WESTFIELD — Long-time Westfield resident Audrey Fisch, Ph.D., spoke to the Rotary Club of Westfield at its January 9 regular meeting about More Than Bootstraps (MTB), a 501c3 of which she is the founder and president and to which the Westfield Rotary Club Foundation has provided grant support for th...

WESTFIELD — Two local students are working to make life a bit easier for people with mobility challenges through a new app that rates accessibility options at restaurants, shops, businesses and community spaces throughout Westfield. “I came up with the idea to create something like this after watchi...

CRANFORD — Superintendent Scott Rubin, Ed.D., shared at Monday evening’s board of education meeting that he had received correspondence from the New Jersey assistant commissioner of education on Friday inviting Cranford to take part in the Promising Practices Project.According to Dr. Rubin, the New ...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The recreation commission on Monday was urged to reconsider its plans to install lights at the Brookside Park baseball field. Several residents involved in the successful referendum last November to reject funding for an artificialturf baseball field at the park attended the commissi...

GARWOOD — DuringThursday’s regular meeting of the governing body, Council President Vincent Kearney raised multiple concerns regarding the municipality’s public-safety radio system. He stated that known issues with the system — which the borough uses to communicate with first responders — have worse...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The police department this week welcomed two new officers, swore in its deputy chief and gave a sendoff to a retiring captain.At the governing body’s first regular meeting of the year on Tuesday, Mayor Joshua Losardo swore in two new officers, Olivia DiFulco and Kobe White, the son o...

CRANFORD — Cranford voters approved a $75-million bond referendum on Tuesday that the board of education will use to facilitate various capital improvements throughout the district. Unofficial vote tallies (the district is still waiting to certify its mail-in and provisional ballots) indicate that t...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A student who brought a handgun to Union Catholic High School on Monday afternoon has been arrested and charged with numerous offenses including Unlawful Possession of a Weapon and Possession of a Firearm in an Educational Institution.At approximately 10:45 a.m. on Monday, a member o...

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...