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Fanwood New Jersey
Fanwood New Jersey

Borough Council passes budget without increase

The Fanwood Borough Council this week passed its 2016 operating budget with no municipal tax increase. In fact, in includes an average municipal tax decrease of $3.54 per household. "It's a small cut, of course, but we felt we wanted to do something to help our residents offset what promises to be a significant increase ...

May 15th, 2016|

Mallory Banks presents $10,500 check to Autism New Jersey

On Tuesday, May 10, Fanwood resident Mallory Banks, 14, presented a check for $10,500 to Autism New Jersey. The money was raised during an April music festival at Fanwood's LaGrande Park. The check was presented to Ellen Schisler, Director of Development and Marketing for Autism New Jersey, a statewide network of parents and professionals seeking to better the ...

May 10th, 2016|

Over $10,000 raised at Rockin’ for Autism music festival

Beautiful spring weather, great live music and a worthy cause brought hundreds of folks to Fanwood's LaGrande Park Saturday, April 16th, for the first annual Rockin' for Autism music festival, a fundraiser for Autism New Jersey created by Mallory Banks, 14, a Fanwood resident who has raised money in the past for autism causes in ...

April 16th, 2016|

Little League season launched in Fanwood

Mayor Colleen Mahr threw out a ceremonial first pitch Saturday, April 16th, to launch the 2016 season of the Scotch Plains-Fanwood Youth Baseball League. The inaugural pitch came at LaGrande Park and capped off the daylong Rockin' for Autism music festival. It's the first time the League launched its season in Fanwood since the Scotch ...

April 16th, 2016|

Deadline approaching for Fanwood Rec summer programs enrollment

If you have children entering grades 6–9 in September, the Tweens & Teens Travel Camp is now open for registration, too. Register by April 3 and save $15. The camp is scheduled for the weeks of July 18 and July 25. Destinations include Delaware River Tubing, Mountain Creek Water Park, Zoom Ziplines, New York Mets, NYC ...

April 1st, 2016|

Leaving soon! Fanwood’s caboose making trip to new home

The caboose that's been sitting in the recycling center since 2010 is destined for a new life at a new home. At the Borough Council meeting Monday, March 21, the Council approved a resolution to donate the caboose to the Sterling Hill Mining Museum in Ogdensburg, N.J., a familiar destination for class trips by school ...

March 26th, 2016|

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March 16th, 2016|

Fanwood police help turn Girl Scouts’ cookie clash into happy ending

Selling Girl Scout cookies on their own street in Scotch Plains turned ugly for two little girls in February. But as one of them now says, it was a blessing in disguise. Angelina Skolar, 9, and her sister Natalie, 12, now have boxes and boxes of Girl Scout cookies in their dining room, the result ...

March 13th, 2016|

Police, officials gather in Fanwood to hear gun safety message

Nearly two dozen government and law enforcement officials from Union County met Thursday, March 3, at Fanwood's Forest Road Park to hear from the New Jersey chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America on how a gun safety campaign the group advocates, Be SMART, can work in their towns. "Our ultimate goal ...

March 3rd, 2016|

MLK Day of Service draws a large turnout of volunteers

The seventh annual Martin Luther King Day of Service drew several hundred volunteers to more than two dozen events throughout the area Monday as people made it, "a day on, not a day off" by taking part in a wide range of activities. There was something for everyone as kids made cards for other kids ...

February 26th, 2016|