WESTFIELD — Caring Contact, an award-winning primarily volunteerstaffed crisis hotline and listening community serving Central and Northern New Jersey, announced today that it has received a $500,000 grant from the Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation—the most significant gift in Caring Contact’s 50-...

WESTFIELD -- On Tuesday, June 9, the Westfield Rotary Club awarded 16 scholarships to Westfield students, totaling $158,000.Acommittee of club members chose the recipients based on their academic achievement, community service and financial need. Since 1967 the Rotary has awarded over $3.5 million d...

WESTFIELD – The Westfield Memorial Library, located at 550 East Broad Street, will continue celebrating America 250 during July with a film series about America, as well as other programs celebrating summer, history and exercise.To learn more about the film series, which continues on Tuesdays, July ...

WESTFIELD – The College Men’s Club of Westfield and the College Woman’s Club of Westfield jointly announce that the 2026 recipients of the awards honoring the male and female seniors earning the highestgrade point averages at Westfield High School (WHS) are Leo Goldman and Darby Hubner. The $500 awa...

WESTFIELD -- The Library’s Board of Trustees expressed their deep appreciation to Miryam Block, prior to their regular meeting on June 24, 2026. A senior librarian in the Technical Services department, Block will be retiring on July 1st, following 20 years of dedicated service to the residents of We...

Klinger Kueter still laughs about the day she ran for Mayor of Westfield. By then, she was already known around town as the piano teacher with the bustling home studio, the woman who managed a blended family of six children during the turbulence of the Vietnam War era, and the energetic community or...

Founded by longtime Westfield resident and college professor Audrey Fisch, More Than Bootstraps (MTB) is a partner of The Westfield Foundation and was created to address the unique challenges faced by first-generation, low-income students pursuing higher education. Recognizing that these barriers ar...

CRANFORD -- The Township of Cranford is pleased to announce the appointment of Michael La Place as the Director of Business & Economic Development. La Place brings experience in community planning, master planning, sustainability and historic preservation, as well as formerly serving as director of ...

WESTFIELD – The Westfield Community Band, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Connors, continues its 114th season with its Concert on July 9th at 7:30 p.m. in Mindowaskin Park.The band’s music program will feature music from the long-running Broadway hit, “Music Man”. The band will also perform “Carto...

TRENTON — Starting June 26, the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (NJMVC) will begin appointments for customers to obtain licenses and registrations to operate e-bikes, in accordance with a law (P.L.2025, c.285) enacted in January 2026.“We’ve worked hard to update our processes and resources to be...