office at 21 Belle Mead, Griggstown Road, in Belle Mead, NJ.

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|Updated Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 2:38 pm ET

RE/MAX InStyle today announced the opening of its new office at 21 Belle Mead, Griggstown Road, in Belle Mead, NJ. Cynthia Fowlkes serves as broker of record for the new location.

The new office is the second RE/MAX InStyle location in New Jersey. The brokerage opened its first office in 2013 in Skillman at 1378 Route 206, suite 202.

RE/MAX InStyle selected the Belle Mead location due to its prime location in the heart of Montgomery. The new office provides convenient access to shopping, dining, highways and public transportation. The office also allows RE/MAX InStyle to expand its reach to homebuyers and sellers throughout Somerset County, including Hillsborough, Bridgewater, Franklin, Raritan and Branchburg.

“Our expansion into Belle Mead is vital to the future growth and success of RE/MAX InStyle,” said Cynthia Fowlkes, broker/owner, RE/MAX InStyle. “Our agents are top performers and excited to expand their presence through this new location. We are committed to providing homebuyers and sellers throughout Somerset County with superior customer service.”

In addition to Cynthia Fowlkes, RE/MAX InStyle’s broker/owner team includes Doug Swearengin and Marie DeCicco. The team maintains an impressive track record of professional and community involvement. Fowlkes, Swearengin and DeCicco each hold membership with the National Association of Realtors (NAR) and the New Jersey Association of Realtors (NJAR). The team supports several non-profit organizations as well, including Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, New York City Relief, and Move for Hunger.

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RE/MAX InStyle is looking for like-minded real-estate professionals who are committed to excellence to join its new Belle Mead location. Interested applicants may contact Yadi Maffei at 908-917-6301.

About RE/MAX InStyle

Established in 2013 in Skillman, NJ, RE/MAX InStyle is committed to empowering agents by providing excellence through entrepreneurial and hands-on leadership. RE/MAX InStyle opened its second location in Belle Mead in 2019. The brokerage includes a staff of nearly 30. To learn more about RE/MAX InStyle, visit WWW.GETINSTYLE.INFO.

Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health and HSC Commissioner Sarah Adelman hold ceremonial $5M check. Assemblyman Roy Freiman, Assemblywoman Sadaf Jaffer and Sen. Andrew Zwicker look on. Photo Credit: Carrier Clinic

By TAPinto staff

PublishedSeptember 7, 2022 at 10:34 PM

BELLE MEAD, NJ - A growing number of young people experience mental health problems, a nationwide behavioral health crisis that is impacting New Jersey’s youth to devastating effect and even more so following the Covid-19 pandemic.

One of the biggest challenges to providing pediatric behavioral health is an overburdened system that is leaving children and teens waiting five or more days in acute care hospital emergency rooms for access to appropriate care and services.

Legislators from the 16th District - Sen. Andrew Zwicker, Assemblyman Roy Freiman and Assemblywoman Sadaf Jaffer were jointed by Assembly Speaker Craig J. Coughlin Wednesday at the Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic to highlight the combined $10 million state investment – $5 million from the FY2022 State Budget and $5 million from FY2023 – to support the capital expansion of the Carrier Clinic Child and Adolescent inpatient program.

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“Our young people are vulnerable and the biggest challenge families are up against is time,” said Coughlin (D-Middlesex). “Right now, children and teens are waiting far too long to get into the right facility, referred to the right doctor’s office, and connected to the appropriate resources. Speaking to mental health practitioners who are on the front lines, one of the things I hear about often is the lack of in-patient beds and that’s a need that this funding will help fulfill.”

The largest behavioral health facility in New Jersey, the Hackensack Meridian Health Carrier Clinic has planned a $28 million expansion. With the help of state funding, the project includes:

· Up to 52 inpatient rooms for children, adolescents, and adults;

· An Academic Teaching Center and Medical Staff Suite to expand the capacity to teach physicians and other mental health professionals; and

· The creation of a new Family Support and Resource Center, which will help patients and their families through treatment.

"We know that the only way to tackle this youth mental health crisis, is through collaboration with strong partners - government, other health care partners and community stakeholders," said Robert C. Garrett, CEO of Hackensack Meridian Health. “Together, we are making a difference.”

Continuing to prioritize a robust policy response amid the current mental health crisis, estimates put funding into mental health over the past two years at more than double New Jersey’s cumulative investment in the prior decade.

“As the parent of three young adults, I am deeply troubled by the growing number of children and teenagers struggling with their mental health,” said Zwicker (D-Somerset, Mercer, Middlesex, Hunterdon). “We can, and we must, do more to ensure those in need of care are able to get it. I am grateful the legislature has taken action in prioritizing mental health funding over the last two years. This expansion will help to connect more residents with the support they need, when they need it.”

“Providing proper resources for behavioral health for our children has existed well before the pandemic, but is now even more evident,” said Freiman (D-Somerset, Mercer, Middlesex, Hunterdon). “Many of our children are facing behavioral health challenges, and for too long, parents have struggled to locate the urgent care that they need. This funding will help the Carrier Clinic provide these critical services for our children.”

