WESTFIELD, NJ – With four children and a husband who coaches youth athletics, Jeannie Dillon cheered on local youth sports teams religiously on weekend mornings, her older sister said.

As can happen in youth sports, parents would sometimes become overly engaged, but Dillon had a way to quell the crowd, the sister, Anne Dillon, said on Tuesday.

“In the middle of some of ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — As important as the match was for both Westfield and Union Catholic, the cause both teams played for put the volleyball result in the back seat Saturday. 

Union Catholic captured a three-set win in a likely preview of the upcoming Union County Tournament final. But the Scotch Plains win wasn’t the main event at Westfield High School's ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Westfield High School will make the switch to pink from its traditional color of blue this Saturday afternoon, as the Westfield girls’ volleyball program will host its 10th annual “Pink Out” tournament in accordance with October being National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. 

All three Westfield girls’ volleyball teams — Freshmen, JV, and ...

Updated at 6:58 p.m. Oct. 19

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WESTFIELD, NJ – Do senior citizens use ride-sharing services such as Uber and Lyft, or do they take the senior bus? How many senior citizens surf the Internet? Do senior citizens access the web from their cell phones?

These are among the questions the Lifelong Westfield Advisory Council is ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – A newly formed task force of local officials and volunteers has been charged with identifying best practices for handling mental illness, reducing the stigma surrounding it and heightening awareness of resources available for treatment.

The 10-member Westfield Youth and Family Mental Health Commission to be directed by Mayor Shelley Brindle, Schools Superintendent ...

MOUNTAINSIDE, NJ – The Grand Opening celebration of Arbor Terrace Mountainside not only met expectations, it exceeded most people's.

It drew hundreds of people – including Mayor Paul Mirabelli, members of the Greater Westfield Chamber of Commerce, Arbor Terrace “home office” executives, and others who helped turn Arbor Terrace Mountainside from a dream into a ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – Candidates on the “ballot” Monday included Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent and Swamp Thing, as Union County officials showed residents the workings of a new voting machine at the Town Hall.

But this November, voters casting ballots in this undecided town in the hotly contested Seventh Congressional District race for Rep. Leonard Lance’s seat will pick real ...

PLAINFIELD, NJ — A resolution for $1.9 million for a new vote tabulation system by ES&S was approved at the first Union County Freeholders mobile meeting on Thursday, held in Plainfield's municipal court.

Nicole DiRado, an administrator from the Office of the Board of Elections, said that although the machines will not be in use in most parts of the county until 2019, they will ...

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 ...

WESTFIELD, NJ -- Few details were available pertaining to a crash reported near a school on Lambert's Mill Road Thursday afternoon, the latest in a series reported on or near the winding roadway.

A police department spokesman did not respond to requests for information on the crash Thursday evening, and the police chief was not available to discuss the incident.

By 5 p.m., traffic ...

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ — U.S. Route 22 and Terrill Road have reopened following a motor vehicle accident involving a box truck. 

Expect delays in the area.

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 ...

CRANFORD, NJ – Emma’s Brick Oven in the heart of downtown Cranford is celebrating its one year anniversary under the management and ownership of Victor Biancamano and Andrew Galli.

“It’s been a great year; we have introduced new items to the menus, renovated the space and worked to create an amazing dining experience. It’s what we think of as ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Disappointed that you couldn’t get tickets for Charlie’s Ale Garden during AddamsFest? Despite a “sold out” image on the Beer Garden page on AddamsFest.com, organizers said that more tickets will become available for purchase later this week.

“As we said, we can only pre-sell as many tickets as our rain location at the Armory will ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Catch up on this week's local news with this quick video, and find the stories linked below.

Westfield Mayor Reacts to Outcry Over Poor Communication Of Home Burglary Spree

Hit-And-Run Reported Near Holy Trinity School in Westfield: Police

Batch Of Westfield Beer Garden Tickets Snapped Up In Seconds

Westfield Rallies Around Family Of Mom Taken By ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – Municipal officials announced the following roadway schedule of roadway improvement Friday, on Facebook:

Carleton Road, Grove Street, Sycamore: The installation of handicapped accessible ramps will continue on these streets, including the replacement of manhole and drainage inlet infrastructure, the announcement said. Starting the week of Oct. 29, the roadways will be ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – Visitors to the downtown have 98 free parking spaces accessible to them, at least for now.

