AREA – After a summer marked by long stretches of 90-degree days and a dearth of rainfall, the fall calendar in Scotch Plains, Fanwood, Garwood and Clark will be a busy one. Things are slowly to returning to normal after two years of pandemic-related cancellations and delays. The end of the summer s...

STATE – Domestic travelers who either do not have or do not want to carry a passport are coming up against a deadline to obtain the new federally-issued and allegedly more secure Real ID. Though the deadline to obtain the new ID has already been pushed back twice due to complications posed by the pa...

MOUNTAINSIDE — After more than two hours of discussion and debate, the Mountainside Board of Education (BOE) voted Tuesday to table its conversation about this year’s sex-ed curriculum until the next board meeting in September. The district will launch the new school year with the old curriculum sti...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Later this fall, if there is a book or some other item that is hard to track down, it will get a lot easier to find as the Scotch Plains and Fanwood libraries intend to join a consortium of more than 30 other libraries that will give residents access to all materials at all m...

SCOTCH PLAINS — During its meeting last week, the township council gave final approval to three ordinances, two of which restrict parking on two streets and a third that revises how public utilities must repair local roadways where they are working. The first ordinance prohibits parking on Far View ...

WESTFIELD — After a few tough years of vacancies and store closures, downtown Westfield is finding itself in the middle of a long-awaited resurgence. Although new retail outlets, creative studios and gallery spaces have already helped to bring the area back into focus, a sudden boom in interest from...

TRENTON — When New Jersey opted to redistrict its congressional maps earlier this year, political analysts were quick to label 7th District Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-Ringoes) as a sacrificial lamb for the Democrats. As the campaign season ramps up and the donations begin to pour in, however, the race f...

COUNTY — Clad head to toe in the protective gear that they have worn to work for the last two and a half years, nurses from the Cornerstone Behavioral Health Hospital in Berkeley Heights approached the Union County Board of County Commissioners on Thursday to lay out their arguments for a fair and a...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The township council on Tuesday gave its formal backing to applications by entities seeking to open cannabis businesses along Route 22. Two of the applicants — Nikita Brothers Inc. and Crossback LLC — are seeking licenses from the state Cannabis Regulatory Commission to open both a r...

WESTFIELD — In the long and frightening month that has passed since Anthony Labin, 12, took a line drive to the temple during a baseball game in Cooperstown, N.Y., the young ballplayer has endured countless hours of intensive, inpatient therapy and has even undergone surgery to release the pressure ...