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Zoning Board Addresses Undersized Lot Challenges
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Zoning Board Addresses Undersized Lot Challenges
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
WESTFIELD — Two properties in the Greater Business 3 Zone continued to trouble the Westfield Zoning Board of Adjustment Monday, as the board debated the feasibility of building on two undersized, irregularly-shaped lots. The properties on Elmer Street South and New Street are owned by two separate b...
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Voters to Choose Three For BOE Seats Tuesday
By MADOLYN LAURINE 
Thursday, April 10, 2025
WESTFIELD — Residents have an opportunity to vote for three candidates for available seats on the Westfield Board of Education in the Tuesday, April 15 election. Board President Robert Benacchio and current board members Kristin Sonnek-Schmelz and Mary Wickens are each running for a second term. The...
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Westfield Grad Prepares to Coach Israeli Olympics Team
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Westfield Grad Prepares to Coach Israeli Olympics Team
By KATIE MOEN 
Thursday, August 8, 2024
WESTFIELD — A Westfield High School graduate who has dedicated her career to sportsmanship and athleticism is poised to make history as one of the first-ever coaches to bring a team of lacrosse players to the Olympics when the sport joins the lineup in the 2028 summer games. “We’re very excited to g...
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Explosion on Tudor Oval Destroys Uninhabited Home
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Tudor Oval residents were rattled Monday night by an explosion of unknown origin that left a uninhabited residential home in ruins
Explosion on Tudor Oval Destroys Uninhabited Home
By KATIE MOEN 
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
WESTFIELD — Tudor Oval residents were rattled Monday night by an explosion of unknown origin that left a uninhabited residential home in ruins. The explosion, which resulted in a three-alarm fire, was reported at approximately 10:16 p.m. “The first Westfield Fire Department unit arrived on scene at ...
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Sheriff’s Officer Recognized For Heroic Actions
By KATIE MOEN 
Thursday, June 13, 2024
COUNTY — A Union County Sheriff’s Officer is being lauded for his assistance in saving the lives of eight children and two adults who narrowly escaped a school-bus explosion last month. On Wednesday, the Union County Board of County Commissioners presented Sergeant Jorge Vazquez, of Sayreville, with...
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Clark Resident Concerned About Volume at Bartell
By DEVON GOHDE 
Thursday, May 9, 2024
CLARK — During Monday night’s workshop meeting, Janice Patrichie, a resident of Gertrude Street, addressed the Clark Township Council with concerns about traffic on her street caused by the amount of soccer games at Bartell Field. Ms. Patrichie She stressed that this was not the first time she had b...
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Westfield HPC Looks Back On Growth, Development
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Westfield HPC Looks Back On Growth, Development
By KATIE MOEN 
Thursday, April 25, 2024
WESTFIELD — Westfield, whose catalog of historic homes spans more than two centuries worth of growth and expansion, has always been something of an architectural chameleon. A walk through town yields everything from Revolutionary War-era farmsteads, generational Dutch Colonials and stately manor hom...
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Cranford BOE Presents Construction Timeline
By JENNIFER RUBINO 
Thursday, March 28, 2024
CRAFORD — Now that the district’s referendum vote has passed, the Cranford Board of Education (BOE) can start to lay out conceptual plans for the numerous changes that will be occurring across multiple schools over the course of the next several years.Representatives from LAN Associates, an engineer...
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Three Clark Police Officers File Suit To Keep Positions
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Three Clark Police Officers File Suit To Keep Positions
By KATIE MOEN 
Thursday, March 14, 2024
CLARK — Three members of the Clark Township Police Department who found themselves at the center of a multi-year internal affairs investigation after being accused of misconduct have filed suit in Union County Superior Court in an attempt to keep their jobs. Last week, Chief Pedro Matos, Sergeant Jo...
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Garwood Council Members Are Sworn Into Office
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Garwood Council Members Are Sworn Into Office
By DEVON GOHDE 
Thursday, January 4, 2024
GARWOOD — During Tuesday night's re-organization meeting, Councilwoman Karina Boto and Councilman Sean Foley were sworn in as members of the Garwood Borough Council. Councilman Vincent Kearney, along with being sworn in, also was elected to serve as the new council president with a majority of yes v...
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Fanwood Woman Killed In House Fire
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Fanwood Woman Killed In House Fire
By KATIE MOEN 
Friday, July 25, 2025
FANWOOD -- A Fanwood woman tragically lost her life early Friday morning after a fire broke out her in her Kempshall Terrace home. A neighbor who atte...
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SP Advances Plans For New First Responders Headquarters
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SP Advances Plans For New First Responders Headquarters
By FRED T. ROSSI 
Thursday, July 24, 2025
SCOTCH PLAINS — The planning board on Monday gave its backing to a study finding that a piece of property on Plainfield Avenue should be designated as...
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Fanwood Council Explains Sewer Utility Fees
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Fanwood Council Explains Sewer Utility Fees
By FRED T. ROSSI 
Thursday, July 24, 2025
FANWOOD – Several residents peppered the borough council with questions about the sewer utility fee, asking specifically why homeowners were paying fo...
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Fairfield U. Recognizes 26 On Spring ’25 Dean’s List
Thursday, July 24, 2025
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — Twenty-six local residents have received Dean’s List Honors for the Spring 2025 semester at Fairfield University. In order to be pl...
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Defending U.S. Under the Sea: A Westfield Native’s Journey
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Defending U.S. Under the Sea: A Westfield Native’s Journey
Thursday, July 24, 2025
AREA — Lt. James Reynolds, a native of Westfield, serves the U.S. Navy assigned to the USS Scranton, home-ported at Naval Base Point Loma in San Diego...
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