GARWOOD — During Thursday night’s meeting of the Garwood mayor and council, resident and poet Sheila Moreira was honored with a Community Spirit Award for her poem, “I Wish For All My Neighbors,” which she read at the Garwood Partnership for Arts and Culture Poetry Festival back in April. “Everybody...

FANWOOD — The borough council on Monday endorsed the latest round of affordable-housing obligations, but not before a group of residents expressed concerns about the recent spate of development projects that have been approved or are underway, specifically the apartment building on South Avenue.At a...

CRANFORD — The Cranford Township Committee signed, sealed and delivered its resolution on affordable housing Monday, meeting the state’s deadline on its final day. The township submitted its Housing Element and Fair Share Housing Plan to the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA), which is hold...

WESTFIELD — The New Jersey Appellate Court upheld the Lower Court’s ruling dismissing The Westfield Advocates for Responsible Development’s (WARD) lawsuit against the Town of Westfield and the developer for One Westfield Place. The Advocates, an ad-hoc citizens' group concerned with overdevelopment ...

WESTFIELD — Visitors to town parks will now have to park their electric bicycles and scooters after the town council during its Tuesday meeting passed an ordinance banning them from being ridden on pathways and trails. The new ordinance is in response to what Mayor Shelley Brindle described as incre...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The township council on Tuesday endorsed the latest round of affordable-housing obligations, which will be less than originally expected.At a special meeting on Tuesday morning — which clocked in at two minutes and 27 seconds, likely making it the shortest council meeting ever — the ...

AREA — With temperatures reaching 103 degrees — setting a record for June 24 and tying the record for the June record set in 2021, according to the National Weather Service — power failures also gripped the area.Separate transformer explosions and fires led to outages that swathed the Central Avenue...

AREA — Starting this weekend, multiple area communities will present Independence Day celebrations offering an array of activities and capped off by glittery firework displays.Scotch PlainsThe township will lead off local festivities this Saturday, June 28, at Shady Rest Country Club, 820 Jerusalem ...

CLARK — Monday evening’s meeting of the Clark Board of Education (BOE) was a night to celebrate the achievements of the recentArthur L. Johnson High School (ALJ) graduates as well as the members of the BOE themselves. ALJ Principal Tara Oliveira took to the podium to congratulate Valedictorian Krist...

COUNTY — More than two dozen immigration activists and advocates last week continued to criticize Union County’s plans to sell a vacant jail complex in Elizabeth, fearing it will be purchased by a for-profit prison company and converted into an immigrant detention center similar to a controversial f...