WESTFIELD — For Séréna Chalon, a French exchange student currently enrolled at Westfield High School, the past six months have been full of firsts.Ms. Chalon, 16, of Grenoble, France, arrived in the United States in August of 2023 as part of this year’s Rotary International Youth Exchange Program.“I...

WESTFIELD — On January 16, at 2:17 p.m., the Westfield Fire Department responded to the report of a fire in a structure on the 700 block of South Avenue West. The first Westfield Fire Department units arrived on scene at 2:21 p.m., to find a 2.5-story, multifamily dwelling with smoke showing from th...

WESTFIELD – The Board Secretary of the Westfield Board of Education is accepting completed petitions for candidacy in the Tuesday, April 16 School Board Election.Petitions are due to Business Administrator/ Board Secretary Patricia Ramos by 4 p.m. on Monday, February 26. Candidates may email petitio...

CRANFORD — The Cranford Township Committee passed two ordinances at its meeting held on Tuesday, both of which were based on public-safety concerns that had been raised by residents. The meeting began with an update provided by Mayor Brian Andrews regarding the ongoing 750 Walnut construction. In De...

WESTFIELD — A 23-year-old man who was struck by a motor vehicle while crossing SouthAvenue on Thursday evening has been released from the hospital after being treated for a serious head injury.According to police reports, the unidentified pedestrian, initially believed to be a juvenile, was hit by a...

CLARK — During Tuesday night’s governing body meeting, former Councilman Bill Caruso addressed officials regarding issues he has been having with the current state of Clark’s mayor and council.During a designated public comment on Ordinance 24-01 to fix minimum and maximum salaries for nonunion work...

WESTFIELD — Over the course of the coming weeks, the town of Westfield will be adding 10 new license plate reading (LPR) cameras to its existing security infrastructure in order to help the local police department more effectively combat car thefts within the community and the surrounding region. “M...

By KATIE MOEN AREA — A New Jersey student has filed charges of discrimination against Rutgers University, citing social- media posts by Sahar Aziz, a professor of law and member of the Westfield Board of Education, as an example of anti-Semitic activity by the school’s faculty. “Over the last severa...

FANWOOD – With construction of the new library moving along, borough officials anticipate that it will be opened to the public for the summer.At the borough council’s first business meeting of the new year on Tuesday, Borough Engineer Antonios Panagopoulos said the new library is about 65 percent co...

AREA — Westfield resident Kimberly Palmieri-Mouded has been selected to serve as this year’s chair of the Union County Board of County Commissioners, alongside Vice Chair Lourdes Leon, a former educator and school administrator from Elizabeth. The two appointments, both of which were approved with u...