SCOTCH PLAINS — The township council expects to introduce the 2025 municipal budget next month and then adopt it at its Tuesday, April 15 meeting, but Township Manager Alexander Mirabella says this year’s spending plan is “going to be a challenge.”At the council’s budget meeting on Monday evening, M...

CLARK —At the January 29 meeting of the Clark Mayor and Council, Resolution 25-53, which would commit to round four for the present need of 71 units and the prospective need of 166 for the township’s affordablehousing obligation, was approved.During public comment, resident Nancy Twaskas voiced her ...

AREA — Immigration, transparency and equitable access to education took center stage on Sunday when the six Democratic candidates vying to be New Jersey’s next governor met for their first scheduled debate at Rider University.Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Mayor Steve Fulop, Rep. Josh Gottheim...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Recreation Commission will be exploring options to renovate two of Gumbert Park’s baseball fields, which some users say become “unusable” after every rainstorm.On Monday, Noah Ament, president of the Westfield Baseball League, approached the commission with a series of phot...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Planning Board on Monday heard from two applicants seeking extensions. Mayor Shelley Brindle and board members Anastasia Harrison and Ann Freeman were absent from the meeting.Attorney Stephen Hehl represented his client, Bronx Realty, by providing the board with an update o...

SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD — The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education (BOE) faced a crowd of more than 100 people at its January 23 meeting to hear concerns related to the district’s reading specialist, Kathy O’Gara, a vocal advocate for Palestinian rights who has often shared her views both in publi...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The Union County Vocational-Technical Schools property will see some changes — both temporary and permanent — in the months ahead, with upgrades to the sports field next to Raritan Road and the placement of modular classrooms.At the planning board’s meeting on Monday, representatives...

GARWOOD — The Garwood mayor and council voted Thursday to approve a resolution that will commit the borough to meeting a fourth round of affordable-housing obligations as presented by the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA).According to the resolution (2541), the borough will accept the DCA’...

SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD – The second time was a charm on Tuesday as voters in Scotch Plains and Fanwood approved two referendum questions that will allow the board of education to purchase a school building in Fanwood, make safety upgrades to all school buildings and provide funding for the annual cos...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Board of Education met Tuesday to hear the results of its 2024-2025 school year financial audit, and to discuss its next steps in attempting to pass the upcoming bond referendum in April. Scott Clelland of O’Connor & Davies Accountants, who performed the audit and recommend...