SCOTCH PLAINS-FANWOOD – The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education finalized plans on Thursday evening to proceed with a January 28, 2025, special election aimed at addressing high enrollment in the elementary schools and other pressing needs across the district. The new plan was guided by communi...

WESTFIELD — A Westfield High School (WHS) graduate was fatally struck during a hit-and-run motor vehicle accident while walking through a city in North Carolina last weekend.According to information provided by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, Ryan Zadrozny, 23, was hit by a Mercedes-Ben...

CRANFORD Monday, December 2, two Elizabeth men were charged with theft after the Cranford Police Department investigated a report of packages being stolen from a residential front porch on Sunday, December 1. At approximately 6 p.m., units were dispatched to the 50 block of Elizabeth Avenue on the r...

MOUNTAINSIDE — Two new ordinances were discussed at the November 26 Mountainside Borough Council meeting. The first ordinance is to appropriate $75,000, the total amount to fund the project to install a new generator for borough hall. The second ordinance is to fix the salary ranges for multiple mun...

WESTFIELD — Plans to convert an underutilized section ofTamaques Park into a new recreation area are moving ahead at a good pace, members of the Westfield Recreation Commission said Monday.“Our design firm did another walkthrough last Saturday,” Recreation Director Megan Schaffer said. “We’ll be sch...

MOUNTAINSIDE — The Mountainside Council discussed at Tuesday night’s work session meeting the issue of statewide home invasions, with the majority of recent incidents involving the theft of car keys. “There’s a large amount of home invasions where people are coming into homes at night, looking for c...

WESTFIELD — Last year, more than 900,000 New Jersey residents experienced some degree of food insecurity. According to information provided by the state, those numbers are becoming more alarming each year. “The numbers really spiked during the pandemic, and they have not retreated,” said Elizabeth M...

The Westfield Leader and Union County HAWK have long held that editorials and opinions do not belong on the front page with news articles and facts. Today, we are breaking that tradition for the first time since I bought the paper in 2020 to talk about a potentially detrimental move that could strip...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education met November 21 to discuss the month’s agenda and lay plans for next year. The board voted on a wide range of motions, among them a new high-school ceramics course and board policies projects. The board voted to approve two referen...

AREA — The results of several municipal elections that were too close to call on November 5 have now been officially certified by the Union County Clerk’s office. In Garwood, Sean Keagan Foley, a Democrat who was first elected to fill the remainder of an unexpired term on the borough council in 2023...