Lately, everywhere you turn people are concerned about rising inflation. The costs of items from groceries to automobiles and even real estate have increased significantly since the beginning of the year. But is inflation a good thing or a bad thing? Before answering that, let us review some of the ...

WESTFIELD — For Lisa Sommers, owner of the new Elm Street Gallery (The Gallery), art and tranquility go hand in hand. “I just find it very fulfilling to make beautiful spaces,” Ms. Sommers told Union County HAWK during a visit to The Gallery last week. “When I first looked at this store, it was pain...

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 ...

Mary Robinson, CNN Hero and Founder of two children’s grief support centers, including Imagine, A Center for Coping with Loss which opened in Westfield in 2011, has opened a private practice in Madison, NJ. “My focus and area of specialty is on grief and loss and life transitions of all types for ch...

One-on-one 60-minute guitar instruction: $45.00. PJ Cotroneo Guitarist, guitar instructor and college instructor of History of Jazz & Music Appreciation. We’ll cover the music and songs you want to play, as well as music theory and guitar sight reading. Private, virtual lessons are conducted via Sky...

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 — 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...