On Monday, November 16, the Hope Chest Thrift Store at 26 Prospect Street in Westfield will welcome in the Christmas season with a wonderful array of new and used holiday items. There will be wonderful toys to brighten a child’s Christmas morning and holiday gifts to be shared with friends and famil...

WESTFIELD — We’ve all found our own ways to cope with the isolation, the depression, the daily adjustments and the worry wrought by this pandemic. Some of us have found new hobbies. Others have launched new careers, learned new skills, started families or adopted too many cats. Some of us just watch...

SCOTCH PLAINS – The petition calling for a referendum on the Brookside Park artificial turf question, which was delivered to the municipal building last week, will be reviewed before the township council considers the next steps, according to Mayor Joshua Losardo. The petition, which garnered 2,050 ...

SCOTCH PLAINS – A split recreation commission on Monday voted to include funding for an artificial turf field at Brookside Park as part of its budget request to the township council, which will consider the turf question only after it holds a special meeting on the subject next month. After hearing ...

People often find their advisors through word of mouth from friends, family, or their personal network. While this is a good start, it is crucial to do research on the different criteria to be aware of and to fully understand the kind of advisor you will be working with. While there may not appear t...

Jacqueline Davidson Kopito has written a fiction book for tweens (ages 8-12) called “TWINTASTIC” which is now available on Amazon. Jacqueline, a 1986 graduate of Westfield High School, now lives in Short Hills with her husband and two sons. Her website is jacquelineKopito.com. The book blurb is as f...

The Rotary Club of Westfield has continued their regular Tuesday meetings at 12:15 through Zoom with a variety of guest speakers. The speaker on 12-1-2020 was club member Lauren Barr, Publisher of The Westfield Leader and The Scotch Plains-Fanwood Times. Barr purchased the newspapers just weeks befo...

Election Day is thankfully right around the corner. It has been a busy political season across our borough for the past six months. This election like all others each year is very important to all of us. The question that I asked myself, a retired senior with 40-plus years of government and budgetar...

SCOTCH PLAINS — A state-wide debate surrounding the definition of age-appropriate content in public schools reached the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education (BOE) last week when two of the district’s librarians stepped to the podium to share their methodologies for selecting materials. “With the...

Anyone experiencing a divorce is most likely thinking about the future well-being of their children, cash flow, living arrangements, or even employment options. The last thing on their minds is probably their personal credit. Your personal credit is an important part of your finances and should be m...