Scotch Plains-Fanwood Merchants Celebrate Small Business Saturday

WESTFIELD, NJ – Getting into the beer garden at AddamsFest has become akin to securing a ticket to the Broadway show “Hamilton.”

At least that’s the drama that played out on the festival organizers’ Facebook page Thursday night as a limited batch of tickets to the festival’s beer garden were snapped up within seconds of them being put up for sale.

"It was like a Bruce Springsteen concert or ...

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- The five schools that comprise the Union County Vocational-Technical Schools (UCVTS) campus went into lockdown for about two hours on Friday afternoon when an unidentified individual who admitted carrying a pocket knife entered the complex. Located on Raritan Road in Scotch Plains, the VoTech school district is comprised of Academy for Allied Health Services, Academy for ...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- The Rotary Frazee House and the Town of Scotch Plains will host the third annual Harvest Festival at the Frazee House, 1451 Raritan Road in Scotch Plains, on Saturday, Oct. 20, from 12:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. 
 
The event will coincide with Union County’s “Four Centuries in a Weekend.” Activities will include live music, pony rides, petting zoo, food trucks, ...

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ -- The Township of Scotch Plains will host a Columbus Day Celebration and 20th Anniversary of the Columbus Monument, Saturday, Oct. 20, at 10:00 a.m. on the Town Green at 430 Park Ave., Scotch Plains. 

Enjoy Music and Meet our UNICO Columbus Day Essay Winners. Refreshments provided by Scotch Plains-Fanwood UNICO & The Italian American Club.

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SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- NFL players are coming to Scotch Plains-Fanwood to raise money for two good causes on Saturday, Oct. 20.

The All-Star Basketball Game sponsored by the Fanwood-Scotch Plains Rotary Club will be a great family FUN-raiser in which NFL players from Giants, Jets, and Eagles will take the court and play the town's All-Star students, parents, teachers and community ...

FANWOOD, NJ -- Voters who live in Fanwood's Districts 4 and 5 will no longer vote at the Terrill Road Bible Chapel. They now should show up at the polls at the LaGrande Park Building. Entry is best from LaGrande Avenue at 3rd Street.

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EDISON, NJ -- Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author Sonia Nazario made an enlightening presentation to Upper and Middle School students in the Berry Performing Arts Center and later met with Upper Schoolers in a small group discussion in the Center for Global Learning during an appearance at Wardlaw+Hartridge on Oct. 12. 

Ms. Nazario, who is best known for Enrique’s Journey, the story ...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD — It’s been almost two years since Scotch Plains-Fanwood and Hunterdon Central squared off in an epic 2016 Group 4 state final, and exactly one month from now, it’s very possible both teams will meet again for the title. 

But before a possible showdown at Kean University on November 17, the Raiders and Red Devils met in a premier regular season game at Wexler Field ...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ -- While the Scotch Plains-Fanwood football team is still in search of its first win, a big bright spot for the season has been the play of Anthony Porter, this week's Joint Motion Physical Therapy Athlete of the Week.

Porter scored all of the Raiders' points versus Governor Livingston this past weekend. Anthony Porter led the Raiders with 84 rushing yards on 20 ...

FANWOOD, NJ -- Fanwood police are investigating an accident that tied up traffic at the intersection of North Ave. and Westfield Road just before 2:00 p.m. on Thursday. 

The driver was a 28-year-old male from Brooklyn who was traveling with a 22-year-old female passenger also from Brooklyn. The vehicle was heading from Westfield toward Fanwood when it attempted to pass a car that was turning ...