GARWOOD — During Thursday night’s meeting of the Garwood mayor and council, Megan Avallone, a health officer with the Westfield Regional Health Department, addressed concerns about a vegetation-control program that has recently been introduced for Garwood Brook. The program, Ms. Avallone said, also ...

SCOTCH PLAINS —A fundraiser will take place in three weeks to mark Lafayette Day and the bicentennial of the farewell tour of Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman and military officer who joined the Continental Army and commanded troops during the Revolutionary War — and who also had a connecti...

WESTFIELD — Visitors to the North Avenue train station parking lot will likely have noticed that renovations to the historic stationhouse have almost been completed. The building, which will soon play host to a long-awaited Mexican eatery and cocktail bar, has undergone extensive changes over the co...

CRANFORD – The township has negotiated a settlement with Hartz Mountain regarding the management of the 750 Walnut Avenue construction site following more than two years of litigation. Michael Ashe, the township committee’s outside counsel, presented the terms of the settlement at the Tuesday regula...

AREA — As municipalities across New Jersey scramble to meet their affordable- housing obligations, new construction projects are cropping up in nearly every community at a record setting pace. Over the course of the next several years, local communities like Westfield, Garwood, Cranford and Clark ca...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Regional Health Department has drawn a hard line in the sand when it comes to underage tobacco sales. So far, health officials say, local efforts to keep kids away from age-restricted products has been paying off.Westfield’s Tobacco Age of Sale Enforcement (TASE) program is...

AREA — As hurricanes and summer storms continue to pelt the East Coast with heavy rains and gusty winds, flood-prone communities like Cranford are working to stay ahead of weather in order to prevent damage to private property and mitigate problems before they occur.“This has been a rough summer,” C...

WESTFIELD — Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the Westfield mayor and council saw the introduction of four special capital bond ordinances which, if approved, would allow the town to purchase a new fire truck, replace the filtration system at the Memorial Pool, acquire property on South Avenue and ...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A construction worker was killed in Scotch Plains on Monday afternoon after being struck in the head by the bucket of a backhoe truck.“The Scotch Plains Police, Scotch Plains Fire Department and medical personnel arrived on scene and located a severely injured victim with head trauma...

A two-car motor vehicle was reported at approximately 12:45 p.m. on Monday, August 12. Multiple first responders - including the Westfield Police Department and Westfield Fire Department - responded to the scene.  North Avenue was closed in both directions as fire officials and police attempted to a...