Establishing a starting quarterback got thrown off course from the start for the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School football team. Once senior starting quarterback Jacob Handy was injured in the opener against Monroe, the Raiders had to juggle their offensive tactics, stuck almost exclusively to a ru...

CRANFORD Monday, December 2, two Elizabeth men were charged with theft after the Cranford Police Department investigated a report of packages being stolen from a residential front porch on Sunday, December 1. At approximately 6 p.m., units were dispatched to the 50 block of Elizabeth Avenue on the r...

The Westfield Leader and Union County HAWK have long held that editorials and opinions do not belong on the front page with news articles and facts. Today, we are breaking that tradition for the first time since I bought the paper in 2020 to talk about a potentially detrimental move that could strip...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Despite the delays in starting actual construction, the Lidl supermarket chain “is committed to building in Scotch Plains,” Mayor Joshua Losardo said on Tuesday night. In response to a resident’s query at the township council’s meeting, the mayor said Lidl is working on several outst...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Democrats were victorious in Tuesday’s elections in Scotch Plains and Fanwood, with Mayor Joshua Losardo and Deputy Mayor Ellen Zimmerman easily winning second terms, while Fanwood incumbents Erin McElroy-Barker and Patricia Walsh faced no opposition in garnering new, three-y...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — Voters in Scotch Plains and Fanwood on Tuesday rejected a bond referendum which would have financed the purchase and expansion of a new school building in Fanwood that would have been used for elementary-school students. According to unofficial results early on Wednesday morn...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The planning board on Monday approved a report by its planner that found the former Amberg garden center property on Lamberts Mill Road meets the criteria to be deemed an Area in Need of Redevelopment. Harbor Consultants, the board’s planner, was authorized five months ago to conduct...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A Scotch Plains woman who has been charged with embezzling more than $350,000 from a Scotch Plains synagogue is facing up to 20 years in prison and could be subject to fines of up to $700,000. In 2010, Stacy Margaritondo, now 51, began working as a staff member at Congregation Beth I...

CLARK Tuesday, April 30, police took a report of a shoplifting incident that occurred at the Ulta Beauty store, located at 1255 Raritan Road. Two male suspects and one female suspect were seen concealing merchandise, valued at $14,727, and passing all points of sale. This incident is under investiga...

SCOTCH PLAINS — An intraparty feud has broken out between the local Republican chairman and the head of the Union County party. County Chairman Glenn Mortimer has denied party support to some county committee members from Scotch Plains, where GOP Chairman Joseph Sarno is backing another candidate — ...