Through every grant application, every zoning meeting, every ribbon-cutting, one guiding principle remains unchanged: Bernardsville will grow, but it will never grow up into something it isn’t.“We have to evolve,” Mayor Canose says, standing outside the train station as another train glides in.“But we have the oppotunity to decide what that evolution looks like. And so far, I like what I see.” In 2025, with new stairways rising, historic buildings glowing under fresh paint, and tables spilling onto sidewalks every night, Bernardsville feels exactly like what it has always been: a small town that somehow keeps getting better at being itself. 46 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 06, ISSUE 12
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