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WESTFIELD, NJ — Under a proposed local law intended to incentive development, property owners in the downtown who substantially improve their infrastructure would not immediately see the resulting property tax increases that typically come with higher property values.

The town council on Tuesday introduced the law that would allow for tax abatements of up to five years on the value of ...

Gov. Phil Murphy has yet to issue guidance on opening public pools during COVID-19.

WESTFIELD, NJ — Residents hoping to put in a backyard pool can still do so in time for summer, town officials said. 

As residents worry over the state of public pools, applications to the town for private pools have been coming in steadily, said Frank Vuoso, a construction official for the ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — A virtual public hearing on the town’s 2020 budget is set for Tuesday.

The $46.085 million spending plan reflects reductions in revenue from court fines and fees, building department fees and parking fees, officials said. These reductions, the officials said, are largely a result of COVID-19.

The owner of a home assessed at the town’s average value of ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Memorial Day ceremonies will be held privately in Westfield Monday morning and available to watch on the town’s social media pages, the mayor announced.

Due to social distancing requirements, the ceremony will not be open to the public, Mayor Shelley Brindle said in a statement Friday evening.

“It will be recorded and available on the Town’s social ...

Following public pressure, the district has added a second grade section at Tamaques School.

WESTFIELD, NJ — Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, plans for full-day public kindergarten in Westfield are on hold.

The school board’s long-range planning committee met earlier in May and determined it would be best not to move forward with plans for full-day kindergarten at this time, said ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — The requests submitted from the cell phone application Westfield Connect include those to fill potholes, remove tree branches from the streets and unclog sewer drains — among other tasks.

In its first year of implementing the technology allowing residents to submit public works service requests through their smartphones, the town took in 781 requests, ...

Tennis courts and batting cages will be open, but basketball courts will remain closed.

WESTFIELD, NJ — Seventh-grader Savannah Cohen has been struggling to find places to practice her tennis swing during the pandemic.

Cohen, 13, found herself pounding a tennis ball against a wall of the closed L'Oreal facility in Clark recently, but it's a lousy substitute ...

WESTFIELD, NJ ­— Owners in the town’s special improvement district who choose to improve their properties won’t be immediately saddled with an increased tax assessment under a plan approved by the Town Council.

The town council on Tuesday designated the town’s special improvement district, or SID, an “area in need of rehabilitation” — a designation ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — This weekend the town intends to open parks to vehicular traffic along with the tennis courts in those parks, the mayor said.

Mayor Shelley Brindle said the town would announce more details about the anticipated openings later this week.

UPDATE: Westfield Tennis Courts Reopen Friday. No Chest Bumping Allowed.

“We are aiming to have protocols finalized for ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — Bow hunters bagged 20 deer in Westfield as part of Union County’s annual deer hunt this past winter, the town administrator said Tuesday.

The hunters killed 16 deer in Brightwood Park and four in the area of Lamberts Mill Road, Town Administrator Jim Gildea said at Tuesday's virtual council meeting.

“There were no deer running beyond the limits of ...