SCOTCH PLAINS – Township officials hailed the start of a significant redevelopment project on East Second Street, which will be the first such development in many years on that thoroughfare.Early on Tuesday evening, ground was officially broken for the project on a trio of adjoining properties on Ea...

CRANFORD — Five young men from Cranford found a missing resident at Yankee Stadium last month.Peter Fekete, a teenager who is neurodivergent, left his home on foot around 2 p.m. on the Sunday of July 7, Mayor Brian Andrews stated in a proclamation at the August 13 Cranford Township Committee meeting...

WESTFIELD — Over the course of the past 90 years, the Town Book Store of Westfield has weathered more than its fair share of challenges. But despite major recessions, the switch to digital media and even the pandemic shutdown, the shop has always persevered.And while the bookstore has had multiple o...

CRANFORD — Residents voiced their opinions on the potential addition of a private temporary ice rink in the Orange Avenue Pool parking lot at the township committee’s August 13 meeting.The pop-up rink would be in operation from October to mid-March. On weekdays the rink would be open from 3:30 p.m. ...

MOUNTAINSIDE — The Mountainside Board of Education approved the 2024-2025 Berkeley Heights Governor Livingston High School General Education Tuition Agreement Contract in the amount of $4,316,718 at Tuesday night’s meeting.The board also approved the Berkeley Heights Governor Livingston High School ...

GARWOOD — During Thursday night’s meeting of the Garwood mayor and council, Megan Avallone, a health officer with the Westfield Regional Health Department, addressed concerns about a vegetation-control program that has recently been introduced for Garwood Brook. The program, Ms. Avallone said, also ...

SCOTCH PLAINS —A fundraiser will take place in three weeks to mark Lafayette Day and the bicentennial of the farewell tour of Marquis de Lafayette, the French nobleman and military officer who joined the Continental Army and commanded troops during the Revolutionary War — and who also had a connecti...

WESTFIELD — Visitors to the North Avenue train station parking lot will likely have noticed that renovations to the historic stationhouse have almost been completed. The building, which will soon play host to a long-awaited Mexican eatery and cocktail bar, has undergone extensive changes over the co...

CRANFORD – The township has negotiated a settlement with Hartz Mountain regarding the management of the 750 Walnut Avenue construction site following more than two years of litigation. Michael Ashe, the township committee’s outside counsel, presented the terms of the settlement at the Tuesday regula...

AREA — As municipalities across New Jersey scramble to meet their affordable- housing obligations, new construction projects are cropping up in nearly every community at a record setting pace. Over the course of the next several years, local communities like Westfield, Garwood, Cranford and Clark ca...