WESTFIELD — Representatives from the Westfield Public Schools system appeared before the town’s planning board on Monday to present a courtesy review of the district’s plans to expand and renovate numerous buildings throughout the district. Superintendent Raymond González, Ed.D., and Business Admini...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The planning board on Monday unanimously approved a lot consolidation sought by the Evangel Church, which wants to then expand its parking lot to accommodate its growing congregation.The Terrill Road house of worship owns the 6.8-acre lot where the church building and a 241-car parki...

FANWOOD — The borough council approved one shared-services agreement with Garwood and is set to approve another one later this month.At its penultimate meeting of the year on Monday evening, the council approved an agreement to share Municipal Court Administrator Catherine Frank with the Garwood cou...

WESTFIELD — Last year, more than 900,000 New Jersey residents experienced some degree of food insecurity. According to information provided by the state, those numbers are becoming more alarming each year. “The numbers really spiked during the pandemic, and they have not retreated,” said Elizabeth M...

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/FANWOOD — The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education met November 21 to discuss the month’s agenda and lay plans for next year. The board voted on a wide range of motions, among them a new high-school ceramics course and board policies projects. The board voted to approve two referen...

AREA — The results of several municipal elections that were too close to call on November 5 have now been officially certified by the Union County Clerk’s office. In Garwood, Sean Keagan Foley, a Democrat who was first elected to fill the remainder of an unexpired term on the borough council in 2023...

CRANFORD — The Cranford Board of Education returned to the topic of teacher retention during its regular meeting on Monday as part of an ongoing conversation about budgetary constraints. This issue was discussed at prior meetings, but this meeting drew a larger turnout from the general public concer...

CRANFORD — A member of the Cranford Police Department who has filed suit against the township, its mayor and its police chief will be heading to trial next year after more than two years of legal complications.By way of background, Sgt. Timothy O’Brien has alleged via formal complaint that he was de...

WESTFIELD — Westfield’s intermediate- and high-school students may find themselves following new schedules when class resumes in the fall of 2025. On Tuesday, during a regular meeting of the Westfield Board of Education, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment Matthew Bolt...