“New Jersey families can sometimes struggle to access mental health care for their children,” said Jaffer (D-Somerset, Mercer, Middlesex, Hunterdon). “By adding beds specifically for the behavioral health needs of children, we are working to create healthier, happier, and more resilient communities."

Last week, as part of ongoing awareness campaigns during Suicide Prevention Month, the Speaker also ighlighted the state’s $12 million appropriation for the New Jersey Pediatric Psychiatric Collaborative (NJPPC). Supporting outpatient mental health care, the NJPPC helps to train pediatricians to provide care to lower acuity cases, and connects kids in need of higher-level services with specialized providers and programs.

“Governor Murphy’s administration in partnership with Speaker Coughlin and the legislature has made historic investments in the Fiscal Year 2023 budget to support and expand mental health services, particularly for young people who are struggling,” said Department of Human Services Commissioner Sarah Adelman. “These funds are building the pipeline of mental health professionals, creating more bed capacity, investing in innovation and increasing access to services for individuals across New Jersey’s communities. This expansion of services by the Carrier Clinic comes at a critically important time and these historic investments have helped make this possible.”

New Jersey has taken several steps to improve access to behavioral health care over the years: expanding mental health early intervention programs, issuing licenses for additional treatment beds, promoting measures to improve access to substance use disorder treatment and support services, and working to expand readily available access to behavioral health treatment providers. Earlier in July, the state also announced the funding for mobile crisis response in support of nationwide 988-crisis hotline.

Mountainview Park in Hillsborough

Pictured (from left) are Somerset County Park Commission Attorney Betsy Flanagan, Parks Deputy Director Cynthia Sullivan, Park Rangers Manager David Dendler, Parks Director Raymond Brown, Park Commissioner Kevin McCallen, Freeholder Director Patricia Walsh, Commissioners D.J. Hunsinger and Helen Haines, Freeholder Patrick Scaglione, Commissioners Dot Paluck and Scott Ross, Freeholder Deputy Director Peter Palmer, Commission President and former Gov. Donald DiFrancesco, and Parks Deputy Director/Business Administrator Daniel Livak. (courtesy photo)

HILLSBOROUGH - Members of the Somerset County Freeholders and county Park Commission got an update on the nearly completed Mountain View Park during a recent site visit.

Freeholder Director Patricia Walsh announced that the new county regional park on the 369-acre site, part of the former GSA Belle Mead Depot, will be open to the public in the spring of 2017.

"We're very excited to see the progress here," Walsh said. "The county now has over 15,000 acres of preserved parkland and open space. Mountain View Park will be a great addition to our recreational offerings."

The property is next to the county's 5,500-acre Sourland Mountain Preserve and is in close proximity to the township's Ann Van Middlesworth Park. The property is flat and relatively open, providing a sweeping vista of the Sourland Mountain, according to a news release.

The township agreed to jointly acquire the property with Somerset County in 2008. The Somerset County Improvement Authority ultimately acquired the property in 2009 for just under $15.8 million.

Following the purchase, the county and township established a committee of municipal and county officials to oversee the remediation, development and maintenance of the property. The funds from the purchase were placed in escrow accounts and have been used toward a massive clean-up of the site.

The GSA Joint Administrative Committee oversaw the preparation of a master plan that identified a long-range plan and strategies to develop the proposed site into a regional park to serve the park and recreational needs of the residents in the southern portion of Somerset County.

The final plan included the development of a complex of lighted baseball/softball fields. Other amenities include batting cages, a playground, pavilion, concession/restroom facility, park maintenance facility and paved perimeter multi-use trail with associated parking.

The project contract award of $16.7 million went to Tomco Construction of Lake Hopatcong. Groundbreaking was held just under two years ago, on Oct. 25, 2014.

Babs Leese/Somerset Reporter

HILLSBOROUGH — A former prisoner-of-war camp may be filled with nature trails, a recreation center, a skate park and ball fields if Hillsborough residents get their way.

About 50 residents showed up to a design charette on Wednesday night to share what they wanted, and didn’t want, to see in the former Belle Mead Depot, an old government property from World War II.

Gathering around maps supplied by the architects and engineers who are working with the township on plans, residents placed cardboard pieces on the maps to represent what they wanted for the depot.

Babs Leese/Somerset Reporter

The cardboard pieces had scaled-to-size pictures of go-kart tracks, ball fields, an aquatic center, an amphitheater and a dog park, among other choices.

“It’s like playing monopoly,” said Hillsborough resident Dennis Sitarik, who lives on Oxford Place near the depot site.

The idea was to get a picture of what would fit and how possible options could be arranged, said Patrick Hoagland, an architect with Kentucky-based Brandstetter Carroll Inc., a company that has been working with the township since August on designing the depot.

“It’s to help us get an idea of what should be included and what priorities should be,” Hoagland said, adding, “It’s a matter of fitting everything in and doing it in a way that’s pleasing to everyone.”

The design charette, though, showed that it might be hard to please everyone in Hillsborough, especially those living in the immediate area of the depot.

Although residents collectively ranked nature trails, a comprehensive indoor recreation center and a skate park highest, each person seemed to have a different vision for the 369-acre plot.

