Business View Magazine | December 2020

381 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2020 READINGTON TOWNSHI P , NEW JERSEY Municipal services and local businesses are plentiful, ensuring residents are well equipped to enjoy their surroundings. Readington Township relies heavily on volunteers to assist in areas such as firefighting. “We have five public parks and a series of trails and open spaces that are highly utilized,” Albanese shares. “We also have a quality public education system with four schools within the township. We have four fire departments that are all volunteer, we have a rescue squad that is mostly volunteers with some paid positions, and a transit line that comes in through Whitehouse Station and continues through to Hunterdon County. There are a few large businesses including QuickChek, a regional convenience store chain that is headquartered in Readington, and UNICOM Global that replaced Merck at that campus.” A three-person recreation team ensures there are many things to do to increase fitness and promote overall well-being in the community. Ball fields, playgrounds, basketball courts, tennis courts, summer camps, and adult programs including art classes and trips are all available and play a part in making Readington a home of choice for residents. Efforts to maintain sustainability through the township’s green campaign have also been fruitful, with the planting of 675 trees in one month alone to enhance Readington’s carbon sequestering of CO2. The municipality, which is a silver-rated green community through Sustainable Jersey, is “constantly looking at ways to make us more sustainable,” says Mayor Heller. “We do a lot of tree planting in our community to try and restore the Raritan buffer zone to improve water quality in the community. The river that flows through our town supplies drinking water for about 1.8 million people. We are very aware of that.” Tree planting also addresses storm water runoff