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An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure
By MELISSA B. ROGERS, Ph.D. 
Thursday, June 12, 2025
“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Did your parents say this? In any case, they probably taught you to look both ways before crossing a road, and uncountable other habits that prevent harm before real damage is done. As adults, we know accidents happen, and we safeguard children by t...
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Editorial: Who’s in Favor of Learning Cursive Writing?
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Students, beware! A move is afoot in Trenton to resurrect a practice that folks of a certain age remember all too well: cursive writing.Generation Xers and Baby Boomers, especially, likely remember learning cursive in school on paper specially printed with two parallel horizontal lines, with a dotte...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
A Thank You
By LIBBY VERGA 
Thursday, June 12, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Gratitude for Unexpected Friendships:
The Brave Bank Customer Who Saved a Man Pinned to Brink’s Truck
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, June 5, 2025
This series of gratitude columns features stories of unexpected friendships and how illuminating and elevating these connections can be. I wish to honor the humanity in every one of us, regardless of differences in class, race, gender, or politics.This week’s dramatic tale was contributed by Ann G, ...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
History Repeats: Jewish Diplomats Murdered in D.C. for Their Identity
By ZOE URBANO 
Thursday, June 5, 2025
In November of 1938 Germany, Kristallnacht which is considered the start of the Holocaust, while abrupt, was the result of years of escalating ‘resistance’ to Jews: street violence, vandalization of Jewish businesses, ostracizing the Jewish people from public spaces and stripping them of their right...
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Opinions
A Modest Proposal
By Josh Kuntz 
Thursday, June 5, 2025
A Modest Proposal For Addressing the Problem of Racist and Antisemitic Graffiti at our Public Schools The emails always begin the same way. 'Regretfully, we are writing to inform you...' about the latest discovery of a racial epithet or a swastika scrawled across a desk, chair or bathroom stall. Eac...
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Opinions
Beyond the Boys: Girls Sports Have More to Offer
By EMMA SULLIVAN 
Thursday, May 29, 2025
We have jumped the hurdle of getting girls involved in sports, but this is a marathon, not a sprint — we still have a long way to go. While women’s participation in sports may be normalized, in comparison to their male counterparts, it is far from being celebrated.Starting in 1972, Title IX required...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Gratitude for the Gift of Unexpected Friendships: The Firefighter and The Farmpreneur, Part II
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, May 22, 2025
In the last column, you met Karl, the D.C. firefighter, and Emma, the organic farmer. Karl grew up with conservative, evangelical parents. Emma was raised in a liberal family and is devoted to climate sustainability and locally sourced produce. It was unlikely Emma and Karl would ever meet, given th...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
Preventing Bad - The Lead (Pb) in the Water
By: Tessa Srebnik 
Thursday, May 22, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramLead has been a key issue recently, as lead was found in Westfield schools’ water fountains. Due to this issue, action must be taken to a higher degree than it has already. Schools and other public facilities should be checking for lea...
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Making Garwood Safer and More Sustainable
Thursday, May 22, 2025
As spring roles into summer Garwood is moving ahead with several infrastructure projects. that will make our Borough safer, more efficient and more sustainable. Paid for primarily through the use of several grants, we are proud to announce that Center Street will soon be seeing new bicycle lanes fro...
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WHS Grads Return to Renovate Staff Lounge
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WHS Grads Return to Renovate Staff Lounge
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Thursday, June 12, 2025
WESTFIELD — Summer is almost here and construction has yet to begin on major projects slated for Westfield schools, but staff at Westfield High School...
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Community
Milestone Greta’s Run Raises Over $230K For Imagine
Thursday, June 12, 2025
WESTFIELD — More than 1,700 participants turned out May 18 in support of the largest-ever Greta’s Run 5K & Memory Walk, raising over $230,000 to suppo...
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Community
The Westfield Foundation Announces Q2 Grants
Thursday, June 12, 2025
WESTFIELD — The Westfield Foundation is proud to announce the distribution of over $100,000 in grants to 13 nonprofit organizations in the second quar...
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Westfield Says Pavers Without Permits to Be Removed
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Westfield Says Pavers Without Permits to Be Removed
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Thursday, June 12, 2025
WESTFIELD — The Westfield Board of Adjustment denied its first application of the year at its Monday meeting when Teddy Gencarelli, of 14 South Wickom...
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Sports
Blue Devils Top Woodbridge in Semi; Rock Ridge for Group 4 Section Title
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Prepared by DAVID B. CORBINThe third-seeded Westfield Blue Devils baseball team defeated the second-seeded Woodbridge Barrens, 8-4, in the semifinal r...
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