AREA — As New Jersey municipalities prepare for a new round of affordable-housing obligations, one Bergen County mayor is working to overturn a long-standing rule that exempts certain urban and low-income communities from having to abide by the same standards as the rest of the state.Last month, Mon...

MOUNTAINSIDE — Dog owners will have to find another way to exercise their four-legged friends this fall while Union County works to renovate the amenities at the Echo Lake Dog Park.According to a notice posted on the county’s website, the dog park will be closed through January of next year.“It’s a ...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Board of Education (BOE) held its first regular meeting of the new school year on Tuesday to lay out some groundwork and finalize plans for the upcoming semester before students return to class next month. “We have been spending the majority of this summer preparing not onl...

WESTFIELD — An online survey about potential changes to Westfield’s trash-pickup ordinance that was posted to the town’s website earlier this month has led to some confusion among local residents who claim that the form is both unclear and poorly worded. The survey, drafted by the Westfield Green Te...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A Superior Court judge earlier this month dismissed a lawsuit filed in 2021 by a firm that was formerly one of the designated redevelopers for the downtown.In its suit against the mayor, the township council and the planning board, PS&S LLC, a Warren-based engineering firm, argued th...

FANWOOD — Voters in Fanwood and Scotch Plains will be heading to the polls in a few weeks to decide whether or not to approve a $115million bond referendum that will be used to purchase a vacant elementary school and finance upgrades throughout the local school district.But while district officials ...

CLARK — During Monday night’s regular meeting of the Clark Township Council, Councilman Brian P. Toal dedicated his council report to concerns about the current plan to demolish the Krowicki Gorny Funeral Home.“I got stopped in my tracks last week when I got told the address 211 Westfield Avenue,” s...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Township officials hailed the start of a significant redevelopment project on East Second Street, which will be the first such development in many years on that thoroughfare.Early on Tuesday evening, ground was officially broken for the project on a trio of adjoining properties on Ea...

CRANFORD — Five young men from Cranford found a missing resident at Yankee Stadium last month.Peter Fekete, a teenager who is neurodivergent, left his home on foot around 2 p.m. on the Sunday of July 7, Mayor Brian Andrews stated in a proclamation at the August 13 Cranford Township Committee meeting...

WESTFIELD — Over the course of the past 90 years, the Town Book Store of Westfield has weathered more than its fair share of challenges. But despite major recessions, the switch to digital media and even the pandemic shutdown, the shop has always persevered.And while the bookstore has had multiple o...