The long-awaited reconstruction of a Parking Lot 7, at the intersection of Central and Lenox avenues, is nearly complete and the lot is open, the municipality announced Wednesday.

The work expands the parking lot’s capacity by 12 spaces, bringing it from 86 to 98 spaces, ...

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 ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Code Ninjas, a coding center for children ages 7 to 14, celebrated its grand opening in at 1006 South Ave. West in Westfield this weekend.

At Code Ninjas, kids can learn by designing their own video games, as well as through STEM activities.

“We’re not trying to make every child a programmer,” said Protima Pandey, who owns the franchise with her ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – A $3.03 million renovation to Kehler Stadium has been moved up by one month to accommodate concern raised by track teams, who will have to practice elsewhere during the stadium’s overhaul.

The Board of Education on Tuesday amended its contract with Your Way Construction Inc., of Irvington. The company will replace the running track, resurface the turf field and ...

WESTFIELD, NJ  — Even when it was going undefeated en route to winning sectional football championships the last couple of years, Westfield always found itself locked in rugged defensive wars when it lined up against Elizabeth.

The Elizabeth players who were part of those low-scoring defensive struggles remembered well, and turned the tables on the Blue Devils Saturday. Elizabeth ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – A center back defense player, Lily Maz is a local fly girl, at least when it comes to field hockey.

The 17-year-old high school senior and year-four varsity starter has led the team’s defense, powering the Lady Blue Devils to a 12-5 record this season, head girls field hockey coach Caitlin Cheddar said.

Lily is this week’s Ron Bansky and Associates Allstate ...

BRIDGEWATER, NJ — The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball has named Somerset Patriots President/General Manager Patrick McVerrythe 2018 Joe Klein Executive of the Year.

The Somerset Patriots also received the Ken Shepard Award For Promotional Excellence for the second consecutive season.

McVerry oversaw the Somerset Patriots’ 20th Season at TD Bank Ballpark in 2018, where ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Before she found Westfield, Michigan native Paige Gaines thought all of New Jersey looked like Secaucus, a thickly populated Hudson County town best known for its major commercial distribution center and transit hub.

“How could I know that there would be the Westfields of the world out there,” Gaines said on Monday. “It’s a ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Built in 1872 in the Italianate Victorian-style, The Reeve House has been designated a national historic landmark but has no local historic designation, something that is about to change.

Looking to take advantage of a proposed state tax incentive program, municipal officials are on track to giving The Reeve House and Triangle Park, both on Mountain Avenue, local ...

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 ...

Rutgers Glee Club To Perform at At 'Guys Night' Concert Friday

WESTFIELD, NJ — It's not always considered “cool” for men and boys to sing, but that's what's going to happen at Edison Intermediate School this Friday.

The Westfield High School Choral Department will host its first “Guys Night of Singing,” to be held in the Edison Intermediate ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — From Westfield’s New Jersey Workshop for the Arts to the stages of Broadway, Tony and Emmy Award Nominated Composer and Westfield native Matthew Sklar continues to wow with his third musical, “The Prom.”

The Broadway show, which opens Oct. 23 at the Longacre Theater, is about a group of Broadway has-beens who decide to shine and hopefully ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – A major artery in the downtown has reopened after the month-long closure of Elm Street from Walnut Street to East Broad Street.

Union County workers shut down the thoroughfare to replace a culvert, a type of drainage infrastructure, last month and although the thoroughfare reopened this week, the traffic woes on Elm Street might not be over.

In the project’s ...

BRIDGEWATER, NJ — The Atlantic League of Professional Baseball has named Somerset Patriots President/General Manager Patrick McVerrythe 2018 Joe Klein Executive of the Year.

The Somerset Patriots also received the Ken Shepard Award For Promotional Excellence for the second consecutive season.

McVerry oversaw the Somerset Patriots’ 20th Season at TD Bank Ballpark in 2018, where ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Code Ninjas, a coding center for children ages 7 to 14, celebrated its grand opening in at 1006 South Ave. West in Westfield this weekend.

At Code Ninjas, kids can learn by designing their own video games, as well as through STEM activities.

“We’re not trying to make every child a programmer,” said Protima Pandey, who owns the franchise with her ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Before she found Westfield, Michigan native Paige Gaines thought all of New Jersey looked like Secaucus, a thickly populated Hudson County town best known for its major commercial distribution center and transit hub.

“How could I know that there would be the Westfields of the world out there,” Gaines said on Monday. “It’s a ...