WESTFIELD — Next month, the state of New Jersey will unveil a new list of affordable-housing mandates which will force municipalities to shoulder increased obligations and host higher-density developments. In anticipation of the upcoming changes, the Westfield Town Council voted Tuesday to issue an ...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Superintendent Joan Mast, Ed.D., last week called the defeat of the school bond referendum “disappointing” and said board of education officials “will need time to listen to the community’s feedback” from the September 17 vote and “then consider feasible options.”She made her...

WESTFIELD — Westfield High School was placed on a three-hour lockdown Monday morning while police worked to debunk a threatening phone call that claimed that two people had been shot inside of the building. According to police reports, the call, which originated from an as-of yet- unidentified phone...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The planning board’s agenda for the remainder of the year looks to be light, meaning it is likely that there will be “short meetings over the next few months,” according to Board Attorney Robert Pansulla.With the major portions of the downtown redevelopment plan held up while state e...

COUNTY — A budget freeze that will prevent department heads and constitutional officers from hiring new employees has been implemented in Union County.According to a letter drafted by County Manager Edward Oatman on August 2, the measure, which also prohibits county officials from filling existing v...

WESTFIELD — A swastika was discovered carved into a chair at Tamaques Elementary School during Back-To-School Night last week.In a letter to parents, Superintendent Raymond González, Ed.D., announced that the district was unable to know how long the offending symbol had been present in the classroom...

WESTFIELD — James Hely, a longtime Westfield resident and a former member of the town council, was welcomed back to the dais on Tuesday after being appointed to fill the remainder of Councilwoman Dawn Mackey’s unexpired term. Ms. Mackey, who was first elected to represent Ward 4 in 2018, tendered he...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Board of Education (BOE) introduced a $225-million bond referendum proposal on Tuesday that, if approved by local voters in April, will allow the district to implement full-day kindergarten, upgrade its facilities and finance additions to six out of its 10 schools. “This fa...

FANWOOD – Borough and library officials on Monday evening were still basking in the afterglow of the grand opening of the new Fanwood Memorial Library last week. Speaking at the borough council’s meeting, Anne Minski, president of the library’s board of trustees, said she was “still smiling” two day...

GARWOOD — During council comments at the regular meeting of the Garwood mayor and council Thursday night, Councilman Sean Foley proposed that the governing body adopt an ordinance similar to Westfield’s Ordinance 2024-19.The ordinance prohibits the unsolicited delivery of printed material, such as u...