SCOTCH PLAINS — The recreation commission on Monday was urged to reconsider its plans to install lights at the Brookside Park baseball field. Several residents involved in the successful referendum last November to reject funding for an artificialturf baseball field at the park attended the commissi...

GARWOOD — DuringThursday’s regular meeting of the governing body, Council President Vincent Kearney raised multiple concerns regarding the municipality’s public-safety radio system. He stated that known issues with the system — which the borough uses to communicate with first responders — have worse...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The police department this week welcomed two new officers, swore in its deputy chief and gave a sendoff to a retiring captain.At the governing body’s first regular meeting of the year on Tuesday, Mayor Joshua Losardo swore in two new officers, Olivia DiFulco and Kobe White, the son o...

CRANFORD — Cranford voters approved a $75-million bond referendum on Tuesday that the board of education will use to facilitate various capital improvements throughout the district. Unofficial vote tallies (the district is still waiting to certify its mail-in and provisional ballots) indicate that t...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A student who brought a handgun to Union Catholic High School on Monday afternoon has been arrested and charged with numerous offenses including Unlawful Possession of a Weapon and Possession of a Firearm in an Educational Institution.At approximately 10:45 a.m. on Monday, a member o...

CRANFORD — The Cranford Township Committee passed two ordinances at its meeting held on Tuesday, both of which were based on public-safety concerns that had been raised by residents. The meeting began with an update provided by Mayor Brian Andrews regarding the ongoing 750 Walnut construction. In De...

WESTFIELD — A 23-year-old man who was struck by a motor vehicle while crossing SouthAvenue on Thursday evening has been released from the hospital after being treated for a serious head injury.According to police reports, the unidentified pedestrian, initially believed to be a juvenile, was hit by a...

CLARK — During Tuesday night’s governing body meeting, former Councilman Bill Caruso addressed officials regarding issues he has been having with the current state of Clark’s mayor and council.During a designated public comment on Ordinance 24-01 to fix minimum and maximum salaries for nonunion work...

WESTFIELD — Over the course of the coming weeks, the town of Westfield will be adding 10 new license plate reading (LPR) cameras to its existing security infrastructure in order to help the local police department more effectively combat car thefts within the community and the surrounding region. “M...

By KATIE MOEN AREA — A New Jersey student has filed charges of discrimination against Rutgers University, citing social- media posts by Sahar Aziz, a professor of law and member of the Westfield Board of Education, as an example of anti-Semitic activity by the school’s faculty. “Over the last severa...