WESTFIELD — Many places shut down when the pandemic hit in March of 2020. The Westfield Memorial Library was no different. It shut its doors, hoping to reopen in a few weeks, but then found itself facing similar hardships and had to find new ways to serve the community, Interim Director Jennifer Sch...

SCOTCH PLAINS — Citing concerns about traffic congestion on and off the property, the zoning board of adjustment last week rejected, by a 6-to-1 vote, an application to add a drive-thru window at a Dunkin’ outlet on North Avenue. Plainfield Gas Realty LLC, which owns the gasoline station and Dunkin’...

WESTFIELD — Raymond A. Gonzalez, Ed.D., was named the new superintendent of Westfield Public Schools at the virtual Westfield Board of Education (BOE) meeting on Tuesday. Dr. Gonzalez will begin his new position effective Sunday, August 1, replacing Margaret Dolan, Ed.D., following her retirement th...

SCOTCH PLAINS — At last Thursday’s board of education meeting, Superintendent Joan Mast, Ed.D., thanked staff for their efforts to reopen the district’s five elementary schools for five full days on Monday, May 17. In an April 28 letter to the community, Dr. Mast wrote that the Covid-19 activity lev...

By MARTA ESQUÍROZ For The Leader/Times CRANFORD — Following a hearing Monday night, the zoning board of adjustment approved an application by Tesla Inc. to install 12 Tesla supercharging stations at 370 North Avenue East. Jesse Karp, deployment lead for supercharging in the northeast, explained that...

WESTFIELD — Raymond A. Gonzalez, Ed.D., was named the new superintendent of Westfield Public Schools at the virtual Westfield Board of Education (BOE) meeting on Tuesday. Dr. Gonzalez will begin his new position effective Sunday, August 1, replacing Margaret Dolan, Ed.D., following her retirement th...

SCOTCH PLAINS — At last Thursday’s board of education meeting, Superintendent Joan Mast, Ed.D., thanked staff for their efforts to reopen the district’s five elementary schools for five full days on Monday, May 17. In an April 28 letter to the community, Dr. Mast wrote that the Covid-19 activity lev...

By MARTA ESQUÍROZ For The Leader/Times CRANFORD — Following a hearing Monday night, the zoning board of adjustment approved an application by Tesla Inc. to install 12 Tesla supercharging stations at 370 North Avenue East. Jesse Karp, deployment lead for supercharging in the northeast, explained that...

By MARTA ESQUÍROZ For The Leader/Times WESTFIELD — The personal finance website WalletHub published its “2021 Best and Worst Small Cities to Start a Business,” in which Westfield came in last among 1,337 cities across the United States. The listing looked at cities with a population of between 25,00...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Mayor Joshua Losardo said earlier this month he is optimistic that plans for the first phase of downtown redevelopment will soon be ready to be unveiled to the public and then adopted by the township council in June. At the downtown redevelopment committee’s meeting on April 14, the ...