FANWOOD — Despite opposition from neighborhood residents, the planning board last month approved an application to develop property on South Avenue into a 16-unit apartment building. NB Home Improvements LLC will construct a three-story, triangularshaped building at 383 South Avenue, between SouthAv...

FANWOOD — Jason Benedict was appointed to the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education last month to fill the vacancy created when long-time board member Amy Winkler stepped down.The board announced the appointment at its final meeting of the school year, and it followed an interviewing process the ...

MOUNTAINSIDE — At Tuesday’s borough council conference session, the governing body deliberated a new contract and fees for police body cameras and regulations for house numbers.“For the mandatory body-worn cameras, 25 cameras for the course of 60 months would be $116,053.65 for the five-year term,” ...

GARWOOD — During Thursday night’s meeting of the Garwood mayor and council, resident and poet Sheila Moreira was honored with a Community Spirit Award for her poem, “I Wish For All My Neighbors,” which she read at the Garwood Partnership for Arts and Culture Poetry Festival back in April. “Everybody...

FANWOOD — The borough council on Monday endorsed the latest round of affordable-housing obligations, but not before a group of residents expressed concerns about the recent spate of development projects that have been approved or are underway, specifically the apartment building on South Avenue.At a...

CRANFORD — The Cranford Township Committee signed, sealed and delivered its resolution on affordable housing Monday, meeting the state’s deadline on its final day. The township submitted its Housing Element and Fair Share Housing Plan to the state Department of Community Affairs (DCA), which is hold...

WESTFIELD — The New Jersey Appellate Court upheld the Lower Court’s ruling dismissing The Westfield Advocates for Responsible Development’s (WARD) lawsuit against the Town of Westfield and the developer for One Westfield Place. The Advocates, an ad-hoc citizens' group concerned with overdevelopment ...

WESTFIELD — Visitors to town parks will now have to park their electric bicycles and scooters after the town council during its Tuesday meeting passed an ordinance banning them from being ridden on pathways and trails. The new ordinance is in response to what Mayor Shelley Brindle described as incre...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The township council on Tuesday endorsed the latest round of affordable-housing obligations, which will be less than originally expected.At a special meeting on Tuesday morning — which clocked in at two minutes and 27 seconds, likely making it the shortest council meeting ever — the ...

AREA — With temperatures reaching 103 degrees — setting a record for June 24 and tying the record for the June record set in 2021, according to the National Weather Service — power failures also gripped the area.Separate transformer explosions and fires led to outages that swathed the Central Avenue...