TRENTON — The New Jersey Senate and Assembly both met on December 17 and passed a handful of end-of-the-year legislation, including advances to drug reform and economic revitalization. The legislative bodies met again on Monday to vote on the Economic Recovery Act of 2020, which Governor Phil Murphy...

COUNTY — The Union County Prosecutor’s Office and Acting Prosecutor Lyndsay Ruotolo have another lawsuit on their hands after Victim-Witness Unit employee Maria Reynolds-Jerussi filed a suit in mid-November alleging workplace discrimination based on Ms. Reynolds-Jerussi’s pregnancy as well as unlawf...

CRANFORD — During Monday’s Cranford Board of Education (BOE) meeting, Superintendent Scott Rubin, Ed.D., said the district “made the right decision” about closing schools for the two weeks following Thanksgiving as Covid-19 cases rose and acknowledged there were many questions and concerns regarding...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Redevelopment officials hailed last month’s confirmation by a judge that the township is in full compliance with the affordable-housing settlement agreement it reached with developers in early 2019. “This is a big deal,” Mayor Alexander Smith said of the final declaratory Judgment of...

COUNTY — The Union County Prosecutor’s Office and Acting Prosecutor Lyndsay Ruotolo have another lawsuit on their hands after Victim-Witness Unit employee Maria Reynolds-Jerussi filed a suit in mid-November alleging workplace discrimination based on Ms. Reynolds-Jerussi’s pregnancy as well as unlawf...

CRANFORD — During Monday’s Cranford Board of Education (BOE) meeting, Superintendent Scott Rubin, Ed.D., said the district “made the right decision” about closing schools for the two weeks following Thanksgiving as Covid-19 cases rose and acknowledged there were many questions and concerns regarding...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Redevelopment officials hailed last month’s confirmation by a judge that the township is in full compliance with the affordable-housing settlement agreement it reached with developers in early 2019. “This is a big deal,” Mayor Alexander Smith said of the final declaratory Judgment of...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield Town Council met for the last time in 2020 on Tuesday, at which time officials discussed a new recycling vendor, redevelopment plans and multiple end-of-the-year resolutions to prepare for 2021. Town Administrator Jim Gildea made a recommendation at the start of the meeting...

SCOTCH PLAINS – “It was a hell of a good run,” says Alexander Smith, summing up his four-year mayoral term that wraps at the end of the month. “I took the town and moved it in the right direction.” Speaking this week to The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times, the mayor, who was defeated for re-election las...

CRANFORD — After multiple hearings and much deliberation, the Cranford Board of Adjustment carried a motion on Monday to deny Application No. ZBA 19-020 made by NATC Donuts Inc. to open a Dunkin’ drive-thru location at 49 South Avenue West. During the meeting, board members were given the opportunit...