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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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Editorial: Federal Govt. Needs to Get ‘On Board’ With Fixing Transit Woes
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Why does it feel like as soon as NJ Transit announced a 15-percent rate hike, the trains literally came to a complete stop?Last week, riders were once again stranded all along the commuting corridor we call home — one of the busiest in the nation.NJ Transit is a mess. Trains rarely run on time, ther...
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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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Immigration Advocates Criticize ICE, Decry Plans to Sell Jail
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Immigration Advocates Criticize ICE, Decry Plans to Sell Jail
By FRED T. ROSSI 
Thursday, June 19, 2025
COUNTY — More than two dozen immigration activists and advocates last week continued to criticize Union County’s plans to sell a vacant jail complex i...
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Christopher F. Vogel
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Thursday, June 26, 2025
In Memory of Christopher Frederick Vogel It is with great sadness that we announce the unimaginable passing of Christopher Frederick Vogel, a loving h...
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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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Cranford Zoning Bd. Delays Two Project Hearings
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Cranford Zoning Bd. Delays Two Project Hearings
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Thursday, June 26, 2025
CRANFORD — Two applicants for major projects in Cranford presented early-stage plans to redevelop an existing rehabilitation facility and gas station,...
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