Do you like tree-lined streets? I do, too! Trees are good for the environment and make our streets more walkable on hot days.You could help to make our town full of tree-lined streets at no cost to you! Westfield will plant one or two trees along the street in front of your property if you ask them ...

The death of local journalism has largely been a quiet affair. Over the course of the past several decades, hundreds if not thousands of smaller outlets like ours have been forced to close their doors for good amid increased costs, dwindling support, and, of course, the advent of the 24hour online n...

A collaboration with the Westfield High School Journalism Program

As the year has passed, the Westfield High School (WHS) administration has gotten stricter with the rules they are implementing. Certain new safety measures include mandatory lanyard-wearing and SmartPass, a digital hall pass system designed to manage student movement. The system allows teachers to ...

For as long as I can remember, senior prom has been depicted in conversations and teen movies as the “end-all-be-all” event of my high school experience. It’s supposedly this epic, memorable night where some hypothetical climax happens and all the conflict of the past four years magically gets resol...

I ride down the elevator in my building, preoccupied with the worries or woes de jour. I step into the lobby, where Mengu, the doorman, greets me with a big smile and asks how I am. I pause to hear how his daughter is enjoying her junior spring semester at the University of Southern California (USC)...

AREA – Each year, on the second Saturday in May, the National Association of Letter Carriers organizes the largest single-day food drive in the United States. This year, The Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive falls on May 9th, and your local letter carriers are calling on you to help make a difference for ...

Eight years ago Westfield erected a temporary ice rink at Gumbert Park, as time has gone by it has become anything but temporary. Some years ago as a Councilman in Garwood I raised questions about the advisability of allowing this temporary structure - which as we have seen has been put up each Fall...

In the Garwood council meeting of March 12, 2026, I must have been teleported to an upside-down Garwood world.This meeting agenda had a final vote for 4 overlay zoning ordinances to satisfy the affordable housing and luxury market rate residential mandates. Sadly, with such a major impact of change ...

I recently witnessed an incident in Westfield that strengthened my belief that CAKE—Compassion, Acceptance, Kindness, and Empathy— is not just an idea. It is a community tool that depends on everyday people being aware, prepared, and willing to respond when an opportunity to serve presents itself.Wh...