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

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

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

By Mike Spille The 9/2/2026 meeting of the West Amwell Township Township Committee was one for the record books. A capacity crowd, multiple contentious topics, and even a bombshell thrown in for good measure in the third hour. The full archive of the livestream is available on Youtube at the link below: https://youtube.com/live/ZqSC84H9Bjc An AI-generated transcript with timestamps and speaker attribution is also availble below. Apologies, there are still some garbled bits an

By Mike Spille At the 8/19/2026 West Amwell Township Committee meeting, one of the more curious discussions was about the format of Meeting Minutes. Specifically, the Township Attorney did not just advocate for a severely truncated form of minutes, but she actually railed at length against people having statements read into the record verbatim. This was a truly bizarre incident, because Attorney Quiñones Perez confused the living hell out of everyone. Even her advocates on th

The next West Amwell Township Committee Meeting is scheduled for September 2nd, 2026, 7pm at the Township Municipal Building. The agenda is shown below. For the full PDF of the agenda click here. Items of interest include: Ordinance 11, 2026 "Stormwater Quality" Introduction. This is a continuation of the discussions about the Township adopting ordinances to align with the NJDEP's new storm water quality standards. I have no idea why this is called "Stormwater Quality" and no

The Township Comnmittee Meeting last night went on for over four hours. A wide range of topics were discussed, but some key controversies dominated the conversation. We are trying an experiment with AI on this one, based on our video stream of the meeting. The following is a meeting summary generated by an AI video transcript processing tool. We will be following up with a raw transcript of the meeting as well. Please let us know what you think of this kind of summary - good,

The Livestream for tonight's Township Committee Meeting at 7pm at the municipal building will be available at the below link: https://www.youtube.com/live/6Qc7AmOPgnQ It does not show on the agenda yet, but the Mayor has indicated via email that potential 25 Hewitt Road remedies and actions will discussed tonight as well.

We will be live streaming the Land use Board Meeting tonight, 8/18/2026, at 7pm. A direct link to the Youtube stream is available here: https://youtube.com/live/oax5JrnohqE For reference this is the agenda.

The Land Use Board will be meeting Tuesday, August 18th at 7pm at the Municipal Building. The Township Committee Meeting will be held the following night August 19th, also at 7pm at the Municipal Building. We will be live-streaming both meetings from the Municipal Building, links to follow. Land Use Board Meeting The Land Use Board meeting agenda is available here, and is also reproduced below. There's a fair amount going on here. Of most interest to the public: A "revote" on

Last night, members of the Township Committee, Open Space, Land Use Board, Environmental Commission, and Ag Advisory Committee came together in a workshop to talk about potential tree cutting ordinances. The full video of the meeting is available below. https://www.youtube.com/live/NNOHdj6Bp38 To set the context of the meeting, recently the New Jersey State Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) mandated that municipalities enact some sort of ordinance protecting tree

This is the live-stream page for tonight's joint meeting on potential tree management ordinances in conjunction to recent State-mandated storm water management changes. The livestream will start at 6:55pm, the meeting is set to begin at 7:00pm.