GARWOOD— Last week, the Garwood Planning Board voted to approve an application to build a car storage facility on South Avenue.Applicant Alaa El-Banna appealed to the planning board on Wednesday after learning that the address in question, 639-645 South Avenue (near the Westfield border), was not zo...

AREA — A regular meeting of the Union County Board of County Commissioners took a contentious turn last week when a resident attempted to call Commissioner Rebecca Williams to task for standing with her arms at her sides during the Pledge of Allegiance. Garwood resident Bruce Paterson, a vocal criti...

WESTFIELD – The Westfield Regional Health Department (WRHD) is urging pet owners to be vigilant following reports of bird flu (H5N1) in cats. The virus has recently been detected in several outdoor cats in Hunterdon County and over 100 domestic cats nationwide.Cats are susceptible to the H5N1 virus ...

MOUNTAINSIDE — At Tuesday night’s meeting, the council agreed to pass a resolution in support of a legislative push that would allow government entities to post legal notices on their own websites instead of printing them in a designated newspaper as they are currently required to do.Last year, NJ A...

CLARK — Last December, on one of the coldest nights of the year, a litter of puppies was found abandoned in a construction bucket on the side of the road at an intersection in Clark. The pups, who were only about a week old at the time that they were found, were freezing, covered in fleas and suffer...

FANWOOD —The Fanwood community is mourning the loss of a dedicated member of the borough’s police department, who passed away last week after an extended battle with Lymphoma.According to information provided by the Fanwood Police Department, Officer Carlos Gonzalez, Jr. died at the age of 35 on Mar...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The township council on Tuesday introduced a $34.6-million operating budget that will result in an increase this year of about $179 for the average assessed home.Calling the spending plan a “very, very good” budget, Township Manager Al Mirabella noted that municipal budgets had been ...

SCOTCH PLAINS — This year’s capital bond ordinance includes funding for a variety of activities, among them road improvements, the acquisition of computer technology, police and fire department purchases, park upgrades, new vehicles and improvements at the public works facility. The $5.386-million b...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The planning board’s agenda for its meeting on Monday evening consisted of memorializing its approval last month of a minor subdivision application on Westfield Avenue. Beyond that, the board’s master plan subcommittee will soon get to work on updating the township’s master plan, whi...

WESTFIELD — An ordinance that would have removed most of Westfield’s last remaining solarpanel restrictions was returned to the Code Review and Town Property Committee on Tuesday following a public hearing and several weeks of discussion between council members, the planning board and residents.“It ...