Congressman Mike Ferguson

Far Hills

• 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 Far Hills 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 Far Hills.

•  Congressman Ferguson secured more than $10 million to make improvements along an eight-mile section of Route 22 in Somerset County – one of the most dangerous roads in New Jersey. The Route 22 Sustainable Corridor Project is expected to break ground in 2007 between Routes 202-206 and Chimney Rock Road in Bridgewater. The project includes building new interchanges and overpasses, eliminating dangerous U-turns in the medians, and creating local and express lanes between Interstate 287 and Routes 202-206.