WESTFIELD — Plans to expand the parking lot and add new restrooms, storage and meeting spaces to the Houlihan Sid Fay athletic fields on Lamberts Mill road came one step closer to fruition on Tuesday when the Westfield Town Council voted to introduce a $2.3 million bond ordinance that, if approved, ...

COUNTY — Union County Commissioner Rebecca Williams recently came under fire for allegedly sharing a vague but controversial post on her personal social media page following the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.During a recent meeting of the Commissioner Board, held on September 18, several...

FANWOOD – A lawsuit has been filed that seeks to have the planning board’s approval of the South Avenue apartment building project overturned and annulled. In June, in the face of opposition from neighborhood residents, the planning board approved NB Home Improvements’ application to develop 383 Sou...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Voters in Fanwood and Scotch Plains will face a full ballot in November when they head to the polls to choose three members of the District’s Board of Education. Five candidates - incumbents Nancy Norris Bauer and Stephanie Suriani and newcomers Brad Herman, John Greenblatt a...

CRANFORD — Hearings for the proposed Wonder Foods, LLC operations expansion at 42 Jackson Drive entered its third month of testimony on Wednesday during the Cranford Planning Board’s most recent meeting. Board chair Molly Kellett and Vice Chair Juan Carlos Nordelo were absent from the proceedings, w...

STATE — New Jersey’s gubernatorial candidates squared off on Sunday evening during the season’s first televised debate since the June primary, clashing over everything from immigration to government spending and transparency.Democrat Rebecca Michelle “Mikie” Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot ...

WESTFIELD — Westfield is facing legal challenges from two separate development entities who claim that the town’s proposed approach to the most recent round of affordable housing obligations will unfairly preclude them from certain opportunities to build. In an official objection submitted to state ...

CRANFORD —Aregular meeting of the Cranford Township Committee took an unexpected turn when William Thilly, an independent candidate currently running for a seat on the Township Committee, attempted to start a dance party with several residents during the meeting’s allocated time for public comment.M...

FANWOOD — Councilwoman Erin McElroy-Barker decried some of the rhetoric directed at the local government by some residents in recent months, saying she is always open to “respectful discussions where we listen and we talk,” but that she is “tired of the rhetoric and the accusations that are made” ag...

SCOTCH PLAINS – The Township Council last week named Margaret Heisey as the ninth township manager—and the first woman to ever hold the position—in the five-plus decades since the Council-Manager form of government was adopted.She succeeds Al Mirabella, who retired earlier this month after 10 years ...