West Amwell Times

The Township Committee Meeting on October 7th, 2026 continued the 2026 trend of being chaotic and unpredictable, as Mayor Deal continued to upend agendas and bring in last minute, unvetted materials to present to the public. For reference, we covered the agenda in a previous article available here. Our full video of the multi-hour meeting is available below: https://www.youtube.com/live/hwLIPX-FLLs Mayor Deal's Push to Nuke the Shared Construction Office The Mayor started the

The 10/7/2026 West Amwell Township Committee Meeting started up with Mayor Deal reordering the agenda. Again. This time, she was presenting the data she claims she has been compiling for months about the financial situation with the shared service construction office we host, that services both West Amwell and East Amwell. Mark Twain once said "There are lies, damn lies, and statistics", a diatribe meant to show how statistics could be used to twist and manipulate information

The Livestream Link for Tonight's West Amwell Township Committee Meeting, 10/07/2026 at 7:00pm https://www.youtube.com/live/hwLIPX-FLLs The published agenda is shown below.

The agenda for next Wednesday's Township Committee meeting dropped. The agenda is available here: https://www.westamwelltwp.org/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Agenda/_10072026-89 As usual, we will be live streaming the meeting. Items of note: Open Public Comment. The two open public comment periods are back. Each period also reverts back to the 5 minute limit per person. At the last public meeting, Mayor Deal tried to illegally curtail the open to public periods to just 1, and to take

October 3, 2026 West Amwell Township By Mike Spille We've documented extensively the failures of the silt fences at 25 Hewitt Road over the past several months, but there is a flip side to those fences as well: what happens if they partially work and hold the water back for an extended period of time? We have a partial answer at a neighboring property at 19 Hewitt Road, the Dupuis' residence. Figure 1 below shows the relative locations of 25 Hewitt Road, 19 Hewitt Road, and a

The Township announced today on its website "West Amwell Receives DEP Grant", with a link to a larger New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announcement. The DEP announcement is available here. https://dep.nj.gov/newsrel/26_0042/ The website announcement appears somewhat inaccurate, we are not receiving grants at this time, but instead have been designated part of a new "Resilient NJ Region" called the Delaware River Sourland Mountain River Region by the DEP. We d

This is an AI-based summary and recap of last Monday's Board of Education meeting for South Hunterdon Regional School District. The full video of the meeting is available here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Nn4QTt2VRMI The agenda is available here: https://go.boarddocs.com/nj/shrsd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DXCGPL44C65C Summary:

Figure 1 - Totals spent on LPS and Middle School up to Fall, 2025 Since the new Middle School and revamped LPS(*) have come online post-referendum, there have been a large number of additional mainteannce outlays that are driving the total costs of ownership of these buildings through the roof. To help people understand why people are so upset these expenditures, you need to look at how much we spent on these buildings from 2022 to the fall of 2025. (*) Yes, LPS was renamed t

By: Mike Spille Updated to indicate proper surveying is occurring There has been some movement on the 25 Hewitt Road situation. Not necessarily all good, but some of it at least is in the right direction. But there is still a lot of work to do, and some government agencies still seem to be getting in the way more than helping. We gave an overview of the Township Committee Meeting where an extensive presentation was given by the 25 Hewitt Road owner's lawyer and engineer a few

The next public meeting of the South Hunterdon Regional School District is Monday, Sept 28th, 2026 We have the partial agenda (some items still TBD). The draft agenda is available here: https://go.boarddocs.com/nj/shrsd/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=DXCGPL44C65C Items of note in the agenda to keep an eye on: A resolution to appoint Superintendent Suozzo as "emergency board secretary" in the "event of an emergency or absence of the current Board Secretary from a Board of Education

We'll be doing an in-depth write up of the September 16th, 2026 Township Committee meeting. But that is for another day, and this isn't that. Right now, consider this an editorial on the current disastrous state of our Township government, and the role Mayor Deal has played in it - with this week's Township Committee meeting as the backdrop of a larger pattern. The picture headlining this article is a cartoon depiction of Mayor Deal playing the short--con called the shell gam

The Livestream for tonight will be availble at 7pm at the below Youtube link: https://youtube.com/live/KrC55NFnyhE For reminder, the agendas are discussed in an earlier article about township meetings this week.

The livestream for tonight's Land Use Board meeting will be available below. https://youtube.com/live/6XxT-IIkXWs An outline of the agenda is available in our earlier article on Township meetings this week.

By Mike Spille Editor's Note: Updated 9/15/2026 to highlight the reduced open public meeting speaking times We have a tri-fecta of meetings of Township government this week, including: Land Use Board Meeting - Tuesday, Sept 15th @7pm Board of Health Meeting - Wednesday, Sept 16th @7pm Township Committee Meeting - Wednesday, Sept 16th, Following BoH Meeting Of interest to most residents will be the Land Use Board meeting and Township Commitee Meetings. Agendas with highlights

By Mike Spille The number of interconnections and coincidences in West Amwell scandals only seem to be growing. For the past several months, the West Amwell DPW department has come under fire, as people ask why Charles "Brandon" Metz was hired to run the department - someone who does not live anywhere near West Amwell, and who was hired over others who were potentially better fits that also live closer to West Amwell. Looking back at Mr. Metz's history is troubling at best, a

By: Mike Spille Clarification: To the best of our knowledge, Golden Nugget is not owned by Enrenreich & Gelman, it is shown on the maps only to help viewers understand the location involved. Big Bear Gear. Big Bear Gear Delaware River Tubing. Lambertville Sunflower Festival. Bellemont Farms. The Quarry House. Bellemont Farm Brewery. Local residents in the Amwell Valley area of West Amwell and Hopewell Township may have heard of some or even most of these businesses and locat

By J. Walter Coyne West Amwell is currently watching an unmitigated environmental disaster play out on Hewitt Road. Multi-acre land clearing, subsurface stump burial, and the systematic destruction of natural vernal pools and wetland depressions stripped the land of its natural sponge capacity. The physical outcome was entirely predictable: routine rainstorms now send gravel, mud, and unmanaged stormwater washing across neighboring properties, gouging ditches, and blowing out

By Mike Spille Article Updated 9/6/202 With Infographic Timeline In the summer of 2025, two big things happened at the South Hunterdon Regional School District. First, they appointed a new, totally inexperienced Business Administrator named Dr. Peter Lutchko. Second, they got socially engineered out of $147,000. We've been sitting on this story since the Spring of 2026, but it's time for the public to know. By the summer of 2025, J. Andrew Harris was out as BA, and Dr. Lutchk

Cameron T. Keng, Left. West Amwell CFO Peter Suh, Right By Mike Spille As mentioned in our writeup of the September 2nd, 2026 West Amwell Township Committee Meeting, a bombshell was dropped by Committeeman Robert Baalam in the third hour of the meeting: not only had our newly installed CFO Peter Suh let a stranger into our municipal building earlier this year and had him "help" Mr. Suh with some accounting setups, Mr. Suh also gave the stranger millions of dollars of endors

By Mike Spille The consensus is nearly universal and unanimous: We all miss Tommy, and we want to see him back. And not only back, we want Tommy to be welcomed into in a safe and productive working environment. To that end, a petition is circulating asking that this situation be remedied, and that whatever is going on here, it needs to be fixed to smooth the path for Tommy to come back. The petition is available here: https://www.change.org/p/reinstate-tommy?recruiter=8860599