SCOTCH PLAINS — The Scotch Plains community is mourning the loss of 13-year-old Nico Lombardi, an eighth-grade student at Malcolm E. Nettingham Middle School who was killed after colliding with a landscaping truck while riding his e-bike across Mountain Avenue last week.“At moments like this, it is ...

SCOTCH PLAINS – The Planning Board last week adopted a study concluding that the senior housing complex on Lake Avenue meets the criteria for being declared a non-condemnation redevelopment area, part of the process of selling the 28-year-old facility to a nonprofit entity that will operate it.The T...

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...