SCOTCH PLAINS – A bid by Rahway Road homeowners to keep a backyard gravel path for their young children to ride electric cars and bicycles was rejected by the zoning board of adjustment last week. In the early spring, Bobby Lashkari and Carolina Souza had installed the 475-foot long winding, circula...

COUNTY — A number of parks, playgrounds, community spaces and recreation centers throughout Union County will soon be getting some much-needed love thanks to this year’s Kids Recreation Trust Fund and Greening Union County grants, both of which secured the unanimous approval of the Union County Boar...

WESTFIELD — A regular meeting of the Westfield mayor and council took an unexpected, if not slightly contentious, turn on Tuesday when Mayor Shelley Brindle attempted to engage Councilman Mark LoGrippo in a public conversation about the potential financial impact of the town’s proposed downtown deve...

WESTFIELD —.Dozens of Westfield residents, some, lifelong members of the community and others as young as 10, stepped to the podium during Tuesday night’s regular meeting of the mayor and council to share their views, voice their support and air their concerns about the town’s long-standing proposal...

FANWOOD — The borough council on Monday grappled with the question of how much a local government should be involved in determining what types of businesses should operate in town. Andy Song, the owner of a South Avenue nail salon, spoke on behalf of several other nail salon owners at the council’s ...

CLARK — Superintendent Edward Grande outlined this year’s district goals and objectives during a brief meeting of the Clark Board of Education, which was held on Monday in the township’s council chambers. This year’s district goals can be broken into three objectives, Mr. Grande said: “to foster pos...

WESTFIELD — At the beginning of Monday evening’s Westfield Recreation Commission meeting, three students from Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School proposed a series of environmental projects for Brightwood Park. Ella Mauer, Bridget Priel and Reese Priel, who recently formed a wildlife-preservation club...

WESTFIELD — Though it will still be quite a while before shovels hit the dirt, HBC|Streetworks Development celebrated a major milestone in its One Westfield Place timeline on Tuesday when it welcomed the first guests to its new preview and information center on Elm Street. “Our goal with this space ...

GARWOOD — In addition to whatever changes may arise from the upcoming election in November, the Garwood Borough Council will soon need to appoint a new member to its ranks in order to fill a seat that was recently vacated by Republican Heather Loffredo. Councilwoman Loffredo, who was first elected t...

CRANFORD — Cranford’s traffic expert Maurice Rached fielded a number of questions pertaining to the 750 Walnut Avenue redevelopment project during a recent meeting of the planning board, held Wednesday. Mr. Rached took questions from residents that did not get to ask questions at the previous meetin...