GARWOOD — Garwood’s next police chief will be announced at the Thursday, February 9 meeting of the governing body, but until then, the search for Chief James Wright’s replacement following his March 1 retirement is still underway. In January, the mayor and council interviewed three candidates applyi...

SCOTCH PLAINS — They are there five days a week, upstairs at the municipal building, sitting at a desk in a hallway piled with bankers’ boxes and papers and methodically feeding decades’ worth of official documents into a scanner that will bring all that paperwork into the modern era. It is part of ...

WESTFIELD — One Westfield Place came one step closer to fruition on Tuesday when, after several hours of public testimony, the governing body voted to introduce the redevelopment plan for official adoption. The measure passed with a vote of 6 to 1, with Mayor Shelley Brindle and Council members Lind...

WESTFIELD — As the Westfield Board of Education prepares for its upcoming election in April, representatives from across the district are working to solidify a new strategic plan that will help to guide students, parents, faculty and staff through the next five years. The process began last year wit...

SCOTCH PLAINS — Last week, during a regular meeting of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education, parents and community members took to the podium en masse to share their concerns surrounding the board’s decision to change aftercare providers. Right At School, a for-profit venture based in Illino...

SCOTCH PLAINS — Back in the 1990s, Ted Conley said an uncle convinced him to consider a career in law enforcement — and that career winds down at the end of this month with his retirement from the township police department after 25 years of service, the last six-and a half years as police chief. Sp...

WESTFIELD — The Downtown Westfield Corporation (DWC) kicked off the new year on Wednesday by welcoming its new director to her first official meeting and appointing Lillian Pien, co-owner of Akai Lounge, as its new board chair. Ms. Pien, whose Japanese-style restaurant celebrated a grand re-opening ...

WESTFIELD — After months of discussion and debate, Westfield residents got their first looks at some of the proposed design concepts surrounding the One Westfield Place (OWP) redevelopment project on Thursday during a Facebook Live event hosted by the town. Mayor Shelley Brindle said Thursday that t...

CLARK — Clark residents with something to say at a public meeting will now have five minutes to do so instead of 10, thanks to a new ordinance adopted Tuesday during a regular meeting of the mayor and council. Resident Michael Shulman, who ran for a seat on the council back in November, said there d...

GARWOOD — Patrolman Brian Contreras was officially sworn into the Garwood Police Department at the borough council meeting on January 12. Mayor Jen Blumenstock administered the oath of office for Officer Contreras, who worked as a campus security officer at Fairleigh Dickinson University since Febru...