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SP Rec Commission Urged to Expand Field Usage

By FRED T. ROSSI

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

SCOTCH PLAINS – The Recreation Commission this week discussed potential ways to expand the usage of some of the sports fields in town—specifically at Memorial Field and Farley Avenue Park—to accommodate the growing number of young people playing baseball, softball and soccer. At its monthly meeting, held on Monday at Memorial Field, several representatives from local sports leagues spoke about the...

News, Sports

Mountainside District Team Secures Championship

By SERENA BROWN

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

MOUNTAINSIDE — The Mountainside Council acknowledged the accomplishments of a district little league team on Tuesday, congratulating the second- and t...

Community, News

Summit Area Old Guard To Host Guest Speaker

Thursday, September 11, 2025

AREA – On Tuesday, September 16, at 9:30 a.m., The Summit Area Old Guard will welcome our member James T. Clemens, PhD, physicist and former AT&T empl...

News

NJFO Opens Season in Westfield With The Gypsy Spirit

Thursday, September 11, 2025

WESTFIELD — The New Jersey Festival Orchestra (NJFO), led by Music Director David Wroe, opens its 2025–26 season with The Gypsy Spirit, a dazzling cel...

Volleyball Blue Devils Outlast GL Highlanders, 26-24, 25-22

Sports

GASPARD 10 KILLS; DENGLER 14 ASSTS, 11 SERVICES

Volleyball Blue Devils Outlast GL Highlanders, 26-24, 25-22

By DAVID B. CORBIN

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Stiff competition was expected by the Westfield High School volleyball Blue Devil girls when they hosted the Governor Livingston Highlanders in their ...

Iggies Jolt St. Sebastian, 12-6, For St. Bart’s Softball Crown

Sports

McGUINNESS ICES SEBS; GANG 5 HITS, 1ST 7 INNINGS

Iggies Jolt St. Sebastian, 12-6, For St. Bart’s Softball Crown

By DAVID B. CORBIN

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Running the table was definitely on the minds of both teams when St. Ignatius squared off with St. Sebastian for the 47thAnnual St. Bart’s Oldtimers M...

P-Burg Stateliners Shut Out Blue Devils in Home Opener

Sports

BLASI 2 LONG RECEPTIONS, NARCISO 51-YD RECEPTION

P-Burg Stateliners Shut Out Blue Devils in Home Opener

By DAVID B. CORBIN

Thursday, September 11, 2025

The game originally set for 1 p.m. was pushed back to noon due to impending inclement weather concerns.Battering ram style running that opened the doo...

Obituaries

Sylvia Kuntz

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Sylvia Ruth Kuntz died on September 4, 2025, at the age of 98 and four months. Sylvia was born on May 4, 1927 to Samuel and Anna (Schwartz) Fogelman. ...

Obituaries

Bob Van Arnum

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Former Westfield Resident, Bob Van Arnum, Passes Robert (“Bob”) Van Arnum, loving husband of Deborah (“Debbie”) Van Arnum and father of Bradford (“Bra...

Obituaries

Rosanne G. Potter

Thursday, September 11, 2025

Rosanne G. Potter Died at Home On Friday, August 29 Rosanne was born in Elizabeth, NJ, on October 4, 1941, the only child of Harry Giuditta, a banker,...

Community

ASK Program Returns This Fall To Support Seniors

Thursday, September 11, 2025

COUNTY —The Union County Board of County Commissioners invites seniors and caregivers to the upcoming Aging Services Kiosk (ASK) events in September t...

Community

Beth Israel Holding Free Service for Rosh Hashanah

Thursday, September 11, 2025

SCOTCH PLAINS — Congregation Beth Israel (CBI) in Scotch Plains will hold its annual family service on Erev Rosh Hashanah, Monday evening, September 2...

Community

Imagine and Fairview Offer Event for Grieving Families

Thursday, September 11, 2025

MOUNTAINSIDE — For the past few years, Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss has been proud to partner with Fairview Cemetery to offer a butterfly re...

Arts and Entertainment

Bull Durham Begins Rehearsals at Paper Mill

Thursday, September 11, 2025

MILLBURN – Paper Mill Playhouse (Mark S. Hoebee, Producing Artistic Director; Michael Stotts, Executive Director), recipient of the Regional Theatre T...

Arts and Entertainment

Roots of Resilience: Sisterhood On a Dying Planet in

By DEVON GOHDE

Thursday, September 11, 2025

UNION – Set in the not-so-distant future, Walden opens to find Stella (Allison Altman), a failed NASA astronaut, lives in a remote cabin with her fian...

Arts and Entertainment

Scotch Plains Siblings Write and Illustrate Sci-Fi Book

By KATIE MOEN

Thursday, September 4, 2025

SCOTCH PLAINS — For rising high school senior Vince Larbi, author of “The Time Runner Adventures: Origins”, the road to publication was a long and cha...

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