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Published: 5/31/2021 10:46:30 AM
The third phase of Wilton’s Riverwalk project – refurbishing the Stony Brook Trail – is nearly complete.
Funding through a grant from AARP, the trail, which was once a walking trail that has long since become overgrown, traveling from Monument Park to the Wilton House of Pizza, is being rebuilt with a permeable surface, and cleared to open new views of the river.
Since 2017, work on the Riverwalk has included renovating Monument Park, and creating a lighted, accessible walkway along the northern bank of the Stony Brook River, with a kiosk.
Jennifer Beck, chair of the town’s Economic Development Leadership Team, said the walk will be officially opened June 12.
Don’t tell the folks of Grover’s Mill that Martians don’t exist.
Grover’s Mill, a section of West Windsor, was ground zero for the fictional (we hope!) Martian attack dramatized by Orson Welles and his Mercury Theatre on a Mischief Night broadcast of Oct. 30, 1938.
Some thought a local water tower was a Martian spaceship. Alas, it was all just a radio show and a severe case of national hysteria.
Van Nest Park at 218 Cranbury Road has a short, 50 yards or so, walk with plaques commemorating the night, and a monument recognizing Grover’s Mill’s role in a very quirky chapter of American history.