By CRAIG ROGERS
May 20, 2020In the not-so-distant future, our corona-closed world will gradually re-open, allowing New Jersians the freedom to shop out, to dine in and to basically do anything that’s not based in our ...
By ELIZABETH PARASCANDOLA-CLEE
June 5, 2020CLARK, NJ – Demonstrations were held at the Clark Commons for several hours on Thursday before more than 400 people marched down Raritan Road with a police escort to Westfield Avenue and finally assembled in front of the Clark Police Department.
Once there, organizers invited Police Chief Matos to address the crowd.
“I wish there is something I could say that would take away the ...
By AUSTIN HOLMAN
June 4, 2020Austin Holman is the coach of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School football team. He sent this letter to his players, coaches, parents and supporters. Published here with permission.
Dear Raider Family:
I write this to you as the leader of the football community in the district of Scotch Plains-Fanwood. However, today I’m writing to you as something more than that. I’m ...
By JOANN NEYLAN
June 5, 2020This week, we conclude our examination of the many problems with PILOTs and the tax abatement programs that the Brindle Administration recently set in motion in Westfield. It is an examination that we would have expected the Mayor and Council to openly undertake with input from all residents, preferably after the global pandemic ended. Unfortunately, Mayor Brindle chose a different ...
By UNION COUNTY OFFICE OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
June 5, 2020Union County Board of Elections Administrator Nicole DiRado reminds voters that the upcoming Primary Election on July 7 will be conducted primarily by Vote-by-Mail, by order of New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy, to help prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus. A limited number of in person polling locations will be available on Election D
“The COVID-19 precautions are still in force, and ...
By LOURI RIVERO BORR, CPA
Recently the U.S. House approved legislation making it easier for small businesses and other recipients of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding to qualify for forgiveness of the loans.
What to know?
The bill extends to the recipients have to spend their funds which is 8-24 weeks.
The measure lowers to 60% from 75% the portion of PPP funds borrowers must pend on payroll costs ...
By ROTARY CLUB OF WESTFIELD, NJ
Rotarian Phil Richardson has spearheaded a drive to raise funds through The Rotary Club of Westfield in order to donate two cases of face shields to two local hospitals: The Children's Specialized Hospital in Mountainside, NJ, and Overlook Medical Center in Summit, NJ.
Face shields are part of the “PPE” — Personal Protective Equipment — needed in health care ...
By TAPINTO.NET
The featured TAPinto franchisee for the month of June 2020 is Brett Freeman, CEO and Publisher of Halston Media Group. Halston Media Group owns and operates five hardcopy newspapers and utilizes TAPinto as their online platform for their newspapers. Halston Media Group's five TAPinto franchises are TAPinto Mahopac, TAPinto Somers, TAPinto Yorktown, TAPinto North Salem, and ...
By FRED SHAHROOZ SCAMPATO
The State of New Jersey requires businesses which reopen to be in compliance with all guidelines and directives issued by the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH), the Center for Disease Control (“CDC) and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) for maintaining a clean, safe and healthy work environment. OSHA guidelines require employers to ...
By SUSAN MASSA BROKER ASSOCIATE CRS SRES ABR
Six homes sold May 24 through May 31, 2020, in Westfield, Scotch Plains, Mountainside, Cranford, Fanwood and Garwood, according to the Garden State MLS.*
TOWN ADDRESS ...
By ROB SEMAN
SUMMIT & MORRISTOWN, NJ – JUNE 2020 – The chief nursing officers of two Atlantic Health System hospitals were named to the 2020 list of “50 Hospital and Health System CNOs to Know,” by Becker’s Healthcare, one of the nation’s leading news sources covering the health care field.
Carol Jones, RN and chief nursing officer at Morristown Medical Center, ...
By DAVID G. DIETZE, JD, CFA, CFP™
The stock market has done the one thing nearly all the pundits said was impossible: making a V-shaped recovery. The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, has soared nearly 40% since the apparent bottom, March 23. The market is now up on a year over year basis and is down only about 6% year to date.
Yet, the economic and medical prospects are, at best, dicey. On the ...
By MARIA SIKOUTRIS DI IORIO
We often think that others are responsible for making us feel guilty. This is not true.
Others may try to manipulate us by saying certain things to make us feel guilty and at times they are very effective in causing us self-doubt. However, the reason that manipulators are able to make us feel guilty is that a part of us agree with their message and the doubt already exists in ...
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EDISON, NJ -- Third grade students at The Wardlaw+Hartridge School in Edison performed on their recorders with homemade videos to create a wonderful virtual recital.
The students began learning the recorder at the beginning of the school year. They continued practicing and improving their skills during distance learning. The repertoire includes songs learned early in the ...
By COUNTY OF UNION
Union County, NJ – Union County residents who are interested in composting food waste in their own backyards can tune into two online classes, as part of the Freeholder Board’s year-long “Make One Change” initiative to help protect the environment. Both classes are sponsored by the Rutgers Cooperative Extension. They will be held on June 15 and 17.
“Union County ...
By WESTFIELD AREA YMCA
The Westfield Area YMCA is excited to announce that traditional day camp programs for kids entering grades K through 10 will begin July 6. Registration is now underway.
All camps will meet the new guidelines set by the CDC, ACA (American Camp Association) and state and local health departments. These include social distancing regulations, small consistent ...
By BY YOSSY GOLDMAN
“Nothing new under the sun,” wrote King Solomon in Ecclesiastes. And so, we discover in this week’s Torah reading that infidelity and other marital problems aren’t exactly a new societal phenomenon.
One of the main features of our Parshah is the story of the sotah, a woman accused of adultery. In the biblical account, the husband ...
By M.E. CAGNASSOLA
May 31, 2020NEWARK, NJ — Hundreds of demonstrators marched through downtown Newark on Saturday, part of a nationwide show of resistance against police brutality, in response to the killing of George Floyd by a police officer in Minneapolis.
Organizers used the display of solidarity with Minneapolis as an opportunity to call attention to Newark's own struggle for officer accountability, ...