“Everybody’s got a wish here,” said Hillsborough resident George Cox, who lives near Sitarik on Oxford Place.

Cox, who has lived near the depot for 10 years, said he would like to see a good mix of new ball fields and open space preservation. But he added that he doesn’t want more lights glowing long into the night at those ball fields.

His house on Oxford Place is close enough to see the lights from fields at another park.

“I’m all for more ball fields, but don’t go late into the evening,” he said.

He and Sitarik were hesitant about building a new recreation center and adding to the taxpayer’s burden. Sitarik said he worried about the corresponding money for building and maintaining swimming pools and centers.

Keith Mindish, who described himself as the representative of the Cub Scouts at the charette, said he would like to see a banquet-type facility instead of a recreation center.

His 6-year-old son is a Cub Scout, and Mindish would like to have a place for scout activities and sports ceremonies.

Vicki Schwartz, who lives in the Woodfield Estates area of Hillsborough, said she would rather see the wetland and natural areas left alone in the depot property.

The property is home to a plethora of wildlife like spotted turtles, frogs, snakes and deer, said Charles Cunion, a representative from the RBA Group, another engineering and architectural firm that is working with Brandstetter and the township.

Schwartz said the important thing should be that the township should not build facilities that are already built elsewhere in Hillsborough.

“They should take advantage of what’s here, and that’s natural land,” said Schwartz, who volunteers as a naturalist for non-profit organizations.

Her table submitted a list of things they did not want along with what they did want. The don’t-want list had things like a velodrome, or an arena for track cycling, and an indoor recreation center.

Other residents vied for performing arts and cultural centers. Some wanted a massive indoor aquatic center. Many did want the huge recreation center with treadmills, basketball courts and a walking track running along the ceiling.

Others cited a lack of good biking areas in Hillsborough as a reason for installing bike trails that would run throughout the property.

The vision for the area is a mix of everything, Hoagland said in a presentation to the gathered residents. He read from a slideshow that the optimum plan would be “balanced between maintenance of existing facilities, new active and passive activities and open space for the future.”

Joetta Clark Diggs, a former Olympian and head of an advisory committee for the depot, also said a combination of the different options would be ideal.

“I would like to see a good mix of what we have in town now: youth activities, senior activities, cultural activities and family activities,” Diggs said. “I want to see something that mirrors the community.”

The committee, engineers, architects and township have a long way to go. The design process only began in August, and environmental remediation hasn’t been started in full.

The depot land was a storage site for materials during World War II, along with housing Italian prisoners of war. It continued storing materials until the 1980s, and various contaminants have leaked into the ground and surrounding area during that time, said Tom Miller, counsel for Somerset County.

Complete environmental remediation won’t begin, though, until a plan is set in place.

“They have to go hand-in-hand,” Miller said. “As we design it we want to excavate and shape the area to facilitate the uses. That way we can save money by doing both.”

Residents threw around the issue of money during the charette, wondering aloud where funding would come from for the design and if it would be the responsibility of the township or the county to pay.

Although the park will be located in Hillsborough, it will serve as a county park for the southern half of Somerset County, Hoagland said.

The county and Hillsborough bought the property together and remain 50-50 partners, Miller said. Both entities have to agree on whatever will go in the area.

On the same note, residents also asked whether money from the parks would go back to the township or the county as a whole.

Those questions didn’t receive any answers. It’s only the first phase of the design process that will last until March, and Hoagland said the budget is nowhere in the picture yet.

“We haven’t even begun to do that yet,” Hoagland said. “We like to do a lot of listening before we start designing.”

He added, though, that the budget “is going to be big.”

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By Jeff Grant, LD 16 Senate Belle Mead, NJ - www.jeffreygrant4statesenate.org

This coming June 8^th, district 16 primary voters will have the opportunity to accomplish something extraordinary – choose two non-establishment businessmen to compete in the November general election!

New Jersey and America’s experience with career politicians occupying elected office gives citizens status quo government. Not anymore. Jeff Grant for district 16 Senate and Hirsh Singh for governor with our campaign slogan “Make New Jersey Great Again” are offering New Jersey the opportunity to break the bonds of the old-guard and bring in fearless patriots that will fight to finally make government work for us.

Jeff is a non-establishment patriot, born in Trenton, raised in Titusville who spent his career working in New Jersey. For the past 10 years he has led and continues to lead the Central Jersey Conservative Union educating and networking with citizens that believe in our Constitution and in improving our government by protecting our freedom.

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Truth in government is an oxymoron. Citizens are often not informed about legislation, regulation, and education policy until it becomes final. So just as long-standing laws govern truth in lending, advertising, and labeling, Jeff will advance common standards of truth throughout government. By leveraging the utility of social media, citizens will enjoy quick and meaningful notification of proposed legislation, all aspects of the amendment process and thus have every opportunity to intervene along the way. With this information voters will also be best empowered to vote their mind on election day. Further, because regulations behave like laws, the same will apply to our regulatory process. Finally, parents will be empowered to readily keep abreast of state and local education policies and practices so that they can more easily fulfill their responsibility to educate their children.

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