Bedminster

  • The Far Hills-Bedminster Fire Department received a $129,706 first-responder grant from the Homeland Security Department. Officials with the 40-member, all-volunteer department said they will use the funding to replace the station’s existing communications equipment, allowing firefighters to communicate with the Somerset County Office of Emergency Management and better coordinate multi-agency responses to emergencies. Congressman Ferguson announced the funding at the department with Far Hills Mayor Carl Torsilieri and Bedminster Mayor Robert Holtaway.

  •  Congressman Ferguson voted to reduce taxes for Bedminster residents, including doubling the child tax credit to $1,000, reducing the marriage penalty faced by two-income families, making college expenses tax deductible, reducing taxes on capital gains and dividends, and reducing all tax brackets benefiting every worker in Bedminster.

  •  Congressman Ferguson nominated Nicholas Mole of Bedminster to the U.S. Military Academy in West Point, N.Y.

  •  Congressman Ferguson voted to provide Bedminster public schools with more than $37,221 in federal elementary and secondary education aid in fiscal year 2007. Congressman Ferguson has voted to increase federal education funding for New Jersey schools by more than 33 percent since 2001.





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