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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Climate Change Mitigation v. Adaptation and Resilience
By TIM VAN EPP, PP, FAICP, Former Co-Chair of Westfield Green Team 
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Within the climate action planning space, there are mitigation actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and adaptation and resilience actions to prepare for and respond to the unavoidable reality of climate change impacts that will persist and accelerate into the foreseeable future. Thus, resilie...
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Rejecting Extremism: Protecting Garwood’s Community and Future
Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Letters to the Editor
Rejecting Extremism: Protecting Garwood’s Community and Future
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Through two campaigns and the “Walking Garwood” initiative, I’ve had the privilege of speaking with many of you — neighbors, friends, and fellow residents — who share a deep concern about the tone of civic discourse in our community. Garwood has always been a town where people come together, where v...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
The Student View
The Apathy Toward Kanye West’s Antisemitism Is Alarming
By LIBBY VERGA 
Thursday, February 20, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism ProgramWhere is the outcry? Where are the people denouncing his behavior? Why don’t his colleagues speak up? These are all the questions that circulate my mind as I think about Kanye West’s recent actions.On Monday morning, February 10, I was...
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Letters to the Editor, Opinions
Gratitude for Unexpected Friendships: The Farmer, The Doctor, and The Red Tractor
By PATRICIA STECKLER, Ph.D. 
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Soon after my dear friend Ellen, from Duluth, Minnesota, teased me about my ignorance of tractors and farm equipment, I met with my primary care physician for a check-up. He loves to share his favorite childhood memories, and after listening to my heart and lungs, he paused and said, “I want to tell...
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The Student View
From Remembrance to Silence:
By ZOE URBANO 
Thursday, February 13, 2025
A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program
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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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CRANFORD -- The Cranford Theater was successfully evacuated on Wednesday night after a partial ceiling collapse that garnered widespread attention fro...
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WESTFIELD – The popular Tour of Notable Homes produced each year by the Friends of NJ Festival Orchestra will be held on Saturday, May 10th between 10...
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WESTFIELD — The Westfield Board of Education spent nearly two hours in executive session during Tuesday’s meeting discussing issues related to Harassm...
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