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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
X-O Kitty Season 2 Is it Worth the Watch?
By: Tessa Srebnik 
Thursday, February 6, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramXO, Kitty is a must-watch this year, especially in the new season. The entire show is drama-filled for anyone who loves romance. Almost all romance tropes were packed into one television show: enemies to lovers, fake relationships, for...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Editorial: Notifications to the Public Under Imminent Threat
The Westfield Leader and Union County HAWK 
Thursday, January 30, 2025
Cell-phone tower about to go up in the woods behind your house? Well good luck finding out about that. Should you check the town website? Maybe it’s county land? Or is the project under state regulations? If so, which agency? Or is that a private business notice? This scenario could become reality i...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Gratitude for The Gift of Unexpected Friendships
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, January 30, 2025
“What do you know about tractors,” teased Ellen, my Minnesota friend. She intuited that a story about farm equipment would seem as familiar to me as Martians landing on my suburban front lawn. Ellen lives in Duluth, a port city on Lake Superior near the Superior National Forest. “Duluth is Bob Dylan...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
Disconnected: The
By EMMA SULLIVAN 
Thursday, January 30, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Importance of Expanding Our Tree Canopy for Climate Change, Flood Prevention
By RON MARGULIS Chair of the Cranford Environmental Commission By JOHN ZEBROWSKI Chair of the Cranford Shade Tree Commission 
Thursday, January 23, 2025
As New Jersey continues to experience the growing impacts of climate change, our local communities are seeing an increasing number of challenges, including more frequent and intense storms, droughts and intensified flooding. One of the most effective, yet often underappreciated, strategies for mitig...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Longtime Resident Writes In Support of SPF Referendum
Thursday, January 23, 2025
My name is Gail Moser and I am writing to support the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education Referendum to be held on January 28. The board of and administration listened to the community and are presenting a revised, excellent solution to the district’s overcrowding, and other issues.My husband, ...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Reader Says Protest at Synagogue Reinforces Hamas’ Message
Thursday, January 23, 2025
According to your January 16th article on the disruptions at the Westfield Chabad synagogue, one of the protesters screamed at the presenter, an Israeli officer, “You are a genocidal murderer!” The bitter irony is that, by reinforcing Hamas‘ method of deliberately drawing fire to civilian areas, the...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
Can We Ever Actually
By JULIE SNYDER 
Thursday, January 23, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
Beyond the Ballot: How to Stay
By ALESSANDRA SCROFANI 
Thursday, January 16, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Editorial: Bonaccorso’s Resignation Does Not Bring Complex Story to a Close
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Last week, Sal Bonaccorso forfeited his right to hold public office and resigned from his position as the mayor of Clark. His departure from the dais marks an incomplete end to a story that has plagued the township for nearly five years, and there is still almost too much to unpack. Council Presiden...
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Scotch Plains Council OKs Ordinances, NJIT Flood Study
By FRED T. ROSSI 
Thursday, December 25, 2025
SCOTCH PLAINS – The Township Council last week approved four ordinances, including one updating its Building and Housing Ordinance and three others th...
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16 Prospect Closes Its Doors After 25 Year Run
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16 Prospect Closes Its Doors After 25 Year Run
By KATIE MOEN 
Thursday, January 8, 2026
WESTFIELD — A beloved Westfield eatery announced last week that it would be closing its doors after a decades-long run as a downtown staple. “Happy Ne...
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Frank E. Nolde
Obituaries
Frank E. Nolde
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Frank E. Nolde, Beloved Westfield History Teacher, Dies at 87 Frank E. Nolde, well-known Westfield history teacher, died of heart failure peacefully a...
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Obituaries
Alexander F. Smeaton, Jr.
Thursday, January 8, 2026
Alexander F. Smeaton, Jr., age 93, formerly of Westfield, passed away on Sunday, January 4, 2026. Born on January 10, 1932, in Spring Lake, New Jersey...
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Gov. Elect Sherrill Swears in Cranford Commissioners
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Gov. Elect Sherrill Swears in Cranford Commissioners
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Thursday, January 8, 2026
CRANFORD — Governor-Elect Mikie Sherrill visited Cranford Sunday to swear in Democrats Kathleen Miller Prunty and Dr. Terrance Curran to the Township ...
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