SCOTCH PLAINS — The small clapboard house next to the Alan Augustine Village Green and across from the Stage House Inn has been there since the 1760s. Inside are four small, low-ceilinged rooms featuring colonial and early-19th-century furnishings, including tables, chairs, an old-fashioned oven, pe...

WESTFIELD — Tuesday night’s Westfield Board of Education meeting, while calmer than some recent meetings, covered a broad range of hot-button topics, from new state curriculum for sex ed, to new mask-optional policies and racial issues. In regards to the Governor’s lifting of the mask mandate on Mon...

WESTFIELD — Thanks to the efforts of one young Westfield resident, a traffic circle on Route 28 will officially be renamed in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The governing body unanimously voted to approve the name change during its first regular in-person meeting of the year, held Tuesday at t...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Facing a lack of available haulers, the township intends to explore new ways for residents to dispose of bulky household waste that, for many years, was collected every June. Township manager Al Mirabella told the township council at its meeting on Tuesday that the hauler that has co...

GARWOOD – The Garwood Council met on February 10 at Borough Hall for their biweekly meeting. During the meeting, a project manager for the future Department of Public Works (DPW) building and Police Chief James Wright gave presentations to the Council on their specific jobs. The first presentation o...

MOUNTAINSIDE — The Mountainside Board of Education met briefly on Tuesday to discuss the upcoming changes to the district’s mask policy. Governor Phil Murphy announced earlier this month that the state mask mandate would expire on Monday, March 7 due to a steady decline in Covid-19 transmission rate...

CRANFORD — The Cranford Township Committee met last week to hear from department heads and establish a baseline for this year’s upcoming financial discussions at its annual capital budget hearing, held Thursday in the town hall. Big ticket items on this year’s list of requests include roadwork and i...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A South Avenue smoke shop that was among four locations in northern New Jersey that were raided last Friday for illegally selling marijuana and related products remained open for business this week. Along with outlets in Englewood, Butler and Randolph, the Dirty Jerzy Supplies store ...

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...