CRANFORD - Congratulations to this week's Vinny's Pizza & Pasta Cranford Senior Athletes of the Week: Olivia Merriman and Christian Wilde.

Merriman is a guard on the girls basketball team. She scored 14 points, including two three-pointers, in Monday's matchup with Roselle Catholic, powering Cranford to a 53-38 victory. In Wednesday's loss against ...

CRANFORD - Amanda Vath scored 15 points and grabbed seven rebounds to lead Cranford to a 53-38 Senior Night victory over Roselle Catholic on Monday.

The Cougars' six seniors - Kirsten Williams, Elizabeth McCaffery, Caroline Bush, Amanda Vath, Natalia Kruk, and Olivia Merriman - were honored during the pregame for their contributions to the program over the ...

CRANFORD - Congratulations to this week's Vinny's Pizza & Pasta Cranford Senior Athletes of the Week: Maeve Hanlon and Dennis DeMarino.

Hanlon recently completed her senior season on the field hockey team that finished with a 4-6 record. She served as one of the four senior captains along with Leah Filimonczuk, Katie Dolan, and Mackenna Heesters, and ...

SPRINGFIELD, NJ — Cranford's Stephanie Bagniewski made history on Wednesday becoming the first female firefighter that the Springfield Fire Department has ever had.

With her history-making appointment and swearing-in, Bagniewski becomes the 82nd career firefighter in the department. The Springfield Fire Department has been organized as a career fire department since ...

CRANFORD - Cranford's annual Town-Wide Garage Sale, hosted by Project Home of Cranford, is scheduled to return on Saturday, April 10, rain or shine.

This is a great opportunity for residents to clean out items they no longer need and turn them into cash, and most importantly, help support township residents in need. Winter is the perfect time to start your spring-cleaning early ...

CRANFORD - If you love wings and have never tried Angel's Wings by Rich Pierce, you should probably get on that. 

No, it's not a restaurant - it's just a Cranford resident frying up chicken wings at his house for a good cause. The concept of "Angel's Wings" was created as a nod to his late son, Nicholas, who passed away roughly 20 years ago when ...

CRANFORD - Members of the Cranford Police Department, who also volunteer for Cranford Police Athletic League (PAL), received a generous donation on Tuesday from the Cranford Jaycees as part of their fundraising efforts for Track Friday.

The Cranford PAL established a memorial scholarship for Will DeGregorio this year after his courageous battle with ...

CRANFORD - Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine student Dianne Mancheno (DO ‘23) has been elected to the Latino Medical Student Association’s (LMSA) Northeast Region Leadership Board.

According to the release, Mancheno will serve as Chief Development Officer and will lead the organization’s new chapter development, as well as serve as a mentor ...

TRENTON, NJ -- Gov. Phil Murphy delivered his annual budget address on Tuesday by outlining a Fiscal Year 2022 Budget (FY2022) that includes investments to help New Jersey emerge from the pandemic stronger, fairer, and more resilient.

The governor said that he was proud to unveil this budget, which makes a full pension payment for the first time in more than a quarter of a ...

NEW JERSEY — “Good trends,” as Gov. Phil Murphy put it Monday, will allow New Jersey to expand its COVID-19 gathering limits.

The changes go into effect immediately. Religious services at churches, mosques and other houses of worship will be allowed to run at 50% capacity.

Also in effect, two parents/guardians will be allowed to attend indoor and outdoor college ...

NEW JERSEY — Around midday Monday, Gov. Phil Murphy signed three bills to legalize recreational marijuana-use and establish a regulated cannabis market within the next six months.

The legislation will allow for adults to legally possess as much as six ounces of marijuana and mean relief for anyone previously subject to arrest for petty marijuana possession.

“As of this moment, ...

RARITAN VALLEY, NJ -- The Raritan Valley Line Mayors’ Alliance is cheering the news from Washington about the long-delayed Gateway Hudson River tunnel project. 

The Biden Administration has reversed a policy by former President Trump that did not allow either New York or New Jersey to use loans borrowed from the federal government as part of each state’s funding commitment to ...

TRENTON, NJ -- Gov. Phil Murphy announced that loans received through the federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will not be subject to state taxes and that all expenses paid through PPP funds will be tax-deductible.

"This is another layer of protection our business owners need to help them get through this pandemic," Murphy said during his press briefing via ZOOM on ...

CRANFORD - 27 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Cranford since February 17, according to the Township of Cranford. Currently, there are 53 active cases in town.

The 27 new positives bring Cranford's total to 1,217 since the first reported case on March 17. With one new fatality (in the ...

CRANFORD - 26 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Cranford since February 11, according to the Township of Cranford. Currently, there are 53 active cases in town.

Five weeks ago, active cases in Cranford were at 125. The following three weeks, active case numbers were 93, 65, and 59. 

The 26 new ...

CRANFORD - As a World War II veteran, Peter Klein knows a thing or two about fighting back.

He persevered through the Battle of the Bulge, at Omaha Beach in Normandy, and in the forests of Germany. This time, however, he’s waging a war on something considerably smaller and far more deadly: the coronavirus. The 99-year-old Cranford resident is determined to live his ...

NEWARK, NJ — Months after signing expansive environmental justice legislative, Gov. Phil Murphy on Tuesday vowed New Jersey would put its money where its mouth is - investing over $130 million in clean transportation projects.

Murphy, who spoke about more green initiatives during a press conference this morning, also signed an executive order creating a climate action office and the New ...