CLARK — Clark Superintendent Ed Grande announced on Monday that masks will become a matter of personal choice for the district’s students, faculty and staff as of Monday, March 7. The announcement came during a regular meeting of the Clark Board of Education, held in-person at the high school. Clark...

WESTFIELD — A nearly four-hour Westfield Board of Education (BOE) meeting Tuesday night packed in discussions of school mask mandates, the results of the Start Strong Assessment from Fall 2021, and pizza. The board also came under fire for moving the executive session, which was on the agenda for th...

WESTFIELD — After months of public debate and discussion, the Westfield Planning Board voted Monday to conditionally approve an application to build a 162-unit residential complex at the current site of Williams Nursery. The decision to approve came late Monday night after several hours of testimony...

There is a factual error in this week’s editorial. The open public comment portion of the public Westfield Town Council meeting is, in fact, at the beginning of the meeting. In our comparison of municipal meeting agendas, we mistakenly reviewed the conference agenda, where open discussion takes plac...

GARWOOD – The Council of Garwood met on January 27 in Borough Hall. During the meeting, Mayor Sara Todisco gave a report on the dispatch consolidation meeting she attended, as well as gave an update on potential voters getting a say on the future of the Department of Public Works (DPW) building. May...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The township council last week introduced redevelopment plans for two large properties located at key entrances into the downtown business district. The two properties — at the former Snuffy’s Pantagis restaurant and banquet hall and at the former Jade Isle restaurant — have been uno...

There is a factual error in this week’s editorial. The open public comment portion of the public Westfield Town Council meeting is, in fact, at the beginning of the meeting. In our comparison of municipal meeting agendas, we mistakenly reviewed the conference agenda, where open discussion takes plac...

CRANFORD — For Robert Hurewitz, a long-time member of the Cranford Fire Department, the decision to dedicate his professional career to helping others was an easy one to make. “I have wanted to be a firefighter since I was a kid,” Robert, 33, of Hopatcong, said. “I was drawn to the camaraderie and t...

WESTFIELD — A vacant TD Bank on Westfield’s North Avenue will soon be serving a new purpose when it reopens as a House of Wine liquor store later this year. The project was unanimously approved during a special meeting of the Westfield Planning Board, held Wednesday via Zoom. The meeting, which also...

WESTFIELD — Throughout the course of its long and storied past, Westfield has often struggled to find its footing on the right side of history. Though the community as it stands today represents a diverse and largely tolerant population, recent acts of intolerance have shown that there is still work...