BOROUGH NEWS
Tax Bills Delayed
The mailing of tax bills for August will be delayed pending the receipt of the tax rate for 2024. The grace period to pay taxes due on August 1st will be extended. Information regarding the extended date will be shown on the tax bill.
7th Juneteenth Celebration Held at Shady Rest Golf Club
(Scotch Plains, NJ) -- Social Justice Matters of Scotch Plains and Fanwood held its 7th annual Juneteenth Celebration on Saturday, June 22nd at the Shady Rest Golf and Country Club. This year’s theme was “SANKOFA: Looking Back at our Past to Move Forward with Purpose for a Brighter ...
Robert Schott Created Bench at Nature Center in 1974
Fifty years ago, 16-year-old Robert Schott was looking to complete his Eagle Scout project and was told that work was needed at a nature center being constructed in Fanwood. Robert Schott sits on bench he made for the Nature Center in 1974. Nature Center bench. Pouring footings with ...
Special Brush Pickup
Due to the recent storm, The Department of Public Works will perform a special onetime curbside branch and storm debris pickup in all quadrants of the Borough beginning Monday July 8th. Residents are asked to place their debris curbside in the street by 7am on July 8th for ...
PUBLIC NOTICES
Recording & Info from the 5/18 South Ave Infrastructure Project Meeting
You can watch the May 18 meeting by clicking here. BOROUGH OF FANWOOD PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING SOUTH AVENUE TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT VIRTUAL MEETING Date: May 18, 2021 Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm The Borough of Fanwood is performing preliminary engineering for the South Avenue Transportation ...
Highlights from the May 17, 2021, regular Borough Council Meeting
As we start to slowly emerge from the pandemic, it was appropriate that front-line responders and nurses were honored with proclamations and citations tonight. Thirteen officers from the Fanwood Police Department received citations for extraordinary service to the town, intervening in a number of life-threatening situations to arrest ...
Rayna Harris tackles the business of running Fanwood
(Fanwood, NJ)--Mayor Colleen Mahr is delighted to introduce Rayna E. Harris as Administrator for the Borough of Fanwood. Born and raised in Union County, and currently living in Linden, Ms. Harris comes from a family of public servants and always felt that working in government to serve the ...
What can you bring to the Recycling Center?
The following items will be accepted at the Recycling Center: Appliances & Scrap Metal Electronics as follows: TVs, PCs, (Desktop & Laptops, Monitors, Printers), Copiers, Scanners, Fax Machines Light Bulbs: Fluorescent light bulbs (unbroken), Compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are NOT accepted. Incandescent bulbs are NOT recyclable. Oil ONLY ...