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WESTFIELD, NJ – Bell-bottoms, skinny jeans, baby jeans and everything in between comprise the denim collected by local high school students with the help of an elementary school PTO in Bergen County.

The Westfield High School Green Team, Kids on Block clubs and Park Ridge’s Westridge School PTO recently collected 1,939 pairs of jeans – 1,602 of them from the Westfield ...

WESTFIELD, NJ – Dough, cheese, sauce, mushrooms, olives and pepperoni are among the ingredients that 10 children, half of them with special needs, used to make individual pies at a local pizza shop earlier this week.

The gathering of elementary school-aged youths at Outta Hand Pizza, 311 South Ave. West, on Sunday, included lessons from the local shop’s owners and ...

Westfield High School junior Thomas Lupicki and senior Julia Plawker have received the highest score possible on portions of the August 2018 SAT standardized tests, the school district announced. 

Lupicki scored an 800 on the chemistry portion of the exam, while Julia received the same perfect score on the exam's math level two portion, the announcement said.

“I commend you ...

WESTFIELD, NJ -- Four Westfield High School seniors have been named National Merit Semifinalists in the program honoring students who show exceptional academic ability and potential for success in college, the school district announced.

Austin Chen, Madeline Reynders, Edward Xing and Zachary Youssef were named semifinalists in the 2019 National Merit Scholarship Competition, the announcement ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — The National Weather Service has issued another heat advisory in effect for the area, in effect until Thursday at 7 p.m. Heat index values are expected to be around 100 degrees Thursday afternoon.

While some local school districts, including neighboring Scotch Plains-Fanwood, are sending kids home early Thursday, Westfield Public Schools — which now has air ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Westfield Public Schools welcomed about 6,300 students to its 10 schools Wednesday, the first day of the 2018-2019 school year.

TAPinto readers are invited to share your photos in this story by emailing them to jlieberman@tapinto.net.

Superintendent Dr. Margaret Dolan welcomed back about 900 staff members on Tuesday, praising the custodial and maintenance staff, ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — McKinley Elementary School parent Cheryl Bishop expressed her concern about the planned increase in class size for her twins’ fourth grade classes during public comments at Tuesday’s school board meeting.

“We’re just not sure how the teachers are going to differentiate instruction and handle anywhere from 23 to 27 kids in ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — School Business Administrator/Board Secretary Dana Sullivan listed the many updates, renovations and repairs made to Westfield public schools over the summer months at the Westfield Board of Education's first meeting of the school year Tuesday. 

“Our custodians and our maintenance guys, as they do every year, really worked very very hard and ...

WESTFIELD, NJ —  In its September issue, New Jersey Monthly ranks Westfield High School No. 37 on its list of top 100 public high schools in the state. The last time the list came out, in 2016, Westfield High School was ranked No. 8.

New Jersey Monthly says it creates its “Top Public High Schools” chart based on data collected by the NJ Department of ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — The Westfield Green Team, the Westfield High School Green Team and the Tamaques Learning Team have teamed up this year to collect clean, undamaged used backpacks and lunch bags for kids in need, according to Councilman David Contract.

There will be large collection boxes by the front doors of all three schools at the front entrances of Westfield High School, ...