SCOTCH PLAINS – The Township Council last week approved four ordinances, including one updating its Building and Housing Ordinance and three others that will boost fees for various licenses and records. At its final business meeting of the year—save for a brief session next Tuesday morning to approv...

GARWOOD — At Thursday night’s regular meeting of the Garwood Mayor and Council, Councilman Marc Lazarow was honored with a proclamation from the Borough for his many years on the Garwood Mayor and Council.Mayor Jen Blumenstock thanked Councilman Lazarow for his work on the council and noted that she...

COUNTY — The members of the Union County Board of County Commissioners and some of the County’s highest paid employees will be seeing a salary increase next year in accordance with a new ordinance approved last week. The ordinance includes a two-percent raise for the members of the Commissioner Boar...

COUNTY — The Union County Board of County Commissioners bid a fond farewell to two of its longestserving members last week during the organization’s final meeting of the year. Commissioners Bette Jane Kowalski (better known throughout the county as BJ) and Sergio Granados both announced earlier this...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Town Council voted last week to enter into three separate settlement agreements in relation to its fourth round of affordable housing obligations.“It’s fitting that we close this chapter tonight at this last council meeting for my administration, as this was the most import...

WESTFIELD — The state School Ethics Commission has ruled that a former member of the Westfield Board of Education violated both state law and district policy by directing a taxpayer-funded attorney to launch a retaliatory investigation in pursuit of her own legal interests.In 2023, Westfield residen...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The property revaluation process is set to begin in earnest early in the new year, Township Manager Margaret Heisey said this week.At the township council’s business meeting on Tuesday, she said that she and Mayor Joshua Losardo had met with the township tax assessor and the chief fi...

CLARK – Following a recent report that the Township of Clark has spent over $2.6 million paying three police officers to sit home for the past five and a half years, residents took to the microphone while township officials say their hands are tied.The three suspended Clark Police Officers - Chief P...

WESTFIELD — Mayor Shelley Brindle and council members Michael Dardia, Linda Habgood, David Contract and Jim Hely stepped down from the dais for the final time on Tuesday to a standing ovation from friends, neighbors and family members.Mayor Brindle, Ms. Habgood, Mr. Dardia and Mr. Contract (who ran ...

CLARK — The Clark Planning Board granted its conditional approval last week for plans to build a fourstory, mixed-use residential complex on the site of a long-vacated grocery store that has been slated for redevelopment for almost seven years.The property, which has not been put to any real use sin...