Westfield: (video Property Taxes)
 Bus. Owners Protest Parking Fines
Top Teacher Honored; Kids Seek to Save Staffer
 Fire Incinerates Truck At Construction Site
 Homer Hall Remembered
New WHS Principal Renwick Values Academia
 Board Debates Fate Of New Xocolatz Location
Scotch Plains/Fanwood:
 SP Council Agrees On 6.25% Mun. Tax Hike
 Malool Hopeful Of SID Enactment By Summer
 FW Eyes Fuel Costs, Possible Tower Revenue
 SP Board Denies Grand St. Garage Expansion
 Mahr States Intent to Permit Prohibited Uses
Cranford:
Deck Losing Money After First Yr. of Operation
Garwood:
 Field Project Delayed Over Wetlands Issue
Area:
Schering-Plough Host Tour of Research Institute
Freeholders Receive Report On Tourism
Safety Dir. Proposes $13.9-Mil. Fire Academy

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PARKING UP THE WRONG TREE...Business and property owners came en masse to the Westfield Town Council meeting, Tuesday, to implore the council to reconsider raising tickets for overtime parking meters from $20 to $32. Those in attendance spoke about three facets of the current parking situation - a lack of parking spaces, fines that are too high and enforcement that is too aggressive. At top left is current Finance Policy Committee Chairman Sal Caruana. At top right is Gregory Wyn-Williams, owner of Baron's Drug Store. For more photos, see goleader.com/photos. 

Editorial: Mother's Day Gestures of Love and Thanks Should Be Extended Throughout the Year...Each year in the United States we celebrate Mother's Day on the second Sunday in May, a day on which we pay tribute to those women who shape our lives in so many ways - as nurturer, teacher, friend, role model and confidante - and influence us perhaps more than anyone else in who we become as we mature.

Editorial: Common Sense Is a Great Instrument of Compassion...Why is Muhlenberg Hospital closing? The simple answer is that too few patients are paying their bills. For years, Muhlenberg has been providing health care to those that don't (and/or can't) pay. The state has been subsidizing the hospital in an attempt to cover the shortfall. The amount of non-paying customers has grown. Coupled with that, the state is now broke.

A CARDINAL GETTING BANGED OUT AT SECOND...Blue Devil shortstop Sarah Connery puts the tag on Cardinal Leslie Villacis after a fine throw from catcher Christine Feldbauer.

Sports: Raider, Devil Girls Place At UC Track & Field Relays; Blue Devil Boys Douse Coach, Win UC; Track Relay Crown; Blue Devils Finally Brush Off Clinging Cardinal Nine; Raider Softballers Rout East Side Girls; Blue Devil Heroux Explains How a Javelin Changed Him; Raiders Rip Dayton Bulldogs In UCT Baseball Opener; Cranford Cougar Boys Sting Blue Devil Laxers in OT; Softball Blue Devils Crumble 'House of Cardinals'  Photos

INTENSE...Approximately 900 citizens met at Plainfield High School Tuesday night to protest and let state legislators know how they feel about the closing of Muhlenberg Hospital.

Devil's Den: Good, Bad and Ugly: From '50s to Present

Leaders Must Learn To 'Lead from the Side'