WESTFIELD, NJ – Local police are sporting the Blue Devil decal on their police vehicles after the acting police chief struck a deal with the school district’s athletic director.

Acting Police Chief Christopher Battiloro took up with the bargain with Supervisor of Athletics Sandra Mamary, who he has known since her early days when she started as an athletic trainer at Westfield High ...

September is Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month, and James J.S. Chen, M.D., FACHE, director of Atlantic Medical Group’s Thyroid Center at Summit and endocrinologist at Overlook Medical Center, believes it is critical that everyone know the warning signs of thyroid cancer.

“The most common form of thyroid cancer, papillary cancer, has a very high cure rate if detected early,” ...

‘Age of Innocence’ captures Wharton’s 1870’s New York

By LIZ KEILL

PRINCETON, NJ – Leave it to author Edith Wharton to decode the lives of staid, wealthy New Yorkers as she does so hauntingly in her Pulitzer Prize winning novel, “The Age of Innocence.”

Douglas McGrath adapted the novel for a stirring, 95-minute production at the McCarter Theatre ...

Twenty five homes sold Sept. 9 through Sept. 16, 2018, in Westfield, Mountainside, Cranford, Scotch Plains and Fanwood:*

TOWN                  ADDRESS             STYLE    ...

Don’t let the government catch you by surprise. The following IRS deadlines are ahead:

Sept. 17 – Third-quarter estimated income tax payments
Sept. 17 – Income tax returns for calendar year partnerships and S corporations on extension
Sept. 20 – New York second-quarter sales tax returns
Oct. 15 – Income tax returns for individuals on extension
Oct. 15 ...

As summer winds down and kids head back to school, most of us in New Jersey begin looking forward to fall. With the promise of cooler autumn evenings, campfires, s’mores, and all things ‘Pumpkin Spice,’ it can be easy for home maintenance tasks to go undone.

Here at A.J. Perri, we would like to remind you that winter is coming, and now is the best time to get your ...

Who is Eligible?

If your employer has 50 or more employees within a 75 mile radius of your worksite, and you have been working full time (i.e., at least 1,250 hours) for the entire 12 months prior to the start of an FMLA leave, then you are eligible to go out on an FMLA leave.

What can an FMLA leave be used for?

You can use the FMLA to go out on a leave for your own serious health ...

Family systems theory is a theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking to describe the complex interactions in the unit. 

Members of the family are intensely connected emotionally.  What affects one, affects all in the family system.  For example: when family members get anxious, the anxiety can escalate by spreading from one ...