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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
Posting Isn’t Protesting; The Line
By HANNA SCLAR 
Thursday, June 26, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Cranford BOE Announces Community Survey for Superintendent Search
Cranford BOE Announces Community Survey for Superintendent Search
Thursday, June 26, 2025
As many of you are aware, Dr. Scott Rubin has announced his retirement in May and will be leaving the Cranford Public School District at the end of 2025 after nearly nine years of distinguished service. Under Dr. Rubin’s leadership, our Cougars climbed to new heights as he led our District with visi...
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Opinions
Gratitude for Kindness as Ethiopians Do
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Trader Joe’s was crazy crowded on an April Saturday morning when I went to stock up on groceries. Flowers nearly flew into grocery carts with shoppers dashing to grab the popular camellia plants, redolent with tropical perfume. It was the eve of Easter, the end of Passover — time for final Seders — ...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
Purged by Policy: How the
By EMILY BRACCO 
Thursday, June 19, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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Opinions
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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Opinions
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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Ice Rink Plans Face Environmental Opposition
Main, News
Ice Rink Plans Face Environmental Opposition
By KATIE MOEN 
Thursday, August 28, 2025
COUNTY — Environmentalists from across the area are pushing back against Union County’s plans to remove approximately 60 mature oak trees from Warinan...
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Lawsuit Challenging Westfield Cell Tower Is Dismissed
Main, News
Lawsuit Challenging Westfield Cell Tower Is Dismissed
By FRED T. ROSSI 
Thursday, August 21, 2025
SCOTH PLAINS/WESTFIELD – A Superior Court judge last week dismissed a lawsuit filed by several Scotch Plains residents seeking to block the installati...
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Participants Relate Experiences At Babe Ruth 14U World Series
Sports
Participants Relate Experiences At Babe Ruth 14U World Series
Prepared by DAVID B. CORBIN 
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Special thanks to Coach Marcus Mattielli who got all the quotes from the participants.Once in a lifetime opportunities rarely occur but the Westfield ...
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St. Justin 6th Jars St. Francis In Third Round Playoffs, 7-1
Sports
FAZIO GRAND SLAM; MARINELLO & SARNA RULE ‘D’
St. Justin 6th Jars St. Francis In Third Round Playoffs, 7-1
By DAVID B. CORBIN 
Thursday, August 28, 2025
Defensive acrobatics and very effective pitching performances kept both teams on edge when St. Francis hosted St. Justin in the third round of the St....
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St. Bart’s Oldtimers Men’s Softball Final Standings & Playoff Results:
Sports
St. Bart’s Oldtimers Men’s Softball Final Standings & Playoff Results:
Thursday, August 21, 2025
FINAL STANDINGS: TEAM W L T St. Ignatius 17 4 St. Anthony 13 8 St. George 10 9 2 St. Wolfgang 10 10 1 St. Vincent 8 11 2 St. Francis 8 13 St. Justin 8...
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