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The Student View
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ It’s Showtime!
By SOPHIA BASALDUA 
Thursday, September 19, 2024
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramWhile one might become tired of the never-ending sequels in recent years, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is one for the millennium.Maintaining the strange and unusual nature of the first film was top priority from the beginning...
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Opinions
Gratitude for Letting Go Of the Pressure to Forgive
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, September 12, 2024
“Why do my friends and my priest urge me to forgive my mother?” asked my psychotherapy patient, J, with anguish. “They know my mother ignored me when my older brothers hurled shoes and called me terrible names. They know she refused to take me to the doctor or the emergency room when I was sick or h...
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Opinions
Editorial: Our Thanks to All Who Have Supported Us For 134 Years
Thursday, September 5, 2024
One hundred and thirty-four years ago, on September 5, 1890, Edwin Francis (the supervising principal of the Westfield schools) published the first edition of The Westfield Leader. Opened in competition with the Pearsallowned Union County Standard, The Leader has now long outlived not only all of it...
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Opinions
Gratitude For Forest Bathing Under Tree Canopies
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, August 29, 2024
My friend Ann is a retired infectious disease specialist who spent most of her career treating AIDS patients at a Veterans Hospital. Ann’s career began almost a decade before the antiretroviral drug AZT was developed to treat the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in AIDS patients. And so she did he...
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IN SESSION
Opinions
IN SESSION
By Carol Pedro, Exec. Dir. 
Thursday, August 15, 2024
As summer winds down, vacations have ended, and we enter the final hot days of the season. Get ready for change. Many people find the summers to be a reprieve and a chance to relax, have fun. We can put our responsibilities of the daily grind on hold.We all know, soon school will begin for the kids....
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Opinions
Editorial: It’s Time to Set Some Rules For E-Scooters to Keep Everyone Safe
Thursday, August 15, 2024
A few weeks ago, one of our staff members was sitting outside at a sidewalk café in Westfield, watching nervously as a child on an electric scooter darted in and out of rush-hour traffic. The kid, a boy of about 9 or 10, seemed utterly unconcerned about the drivers blowing their car horns at him as ...
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Opinions
Gratitude for the Myth of Closure: ‘Aren’t You Over it Yet?’
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, August 15, 2024
“Why aren’t you over it?” asked my patient’s best friend. “It’s been a year since you discovered your husband’s affair with his personal trainer. You separated and filed for divorce. Move on!”Questions or comments conveying expectations for closure after one year or so are commonplace. When grieving...
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Opinions
Gratitude for Getting to Know People Outside of Our Cultural Circle
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, August 1, 2024
“What are burek and cevapcici?” I asked my Croatian friend when he described the menu at his favorite Bosnian/Croatian restaurant.Cevapcici is a homemade grilled sausage made of ground pork, beef, lamb, onion, garlic, and spices including cayenne and paprika. Burek, he explained, is a phyllo dough s...
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Opinions
Gratitude for Heightened Awareness about Mental Health and Decreased Stigma
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, July 18, 2024
“Can I come in through the back door?” or “Please schedule my appointments so I don’t run into anyone I know.” These requests were routine in the early part of my forty-year private practice as a clinical psychologist. Teachers didn’t want to encounter their students or students’ parents. Doctors wa...
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Leading the way to living greener
Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Westfield
Leading the way to living greener
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Green Team Leading the way to living greener‘Skip the Stuff’ Ordinance Aims to Reduce Plastic Take-Out TrashA simple, effective solution to that drawer, the one full of unneeded condiment packets, chopsticks, stirrers, bundled packages and a LOT of plastic utensils, is now in effect in Westfield.Oft...
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Advocates Lose Appeal of OWP Lawsuit
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Advocates Lose Appeal of OWP Lawsuit
By LAUREN S. BARR 
Friday, June 27, 2025
WESTFIELD — The New Jersey Appellate Court upheld the Lower Court’s ruling dismissing The Westfield Advocates for Responsible Development’s (WARD) law...
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E-Bikes Banned from Park Trails and Paths in Westfield
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E-Bikes Banned from Park Trails and Paths in Westfield
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Thursday, June 26, 2025
WESTFIELD — Visitors to town parks will now have to park their electric bicycles and scooters after the town council during its Tuesday meeting passed...
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JCC of Central New Jersey Names New Bd. of Directors
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JCC of Central New Jersey Names New Bd. of Directors
Thursday, June 26, 2025
SCOTCH PLAINS — The JCC of Central New Jersey has announced its new board of directors for the 2025-2026 year. At the JCC’s annual meeting June 9, Lau...
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Towns to Celebrate Independence Day
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Towns to Celebrate Independence Day
Thursday, June 26, 2025
AREA — Starting this weekend, multiple area communities will present Independence Day celebrations offering an array of activities and capped off by g...
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Raiders Won UCT, Sectional In Boys Volleyball, Finish 27-5
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Raiders Won UCT, Sectional In Boys Volleyball, Finish 27-5
By DAVID B. CORBIN 
Thursday, July 3, 2025
Competition may have been stiffer but the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys volleyball team still managed to assert its dominance in Union County...
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