BOROUGH NEWS
Easter Egg Hunt Draws Hundreds to Forest Road Park
(Fanwood NJ) —The annual Fanwood Easter Egg Hunt, delayed by a week due to rain, attracted hundreds under cloudy skies Saturday morning at Forrest Road Park. Children made the mad dash to find eggs filled with candy and prizes, more than 2,000 of them. Contests included jellybean counting, ...
Celebrate Earth Day’s 36th Anniversary with Fanwood on Saturday, April 26th
(Fanwood, NJ) -- Come celebrate the 36th anniversary of Fanwood’s Clean Communities Day on Saturday, April 26, as part of the community’s observance of Earth Day by helping the Borough with its “spring cleaning.” Individual volunteers of all ages, Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, interested organizations and family groups ...
LCBA Feature: Fanwood Memorial Library
The opening of the Fanwood Memorial Library’s new building is the culmination of a decade of planning that began with the demolition of the 70-year-old original library in January 2023, followed by the groundbreaking ceremony for the new facility in February 2023. The new building opened to the public ...
PUBLIC NOTICES
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 ...
New NJEDA Grants for Small Businesses
The New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) has announced $85 million in new grants for small businesses impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic through Phase 4 of the Small Business Emergency Assistance Grant Program. This round of funding will provide grants up to $20,000 to small and medium sized ...