Westfield Recap: School Reopening Plans, Isaias, Young People With COVID & More

UNION COUNTY, NJ — The county will release a new block of COVID-19 vaccination appointments Sunday, officials said.

Eligible residents can register on the county's online portal starting at 11 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 24, the county announced Saturday. Union County is administering vaccinations at Kean University in Union.

The announcement did not say how many appointments would open.

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TRENTON, NJ — Gov. Phil Murphy took pride in announcing that New Jersey has distributed over a half-million doses of the COVID vaccine.

The governor said during his coronavirus press briefing Friday that 500,222 doses have been administered statewide — including 65,583 long-term care facility residents and staff. He added that just last Wednesday, the number was just over 250,000 and explained ...

NEW JERSEY — Disco fries, deep-fried Italian hot dogs, cheesy breakfast sandwiches — New Jersey restaurants are home to foods we crave, even if they’re not the best choices for our bodies on a daily basis.

We wondered, when it comes nutrition, can you have your cheesecake and eat it, too?

Michele Smith, licensed mental health counselor, certified intuitive eating counselor and owner of The ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — A series of stickers posted on local streets in support of a white supremacist group were removed this week and later condemned by the authorities, who said they are investigating.

Officials with the Union County Prosecutor’s Office said investigators are aware of materials found affixed to public property in Westfield advertising a group identified by the Southern Poverty Law ...

UNION COUNTY, NJ — The county has struggled to provide enough COVID-19 vaccines to meet demand, especially for seniors and other residents without computers, but the Board of Commissioners says it will ramp up its outreach efforts next week.

Anyone 65 and older is eligible to receive the vaccine, as are persons aged 16 to 64 years old who have at least one chronic medical condition that poses ...

TRENTON – A former meter reader for the New Brunswick Water Department has been sentenced to state prison for participating in a scheme with two other former water department employees to reduce the water and sewer bills of numerous customers in return for bribes, according to the state attorney general’s office.

Guillermo Quinones, 51, of Somerset, was sentenced Thursday to five years in ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — The pandemic has brought indoor air quality issues to the forefront of the Westfield public school district’s facilities planning.

On Tuesday, the Board of Education approved $9.85 million for a ventilation and air conditioning project after hearing from district architect George Duthie.

Due to the high cost, the project will be broken up into multiple phases over the course ...

SPRINGFIELD, NJ — Local residents are mourning the loss of former Jonathan Dayton High School Assistant Principal Manuel Pereira, who passed away on Jan. 17.

Pereira, 78, a Westfield resident, was born on April 26, 1942, in Palmerton, Pennsylvania. He met his wife Elaine in 1963, marrying her in 1966. They lived in Roselle Park for a time, before moving to Westfield in 1969. While living in ...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ — While many parents have been skeptical how long in-person instruction would continue in Scotch Plains-Fanwood after the district went from all-remote to hybrid this week, few could have imagined that in-class learning would be postponed again because of a cyber-attack on SPFK12 computers.

The announcement came on Thursday, Jan. 21, which was the first day of in ...

SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ — Longtime Scotch Plains-Fanwood High School boys soccer coach Tom Breznitsky died on Thursday morning.

Breznitsky put Scotch Plains-Fanwood soccer on the map in the 1980s, and the Raiders' dominance continued through the ensuing years. In more than four decades as varsity high school coach, “Brez” built one of the more successful high school soccer programs in the ...