Personal credit should always be reviewed prior to divorce to allow time to build it or improve it. Strong credit is necessary post-divorce to rent a home, qualify for a mortgage or to buy/lease a car, therefore it is important to know where you stand and establish a plan. The first step in addressi...

Last month I wrote about how to begin discussions about money with your younger children. This month’s focus is on how to expand these discussions to engage and empower your teens. Consider some of the following suggestions: · Explain the concept of paying yourself first – As the earning years begin...

You can demonstrate this resilience by answering these questions: What is your specific goal? What obstacle do you face in achieving this goal? How can you overcome this obstacle? Here are some examples of how this resiliency process works: Goal: Building sufficient retirement funds. To build suffic...

California Burritos Opens In Cranford By KATIE MOEN For The Westfield Leader and Union County HAWK CRANFORD — A bit of southwest flavor is on the menu in Cranford thanks to the efforts of two local businessmen with big ambitions and even bigger appetites. California Burritos held its grand opening a...

SCOTCH PLAINS – The township council on Tuesday named Woodmont Properties LLC as the conditional redeveloper of the nine acres of public properties in the downtown business district. The move comes two years after the council cut ties with the previous redeveloper and a year after it began evaluatin...

Over the last 2 1/2 years we collectively experienced a range of emotions from fear and helplessness to anger and frustration. We saw our friends and families struggle too, whether physically, emotionally, or even financially. While physical and emotional fortitude is different for everyone, financi...

For more than a decade, inflation has been essentially dormant. In recent months, though, economists have expected an uptick but were still surprised by the sharp jump in the April Consumer Price Index (CPI), which rose 4.2 percent from a year ago. As an investor, what can you expect if we do enter ...

WESTFIELD — March 22 at 7:30 p.m. LIVE STREAMED “Bryan Stevenson may, indeed, be America’s Mandela.” — Nicholas Kristof, The New York Times. We are honored and excited to announce that Bryan Stevenson, acclaimed human rights attorney, founder of The Equal Justice Initiative and author of The New Yor...

WESTFIELD — For Dennis and Viktoria Seiz, life is naturally sweet. On Friday, the couple celebrated the grand opening of their new downtown patisserie, Viktoria Seiz. The café, located at 407 South Avenue West, boasts a wide array of homemade vegan, raw, organic, dairy and gluten-free desserts along...

SCOTCH PLAINS – Neighbors of Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School were successful in obtaining an order prohibiting the board of education (BOE) from using the newly-installed lights at Perry Tyson Field. Union County Superior Court Assignment Judge Karen Cassidy ruled following a two-hour court hearin...