CRANFORD - The Cranford High School baseball team was honored in a special way for their NJ Last Dance High School World Series Championship win. 

The Cougars paraded from Cranford High School to the front of Town Hall where they were welcomed by a couple hundred Cougar faithful and each player and coach received a key to the city. 

"This is a tremendous honor ...

CRANFORD - When Aiden Plick heard the Last Dance Tournament was announced, he told his father that Cranford was winning the whole thing, and he meant every word of that.

222 teams entered the tournament, and the easy money was that one of New Jersey’s powerhouse private schools such as Don Bosco Prep or Bergen Catholic would win it all. But those are just two of the dragons that ...

CRANFORD - Joe Meola finally got the championship he always wanted. 

Meola went 3-for-4 with five RBI to lead Cranford past Bergen Catholic, 10-0, in the North Region Last Dance World Series Championship on Wednesday at Skylands Stadium. 

"It's been such a journey," said Meola. "I love this team so much. It's been a dream of mine to go to a state ...

CRANFORD - Detective Derek Farbanec is now Sergeant Derek Farbanec. 

Due to COVID-19, the Cranford Police Department held a socially-distant promotion ceremony earlier in the month, which was limited to Farbanec's family, co-workers, and Township officials.

Sergeant Farbanec began his career with the Cranford Police Department in 1994 as a Communications ...

CRANFORD - Kids around Cranford have been getting "ticketed" by the Cranford Police Department, but not for the reasons you may think.

As of this past Tuesday, the Cranford Police Department began “ticketing” kids who are caught in the act of doing good. The "tickets" are actually a voucher for a free medium 7-Eleven Slurpee ...

CRANFORD -  The Girl Scouts of Junior Troop 40722 tied hundreds of colorful bows to the bridge railing on Springfield Avenue with a center banner that reads, “TIES THAT BIND” #CRANFORD STRONG.”

The bridge is located across from Girl Scout Park, which is across from the Cranford Canoe Club closest to the intersection of Springfield and Orange Avenues. The idea of the ...

WESTFIELD, NJ — For the past 30 days, James Leitner has been running 30 miles each day in Tamaques Park. On Thursday, he ran his last mile of his latest endurance fundraising effort after surpassing his $30,000 goal to fund a clean water system for the St. Elizabeth’s All-Girls School in Uganda.

The Scotch Plains resident and 27-year-old founder of MissionCleanWater ran a ...

CRANFORD - The New Jersey Primary Elections were held on July 7, with most voters statewide using the mail-in ballots that were sent to them several weeks ago. Cranford followed the trend, though some votes were cast at the six polling places open in the Township.

Four candidates, two Democrats and two Republicans, are vying for two seats held by Mayor Patrick Giblin and ...

CRANFORD - Three incumbents and one newcomer are running for three open seats on the Cranford Board of Education in the November election, according to the Union County Clerk’s Office.

The deadline for candidates to file with the Union County Board of Elections was Monday. Board of Education President Kurt Petschow, Vice President Lisa A. Carbone, and school board member ...

TRENTON, NJ – Education was a main focus of Gov. Phil Murphy’s COVID-19 press conference in Trenton on Friday afternoon.

Earlier, he announced that parents who want their children to do online learning only would not be required to send their kids to school.

“This is not going to be a normal school year. It is going to be hard. It will be a challenge to ...

TRENTON, NJ – The state’s new advertising campaign to raise awareness for COVID-19 testing and contact tracing is targeting, among others, the 30-and-under population because of the “risky behaviors” they have exhibited.

Health Commissioner Judy Persichilli said the “For Each Other, For Us All” campaign is debuting this week in advertising across TV, radio, ...

CAMDEN, NJ — With New Jersey’s rate of transmission (Rt) nearly doubling in a month - from 0.87 in early July to 1.48 today — Gov. Phil Murphy announced Monday that he will again tighten caps on indoor gatherings.

“We believe that some of this increase is attributable to the number of indoor house parties and other events which we have been seeing across the ...

TRENTON, NJ – Despite reporting that there were no in-hospital COVID-19 deaths during the 24-hour period ending 10:30 p.m. last night for the first time since March 10, Gov. Phil Murphy expressed disappointment over the increase in the positivity rate in the state during his COVID-19 press briefing in Trenton on Friday, July 31.

"The spot positivity rate for tests from July ...

NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – April Scelsa’s story mirrors those of thousands of small business owners whose nail salons, coffee houses and nutrition supplement boutiques wouldn’t have been able to re-open in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic without a little help.

Scelsa used money she got from the New Jersey Economic Development Agency (NJEDA) to purchase masks, gloves, ...

CRANFORD - Eight new confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Cranford since Wednesday, July 29, according to the Township of Cranford newsletter.

All eight of the new cases were residents livings in the community. No new cases of residents living in a Cranford long-term care facility were reported. The eight new cases now bring Cranford's total to ...

SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ – The Jewish Community Center (JCC)’s Camp Yachad has been a staple for the kids and families it served, as well as the most important revenue producer for the organization. For several months, it looked as if the camp might be canceled, but as JCC director Mike Goldstein said, after an “involved and thoughtful process,” the JCC found out that the ...