WESTFIELD – Residents could see their taxes increase by as much as $745 this year in connection with rising healthcare, staffing and insurance costs across the local school district. On Tuesday, Superintendent Raymond González, Ed.D.,Business Administrator Patricia Ramos and Assistant Superintendent...

AREA — Both Westfield High School and Arthur L. Johnson High School in Clark were placed on lockdowns for what turned out to be separate unsubstantiated claims of weapons on school grounds.Police were called to ALJ at approximately 11 a.m. on Thursday, February 5th to investigate what school officia...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Zoning Board of Adjustment met Monday to approve four new applications for residential construction where homeowners sought to maximize their properties. Board members Michael Cohen, Jessica Giorgianni, Angela Knowles, Sasha Nisbet were absent from the meeting.Due to the nu...

SCOTCHPLAINS–Thegoodnews about this year’s Municipal budget is that operating expenditures for most township departments will be mostly unchanged from 2025 but, as Township Manager Margaret Heisey said last week, several expenses “beyond our control” will see increases.At last Thursday’s three-hour ...

SCOTCH PLAINS – David Lavery was sworn in as police chief on Tuesday evening and promised residents he would lead a department “that listens, a department that cares and a department that makes you proud every single day.”Twenty-one years after joining the department as a patrolman, Chief Lavery for...

CRANFORD – The Cranford Township Committee voted Tuesday to update its bylaws regarding public meetings and proper decorum following several months of dance parties and sing-a-longs that township officials say have become a disruption to the proceedings.The policy changes, adopted via resolution jus...

WESTFIELD — Town Administrator Jim Gildea led Westfield’s annual public budget forum last week to give residents better insight into the Town’s financial situation heading into a new budget season.Westfield collected $197,135,779 in taxes last year, Mr. Gildea said, noting that about 62 percent of t...

FANWOOD – Representatives from the Fanwood Environmental Commission explained some of their goals for 2026 after a busy 2025 that included celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Borough’s nature center.At Monday night’s Borough Council meeting, Leslie Krone-Speck listed a series of objectives for t...

COUNTY – The Union County Board of County Commissioners voted last week to fund further environmental remediation efforts in the marshy areas surrounding the Ash Brook Golf Course in hopes of restoring the property to a more natural state.“This has been an ongoing issue,” Commissioner James Baker sa...

WESTFIELD – Westfield came one step closer to realizing its plans to revitalize an underutilized section of Tamaques Park last month with the release of a public input survey that allowed residents to weigh in on their priorities for the space.In a public report now published on the Town’s website, ...