FANWOOD – The borough council on Monday authorized the submission of a state Green Acres grant application to help fund proposed renovations and upgrades to Forest Road Park.At a meeting crowded with young students eager to give their opinions on what should be done with the park, Gary Oliva, a proj...

CLARK- During Monday night’s regular meeting of the Board of Education, Andrew Parenete, a financial auditor from Lerch, Vinvi & Bliss gave a presentation of the 2022-2023 school year audit.The Clark school district received two reports: a larger examination of its comprehensive finances and a small...

SCOTCH PLAINS – The township council will introduce the 2024 operating budget next month, and it’s expected that the municipal portion of the total property tax levy this year will rise by about $72 for the average household, thanks to higher expenditures for health insurance and pension contributio...

SCOTCH PLAINS — Thursday evening’s Scotch Plains-Fanwood Board of Education meeting brought out residents voicing concerns on both sides regarding the postponed use of a work of historical fiction entitled “Mornings in Jenin” by Susan Abulhawa. The book had been planned for use as an elective peer-l...

Your business can sponsor the Police Blotter Call 908-232-4407 or email sales@goleader.comCLARKMonday, January 22, police took a report of the theft of items from a retail business located at 10 Westfield Avenue. The incident is under investigation.Wednesday, January 24, police took a report of frau...

WESTFIELD -- On Friday January 26 at 2:19 p.m., the Westfield Fire Department responded to the report of a truck fire on the 400 block of East Broad Street. The first arriving Fire Department unit arrived on scene at 2:23 p.m., to discover a fully involved engine and cab compartment of an eighteen-w...

WESTFIELD —After more than a year and a half of legal challenges and local complications, plans to break ground on a new mixed-use residential complex known as the Sophia at the corner of Prospect Street and Ferris Place are once again moving forward now that a lawsuit filed against the project has ...

AREA — State Senator Jon Bramnick, a Union County native and self-described moderate Republican, officially announced his intention to seek his party’s nomination in the 2025 race for governor during a special event held Saturday at a comedy club in New Brunswick.Mr. Bramnick, an attorney who occasi...

WESTFIELD — A group of migrants traveling from Texas to New York was temporarily routed through Westfield Thursday morning after being dropped at the South Avenue train station. Similarly orchestrated dropoffs, many of which have included children and families, have been reported in numerous other t...

WESTFIELD — The Westfield mayor and council introduced two new ordinances during their regular meeting on Tuesday evening: one that clarifies salary ranges for certain members of the town’s police department and a second that will establish a new, increased fee structure with the Rahway Valley Sewer...